Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

A man and a woman rule the streets with their somewhat extraordinary skills. One is a hustler and the other is a thief. One day they are yanked out from their happy world of petty crimes.

An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane.

August 1945. In a remote mill in American-occupied Württemberg, a quintuple murder takes place. The miller and his wife, their two sons, and their daughter Irma were executed, and the daughter was then hanged and smeared with SS runes. However, a young refugee woman named Karin Katte, whose origins and history are unknown to anyone in the village, survived the massacre by chance. The investigation is led by Dave Gladbaker, a Jewish employee of the American secret service whose parents were murdered in a concentration camp. His investigations soon focus on Karin Katte, who Gladbaker suspects must have been the real target of the attack. Katte is suspected of being a former concentration camp guard.

Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of their own memories and a sense of understanding. They travel from the Planet of White Dust where war is constant, to the Planet of Blood and Swelling, a hybrid of their father’s body.

Tits and jokes! Some of the sexiest footage ever recorded of Lorissa McComas, Dani Ashe and Glori-Anne Gilbert! A movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. Pleny of laughs, and we need 'em!

Japanese horror movie from 1998.

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. After Rumi's death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi's poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi's ecstatic poems.

The 1998 Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe's production of the Viennese musical Elisabeth

Ayushman Bhava is a 1998 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Suresh Vinu and produced by Ambili Pravachambalam. The film stars Jayaram, Divya Unni, Mohini and Innocent in lead roles. The film had musical score by Johnson and A. T. Ummer.

A struggling Degas finds inspiration for his art in Marie, a young ballerina. Degas helps Marie tap into the talent she doesn't believe she has while she convinces Degas to persevere despite criticism from the art establishment. An artist and model, they become friends and find in each other what they need to follow their dreams.

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE unfolds inside an Iranian divorce court, providing a subtle and intimate look at the lives of women in a country stereotypically associated with fanaticism and oppression. Astute and beautifully observed, the film reveals the ingenuity and humour with which Iranian women negotiate the restrictions of their society.

Wiley is a gay virgin who spends his nights with a large collection of porno. Johnny's his best friend but he's straight, though does admit to a little experimenting. What to do? what to do?

A dentist's wife conspires the murder of her husband. The murder is carried out by a twisted serial killer that stalks and kills exotic women. Unknown to all are the dentist's connections to the Mafia. Now the Police, a Private investigator, and the Mafia hit men are all in on the chase.

Seijuu Sentai Gingaman Super Video: The Secret Fruit of Wisdom is the Super Video of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman.

4 Modern Love Stories with 4 Beautiful Gravure Girls. Could you ask for anything more?

"Je danse devant toi..." or the ceremony of farewell. Leaving the other person is also a little like saying goodbye to oneself. Isabelle Martin sends this letter in the form of a visual poem to a lost soul mate and dances on "until [her] socks wear out".

4 stupid aliens want to steal the earth' s core. But Captain Cosmotic, the worlds strongest hero, is hard to defeat!!

After years, Eric decides to track down his mother.

A short drama directed by Joseph Neulight.

One of a pair of piano-playing hands is jealous of the other.

The killing of a political leader shatters the peace of a small Mexican town. MANCO, the brother of the murdered presidential candidate knows the killer and sets out to exact his revenge. Arriving to investigate the assassination is special agent AMIGO from the Mexican Intelligence. Amigo quickly strikes up a friendship with a local hotel owner who fills him in on the town's seedy characters and gives Amigo a Single Action revolver. The stage is set for Amigo and Manco to join forces and take down the powerful and dangerous CAMARO family responsible for the murder and the corruption of the town. To gain the confidence of Camaro, Amigo breaks his top henchman out of jail. Amigo is welcomed into the Camaro gang. Camaro soon discovers Amigo's connection with Manco and plots to take him out. The situation reaches a boiling point on the US/Mexican border when Amigo, Manco, and Camaro meet for an old-fashioned Western shootout where truth and justice prevail in one single action.

Bianca is cool, confident, successful at work and proud of her independence. For her, men are annoying bores - she only has an affair for the sake of convenience. Until one day the painter Ion makes her an immoral offer at a private view...

In industrial Lyon of the early '50s, a widowed bar-owner listens to radio crime serials, reads detective magazines, and grieves for her daughter, killed two years earlier in a mineshaft accident. Consumed by her loss and unwilling to face the truth, the bar-owner becomes suspicious of the grim patrons in her drab tavern, seeking someone to blame as she contemplates revenge.

Eisenstein is celebrated either as the last Leonardo da Vinci of modernity or attacked as Faustus, Faustus who made a pact with the devil. Whichever is the case, neither friends nor foes are able to resist the powerful draw of Eisenstein's work. He was a person of complexity who was understood in very different ways, as a generous cosmopolitan and a stingy hermit, a cynic and yet a highly sensitive, vulnerable being. The film deals with a number of phases in Eisenstein's life, and tries to get away from the orthodox image of him by using new material to shed a different light on his biography.

A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal the truth the more uncertainty he discovers.

Kajal, a college professor, witnesses the rape and subsequent death of a female student. She reports it to the police and identifies the killer, Shishupal. But the police are reluctant to take any action as the killer is the younger brother of the city's most powerful and influential industrialist and gangster, Singhania. When she organizes a student and teacher protest, Shishupal is arrested and held in prison. Kajal finds her advocate husband, Mahendra, who is handicapped and walks with a help of a crutch, supportive and encouraging. An infuriated Singhania has Kajal raped and killed in front of Mahendra's eyes. Mahendra, devastated and humiliated sets about to avenge the killing of his wife by taking Singhania to court, only to have the case dismissed. Mahendra then sets upon to avenge his wife's death by deciding to kill the Singhania brothers and his gang one by one - but how is a handicapped person, who is unable to defend himself, carry out such a mammoth task on his own?

