Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

Live from the State Opera Under the Linden, Berlin 1999. Choreographed by Patrice Bart.

The distortion of the universe revives the great emperor Zolder. Zolder sends space beasts as assassins to invade Earth. One after another, people's souls are pulled out and sacrificed... One day after such an incident, the owner, Mai Tenkuji (Rena Sugimoto), is given the power of light by an alien and gains the ability to transform into a Cosmo Angel. Now the battle between light and darkness was about to begin.

A love story between a young, policeman and a Chinese immigrant girl, who speak no common language.

Bowie Live in Paris. Song Listing: Life on Mars?, Thursday's Child, Something in the Air, Word on a Wing, Can't Help Thinking About Me, China Girl, Always Crashing in the Same Car, Survive, Drive-In Saturday, Changes, Seven, Repetition, I Can't Read, The Pretty Things are Going to Hell, and Rebel Rebel.

The Real Power of Prayer is a compelling and exciting look through the people with true faith which reveal how the effect of fervent prayer. The skeptics will be convinced once they discover the wonders behind the power of prayer that produces results and changes lives. Acts of faith and consecration brought to light, proving the undeniable ability of prayer to bring hope, salvation and love for those in need.

In How Do They Make Money?, shiny discs dance their way through the mint, emerging as brand new pennies! A film without words.

Police officer, struggling to bust open an organized crime syndicate, eventually has to deal with the fact that his son is implicated in their activities.

Berlin, December 31, 1999, the countdown to the new millennium is on. On this magical night, radio presenter Zippo calls on his listeners to make all their good intentions come true by midnight. And gets things rolling. There's ex-con and newly qualified bus driver Toto, who drives the pregnant Russian woman and a dead Nigerian drug courier through the night. Toto's prison buddy Frank is planning a deal worth a million marks. And a jealous Irishman is determined to kill his wife. All the threads of this strange night ultimately come together with Zippo...

Bruce Lee 'Famous Families' Documentary

Once found all over Africa, indiscriminate hunting and enthusiasm for decorative rhino-horn daggers has led to near extinction for the black rhino. Thanks to the passage of tight legislation and the rise of vigilant protection, black rhino numbers are finally rising. This film documents efforts at Tanzania's Mkomazi Game Reserve. It is narrated by legendary British actor Edward Fox with an original score by Nikolas Labrinakos

Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse and a long list of curious ideas, and his wife and children must often bear the brunt of his eccentricities. Roger works as a reporter, a job he doesn't like which doesn't pay especially well, either. One day, Roger learns an area business association is sponsoring a contest for a family that can break a world record, with the grand prize being a new car. Suddenly, Roger gets a brainstorm -- if his son can open and shut a door 40,000 times in 24 hours, the car will be theirs. 15-year-old Michel, however, is not at all happy to have been drafted into this new responsibility, especially when dad builds a practice door in the backyard and finds a trainer to teach Michel how to open and close it with greatest efficiency.

Harland William's 1999 stand up special

After 25 years of the Project Tiger Scheme operating in the Madhya Pradesh, these magnificent animals have become more trusting, permitting an extraordinary intimate film which follows them from sunrise to sunset, in monsoon rains and in shimmering heat

A romantic comedy about 30-year-old Leo and a 40-year-old, pregnant single mother of three, Maarit.

killer.berlin.doc combines a documentary realism focussing on Berlin with a fictional narrative about ten people playing a game of 'killer'. In the game, no-one knows the others' identify and each is both perpetrator and victim. This cyclical element and the seemingly random exploration of different characters is reminiscent of the non-linear pathways of interactives.

Led by actor Martin Sheen, in November 1998, more than 7,000 students, teachers, churchgoers, activists, and former military personnel met outside the gates of the Ft. Benning army base in Georgia where the School of Americas (SOA) was located. Thousands risked arrest and imprisonment by crossing the line onto the base in the largest act of civil disobedience in the U.S. til that time

In a poor neighborhood of a city, a humble couple suffers from problems. The hatred, suffering, anguish and despair of a woman abused by her alcoholic and violent husband who after each beating swears eternal love.

Documentary about Beate Uhse.

Adam Lewis finds himself unexpectedly stood up at his own wedding. Now, three years later, Adam cannot attend a wedding without becoming ill, much to the dismay of his new girlfriend, Holly. Eventually, the events surrounding the wedding put Adam and Holly's relationship to the test.

"My heart belongs to daddy / Majn harts gehert tsum tatn" - the same old love song. But now it is actress Basia Frydman who sings it in Yiddish accompanied by her musicians at home in Kjell Westling's living room. And Tate, that's Basia's lovely old dad Simon, doing his work in a hairdressing salon.

An old barber finds himself at a loss when called upon to shave an unusually jittery customer. When all attempts at idle everyday chatter fail to calm the man, the barber desperately falls back on his last resort: to tell the only secret he knows.

A fairytale story in which love and humanity are not just words, but become a force that words cannot describe. You won't find three identical stars in the sky, three identical stones on the earth, nor three identical beings among the wizards - the old and wise Habra, the suggestive Hobrix and the beautiful Harex watched over an imperfect, emotion-ridden human race until malice and love entered their lives as well.

