Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Experimental mash-up of circus and sideshow footage.

Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.

"Battle Ball" is the new hot thing in the world of underground sports gambling. Motocross teams armed with metal claws and body armor fight their way to a caged car used as a moving goal. Led by corrupt bookmakers who want to up the blood and death to attract more people, one man decides to take a stand the only way he can: he takes the sport by storm and begins on a path of carnage and blood that can only bring the league down.

Masmaram is a 1997 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Thampi Kannanthanam, starring Suresh Gopi and Ruthika Singh in the lead roles. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Sathru Vamsam

The tumultuous affair between a young man and a woman twenty-five years his senior.

It's Good to Talk is a 1997 British short film directed by Roger Goldby. It follows five people who have trouble with telephones. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Ted is a depraved serial killer...until he meets Leah. Then he becomes a real monster. Together the two of them go on a bloody, murder-happy rampage of unparalleled brutality, stalking then slaughtering their victims with a bone-chilling psychotic intensity!

Relationships are strained to breaking point by an obsession with conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's assassination.

A romance novelist has no inspiration, and uses the erotic adventures of people around her as such. She gets drawn into them.

A huge fortune suddenly descends on Taher, making him suspicious and mistrustful of everyone who approaches him, especially his wife and his sister, fearing that they want to exploit him.

Queen Silvia of Sweden tells a little about her life in an animation made of stamps.

Bharathi, who works for a rich man, and Kannama, the daughter of a rich landlord, fall in love. Kannama commits suicide by burning herself as she cannot marry Bharathi because of their caste difference.

It's Felix birthday and his parents are at the door. Felix escapes through the backdoor and celebrates his special day like he wants: as a techno DJ in a dance club. One of his installed special effects is scaring the visitors that much, that they panic, leaving the club in a rush. The owner of the club gives Felix one more chance to pay back for the damage. Felix shall be the tour manager for Leon Rippy, a formerly well-known country musician. This might not be an easy task in times where country music seems to be kind of an antique thing. However Felix accepts the deal and an adventurous on-the-road experience throughout Germany begins.

After breaking up with her fiancé, a young French engineer gets closer to a fellow agronomist with whom she had a brief affair ten years earlier.

Funeral assistant Eddie Hartmann leads an unglamorous life. Eddie is a tough guy, but an even tougher drinker. His wife goes down on him in public and Eddie dreams of killing her in cold blood. But he doesn't have the final determination.

A rookie cop faces a moral dilemma when he discovers corruption within the system.

Mumsie is a stylish documentary that explores the bitter-sweet relations between mothers and daughters. Illustrated through stories that candidly expose wry truths in a hauntingly beautiful and economical style.

Driven with ambition and handsome looks, Edelbert is very optimistic to marry a rich girl. He pursues other women in their province, not minding his neighbor Elena who is in love with him but is not rich. One day, Elena accidentally overhears Edelbert that she is not the girl for him because of her status. Hurt, Elena leaves town. Soon after, Edelbert realizes Elena is important to him and started looking for her.

Former coroner Dr. Steve Wojeck returns to Toronto after 21 years working at a clinic in the Congo. While he reunites with his family, he gets embroiled with the plight of a family of refugees from Guatemala.

Restaurant owner Margot often reproaches her dentist husband Leo for his irresponsible and disorganized ways, reaching a point where Margot finds no reason for them to stay together. Margot wants out of their marriage and their temporary separation becomes difficult for their two kids Patricia and Pauline but a delight to Mrs. Perez, Margot’s meddling mother in-law who never liked her. Their estrangement eventually ends in annulment, a trying process for Margot who has to derogate Leo’s character in court to win her case. But after all, Leo still loves Margot despite her hurtful testimonies.

In the summer of 1995, as every year, the patients and staff of "La Borde" psychiatric clinic rehearse their summer play for a performance on August 15th. The film records the ups and downs of the venture as rehearsals go by. Yet, it also delicately captures the day-to-day existence, the seemingly insignificant details, the loneliness and the fatigue but also the collective joy and the close attention that all these people pay to each other.

Sue is trying to get over a break-up with Dale. She goes out to get coffee in her nightgown and meets him and his new girlfriend, Sabrina, in the convenience store. Mortified she leaves and finally accepts an invitation from a lesbian friend to go to an all-girl bar that night. She's surprised to see Sabrina there dancing with women.

A brief documentary about Cronenberg made by the BBC to precede a showing of 'Videodrome' on television.

While riding the bus one day, night watchman Jack Crawford gets distracted by a beautiful girl and has his gun stolen. To get it back, he enlists the help of local wise guy, Eddie, and their search reveals the bizarre characters lurking in the strange underworld of a sleepy New Jersey suburb.

Recorded live at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, over May 22-24 of 1997, Fleetwood Mac performs their greatest hits – including the classics 'Rhiannon', 'Everywhere', 'Dreams', 'Don't Stop' and 'Landslide' – and several new songs.

Sarah, an archaeologist and museum curator, is good at recovering and restoring treasures. One day, a very important treasure map is stolen from the museum, but the map is in Latin and the guys who seized it cannot read it.

Jean Corolère and Françoise Laurent were prisoners in New France. They escaped the death penalty as Corolère accepted the executioner's job and married Laurent.