At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.

A father returns home after leaving his little girl alone.

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black, white, Puerto Rican, Yugoslavian, Asian American, biracial. They are straight, gay and bisexual. What they share is a need to express their own interpretations of what American culture is and could be and a belief that this work is made particularly powerful through the media.

A voluptuous secretary is an orphan and instead has been raised by a guardian. The guardian demanded sex in return. He came to her office one day to ask her if she could help his son be hired. The secretary and son develop feelings for one another. The father finds out, is angry and disciplines her physically. The son comes to realize that his father and the secretary are sexually active

In desperation Elliot and Oz decide to reply to a telephone dating ad to kickstart their non-existent love lives. Their Prayers are answered when two gorgeous girls agree to meet them on a blind date. Whilst fanning the flames of passion the two boys find themselves playing with fire! A fun filled roller coaster ride begins as the boys get more than they bargained for in their search for love.

"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused an uproar, due to the book's endless "Satanic" parade of rape, murder, sacrilege.

Incorporating never before-seen archival footage, home movies and interviews with family members, journalists and law enforcement officials, PABLO ESCOBAR: KING OF COCAINE tells the story of the twisted Robin Hood who founded the Medellin cartel cocaine smuggling organization and became the first billionaire criminal in South America. This piece is part of The Learning Channel series "Legends," hosted by Bryant Gumbel.

"Walking Around was indirectly inspired by my frequent personal displacements that had been occurring since I left Poland, in 1988. Since then I have lived in Italy, Canada and in Texas." - Kinga Araya

"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations of fast-fading pasts and personal mythologies, and reflections on the anxious states created by the body's fragile claims on time and space. It's about being a stranger in your own skin. Panic Bodies perfects the phantom quality of any good work about mourning, but it is not reducible to that. It is also enlivened by the intimacy that comes from having made a spectacle of personal secrets." (Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Xtra)

1998 release

Anu, a dreamy-eyed and middle-class girl, falls in love with Sugawto, a political activist, who is arrested. After his release Anu realizes that she is an entity to him. Will she leave indifferent Sugawto?

Lionel has a way with women. His sexual exploits make his friends jealous. One of them, Alain, challenges him to seduce a beautiful woman picked at random, fall in love with her and spend a night with her — but abstain from making love.

Will, a widower struggling to cope with his wife Ruth's death, is confronted by the harsh reality of trying to cope with grief, loneliness, helplessness and the responsibility of taking care of Ruth's pet cow, Tulip.

This is the real story of Frans Van Reeth, a small time crook who spent most of his life in jail. In an hour and a half we learn all about the love of his life, his inmates, his adventures in and out of prison and the way he ends up.

Film made as part of the campaign to fight AIDS, launched by the Ministry of Health.

Bhoomi Thayiya Chochhala Maga is a 1998 Kannada film directed by S. V Rajendra Singh Babu and produced by Jai Jagadish. The film stars Shivaraj Kumar, Ramesh Aravind, Srinath and Vijayalakshmi in lead roles. Music was composed by V Manohar.

A man and his wife are frustrated with the responsibilities of taking care of their family. However, Borun tries to keep the family from falling apart.

Santu is murdered in the hands of a corrupt minister's drug-peddling son when he protests against the sale of drugs on the college campus. As the law enforcers turn a deaf ear to Raja's pleas, he decides to avenge his brother's death.

Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax. An award-winning hybrid of documentary and drama that lets teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate. Trevor is a typical seventeen year old dosser living on a housing estate in the North of England. He smokes ‘blow’, joyrides and burgles houses, and also writes poetry. His muse is his next door neighbour, sixteen year old Amie. Every morning he works on a poem that will express his feelings and maybe win Amie’s heart.

Live performance clips are combined with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews in which the performers candidly share their life experiences, offer insights into the art of comedy, and discuss the obstacles facing gays and other minorities within the entertainment industry. Diverse in their approaches these performers share a talent for humor which speaks to universal human experience. What emerges is a hilarious and inspiring film about the power of laughter to communicate, heal, and transcend social prejudices.

A successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who work in a brothel housed in the school building and who sometimes force Linos to beg for money. The gang is planning a "big score", the theft of the antiquities of Plato's Academy, but Theodora's reluctance, combined with the timely intervention of the police, cancel the plan.

Behind the stage action. Three ballet girls. A janitor using rough manners to approach the girls, without success. He gets advice from a colleague to treat the girls with more respect.

A young unemployed saxophone player Boki is pursued by debt collector agency, whose secretary tries to save him. Having reached his dead end, the racketeers give him a twelve hours deadline to find the money. He calls everyone he could remember and unsuccessfully begs for help. The time inevitably runs...

Swedish filmmaker Mikael Kristersson directs this austere yet beautiful experimental documentary about two European falcons. Shot over the course of two years, Kristersson manages to fashion a narrative without the use of voice-overs or music, showing the falcons as they forage for food and tend to their eggs. Much of this film, though, is spent viewing the world from the falcons' vantage point -- high up on a 13th century church steeple, watching the groundskeeper tending to the village cemetery and the choir boys growing tired of a long religious procession. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

Events come through medieval haze in a fantozmagorik city. Under the rocky roofs and the murky wall a frightening mixture of wildlife with fragile hatreds with renewed love of death. Metaphors have to say that power abuse has the same essence but different performances.