Documentary based on the figure of Manuel Agujetas (Manuel de los Santos Pastor 1939-2015), mythical cantaor and one of the last representatives of the Flamenco de Jerez school. Essential figure of flamenco.

A female police detective goes searching for a serial killer, finds lesbian vampires.

Have you ever wondered what happens to Autons between programmes — when they're "resting"? This is the story of one such Auton and his search for a career after the BBC threw him out onto the streets... and how he found BBV!

Tunisian-born Myriam, a Sephardic beauty, lives in Montreal. Théo, her grad-student boyfriend, breaks up with her, and she's desolate. She house-sits for a friend for several weeks: during that time, her father arrives looking for her after 20 years, Théo realizes he misses her, and she meets the quirky Lou, a poetry-spouting squatter who introduces himself by clipping a lock of her hair during a movie; he later breaks into her flat to chat with her. She's angry with her father, confused by Théo, and delighted with Lou, whose free spirit and undemanding attention inspire her. Working out her feelings about her father gives her to key to decide what to do next.

Nacho Vigalondo himself teaches us a film lesson with only two elements: a cow and a "batball"

It is a feature film based on human life. It mainly focuses on Mongolian customs, daily life, and how people adapt to the harsh conditions of the Gobi. It shows the precious quality of loving each other. A young man who lives with his mother has a wife and a child. The camel's wool has turned blue and gray. The Gobi people are truly kind-hearted people.

Hong Kong flick

Jason Kuller, the comedian from New York's Catskill Mountains, performs his material on an intimate stage in this riotous special.

When Alkis is released from prison, he accidentally meets a girl and falls in love with her. She will return to her rich friend and Alkis finds his old collaborators, with whom he organizes another robbery. But when they enter the bank ...

Revisiting the Omnibus series from the "golden age" of television. This live 90-minute weekly program hosted by Alastair Cooke brought an extraordinary world to people's living rooms with its mix of drama, dance, music, science, art, history, and opera.

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Rimini, there lived a beautiful princess named Nicoletta, who ruled alongside her older brother Riccardo after the death of their parents. This cheerful and witty princess, though wise for her age, foolishly fell in love with a song about the perfect and universally admired King of Salerno. Riccardo, like a loving brother, went to offer her hand to the king, regardless of what he thought of the idea. However, the proud king, spoiled by his mother, insultingly rejected her, saying that she was not worthy of his beauty, but he did not know that Nicoletta's other qualities included stubbornness and determination.

A Malayalam film starring Babu Antony.

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After he discovers that his sales are being sabotaged by two veteran salesmen, the newest hire at a pet supply store sets out for revenger.

A young artist's success with controversial paintings clashes with his father's political hopes.

Short animated film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an oprhan boy and a small robot, both alone, exploited by neglectful grown-ups.

A lyrical documentary about the fundamentally harmful nature of money.

Katariina Lillqvist's puppet animation is a ballad about 18th century St. Petersburg, Catherine the Great's magnificent courtyard and the dim taverns of the suburbs.

Two couples each know their relationships are over but don’t have the guts to end them.

Relying on the iconography specific to the 1990s, with the wonder drug Viagra and erotic phone lines of the "8989" type in their place, "Diabolique 3" is a fantasy farce about a dysfunctional couple's relationship. The wife is the one who takes the initiative, although her best and cosmopolitan friend advises her to leave her dull, conformist and, above all, sexually apathetic husband.

Trapped in a miserable existence by his mentally unwell mother, things turn upside down for Phillip when he accidentally comes into possession of a ring with mysterious powers and dark connections.

Remembering Stanley Kubrick

Terezka is in love with Antonínek, a shepherd boy. However, her father, an old blacksmith, does not approve of their love, as he would rather see his daughter married to a decent man who could light a fire with his breath and to whom he could pass on his smithy. Poor Antonínek has no choice but to seek help from a dwarf living in the rocks. The dwarf gives him a bellows, and in the end, everything turns out well.

Canada's king of visual alchemy teams up with France's mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of cinematic abstraction. Tactile and textured, luscious and luminescent, Two Pictures is a singular statement embodying a powerful dichotomy. This is a film that is simultaneously about nothing and about everything.

Serial killer breaks out of jail, goes looking for the guy who caused his arrest, has a lot of fun along the way.

A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot which explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram.

Members of an opera company performing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" find their lives parallel those of the characters.

Two friends, Radha and Gita, take a short journey on their way home. Gita decides to give her mother's saree to Radha, for her mother.

As she approaches 30, Anne Buridan becomes anxious over what she has so far managed to make of her life. She decides the time has come to sort out her head and unravel the muddle that has resulted from her desires, her dreams and her work for Radio Ultime, a radio station she has founded with her closest friends. To that end, she attaches a sensor to her forehead and sets to work...

An early film by Noboru Iguchi.

A serial killer murders people staying at a boarding house in this shot-on-video obscurity.

Swapno Niye is a 1999 Indian Bengali film, directed by Bishnu Palchaudhuri.