Oat is a musician, who accompanies his grandfather to an island to look for his long lost love. To their great dismay, they find that she has passed away.

Third part of the Elements series. A world without dialogue, which is developed with the motif of "Earth". The camera submerged on the ground continues to descend like an elevator, and strange images develop one after another. It is a work that shows the "shadow" of human beings like a panorama. A special style that transcends the time and space of the story and shows 80 scenes in one cut.

Tv movie about writer Jan Arends loosely based on his life and writings

A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.

Graciela grows tiresome & jealous of her husband Diego's dog "Ixchel". Ixchel is pampered and always given the attention she wants. When Graciela leaves Diego for good because of Ixchel; she ends up stuck outside of town and that is where she meets the individual who's been killing people all-around there and it is someone or something unexpected..

Three men steal a car.

Mr. Vincent is the character study of a struggling songwriter who obsesses over the women in his life. After his wife leaves him he meets Lisa who becomes his mentor, muse and lover, but lies, betrayal and finally threats gets in their way and relationships spiral out of control.

Follows a blackmailer who exploits the weaknesses of powerful villains and strips them of their wealth.

Out of the failures of Major Dread, General Fear takes matters into his own hands and forms a fail-proof plan to finally defeat Commander Kellie and the Superkids and irradicate SKTV. Deception is the tool used as General Fear places a spy at SKTV and uses his all-powerful S.W.O.R.D. machine in order to control every device and every word spoken.

Antonio takes a hit on his head when he's out to buy a jar of mushrooms for his wife, and loses his memory. He reappears five years later unaware that time has passed.

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.

Host Jack Perkins (of the A&E "Biography" series) takes to the skies to show us an aerial view of the state of Maine. From rocky coastlines to northern forests and everything in between, this breathtaking documentary presents a truly unique picture of one of the most wild and beautiful regions of the United States.

When Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic experiences he suffers leaves him wondering if he should have remained silent.

Third film in the V-Cinema Girlboss trilogy.

In October 1954, a few days before the departure of the French from Pondicherry to the new Indian Republic, Stanislas Charvin, a young European born in India but raised in France by his grandmother, arrives, impatient, with the sole objective of bringing his mother's remains back to France. Through this initiatory journey, he will find a hated father, meet love, learn terrible revelations about his mother's existence and discover a world more modern than he thought.

After he's nearly shot at by hunters, Wirral the Squirrel is rescued by balloon-riding Froggo and both fly to a tropical island, where other rescued animals take refuge.

Jerry, an undercover agent, has successfully infiltrated a bigtime drug syndicate. He gets assigned, however, to liquidate Roselle, the lone witness to a murder. In a dilemma, Jerry has to protect Roselle without blowing his cover.

A parody trailer for a movie that combines the characters from Sling Blade and Swingers.

The life of a young gangster -- who has an affair with his boss's wife -- no longer seems certain. However, he turns out to be tougher than his adversaries.

An escaped convict Ashok, (Jeetendra) seeks solace in the flat of a rich woman named Asha (Somy Ali) who has just killed her husband, Keshup (Om Puri). Since both of them know each other's terrifying secrets, they decide to help one another. Ashok helps Asha get rid of the body and then asks her why she killed her husband. Asha tells the tale of her being forced to marry Keshup and of being abused, raped, and molested after marriage. Her parents ignore her cries for help so she turns to her previous lover (Avinash Wadhsvan) for help. Keshup in turn became suspicious of Asha's loyalty to him so he would spy on her. His plans are altered, though, when work takes him to Madras. After Keshup leaves, Asha calls Avinash to her house and tells him her story of the rotten marriage. It is then that Keshup realizes that he forgot something and heads back to their flat. He catches Avinash and Asha together and flies into a rage. He tries to kill Asha and Avinash escapes to inform the police.

Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a magic fantasy world in order to survive living in the real one. She thinks she is a fairy who came on a mission and got caught in this world. She travels by bus every day. At the bus-stop, there is a "web camera" which records images and puts them into the Internet. Santiago is a scientist who works in an international research project to detect signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a lonely man who lives with his dog and his computer. Rosalía finds she has some extra-sensory powers and thinks three young women she knows are fairies. They will remarkably influence her life. She also feels the need to meet her father, whom she has not seen since she was 8.

Named for the colonnades of the ancient Lyceum, the film juxtaposes industrial arcades in golden morning light with lush images of streams and wooded glens. Empty of human figures yet rich in presence, Beavers composes landscapes that evoke both 19th-century painting and a quiet sense of spiritual immanence.

Centering on a girl who has learned she is pregnant, the film traces the intersecting paths of several young people across a night of the full moon.

Summer 1994, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two civil wars in only three years has torn the city apart and destroyed it. The town is split into a Croatian majority in the west and a Muslim majority locked in the east. An invisible wall divides the two areas. The EU appoints German social democrat Hans Koschnick as municipal administrator of the town in the hope of rekindling a sense of community there.

K.Veeru's First Film

The suburb that is a society within a society, a place where young guys do anything for respect. A place where criminality and violence is a part of life. This movie centralizes around Malik, a guy without family and land of origin, and who has made crime and violence a part of his life. Both to win respect, and to support himself.

A drama about the blossoming romantic relationship between a man in 40's and a girl of age 18.

Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out.