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Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | France

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being “unwanted” parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce.

Director: Bob Dylan
Stars: Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Bob Dylan on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975; concert footage, documentary interviews and bizarre improvised character scenes.

Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Mary Valenti
Genre: Horror, Short
Country: USA

While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated; making way to kill his friends.

Director: Herz Frank
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Soviet Union

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don’t; we can only guess from their faces.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Kid Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Blue Lu Barker
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A look at the spirit of New Orleans.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | Switzerland | USA

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy “Medea” (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, she arranges a meeting with an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is serving a prison term for killing her own children. Features Mercouri performing “Medea” in the original, intercut with Burstyn narrating her crime.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan | France

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.

Director: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Stars: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school.

Director: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson
Stars: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

NORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks and the railroads, NORTHERN LIGHTS brings back a forgotten era of American history and evokes the austere beauty of the Northern Plains.

Director: Karel Zeman
Stars: Ludek Munzar, Jaroslav Moucka, Christian Brückner
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia | West Germany

A young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer’s strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.

Director: Lordan Zafranovic
Stars: Frano Lasic, Milan Strljic, Tanja Poberznik
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Three young men – a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew – are the best friends in pre-WW2 Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Nazis and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Belgium | West Germany

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it’s home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Director: Jerry Thorpe
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Jane Alexander, Ned Beatty
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A woman fights her ex-husband for custody of her children when he sues for custody after learning that she is living in a relationship with another woman.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Koko, Penny Patterson, Saul Kitchener
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson’s current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.

Director: Silvio Narizzano
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as To Sir, with Love (1967), comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael (Glenda Jackson), who tries to reach out and give to her pupils, juvenile delinquents, at a London alternative school.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series’ significance.

Director: Tage Danielsson
Stars: Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden

Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Country: UK

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Director: Erwin Keusch, Christian Weisenborn
Stars: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Burkhard Driest
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

Herzog is one of the most important German auteur filmmakers and certainly also one of the most passionate. For his film projects, he does not shy away from even the most extreme conditions and often leads himself and his team to the edge of physical and mental resilience.

Director: Don Letts
Stars: Soo Catwoman, Steve Strange, Robin Banks
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

Documentary on the London punk-rock scene, circa ’78.

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that’s in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. They try Ingrid, Christa’s friend, who tries to help, but the school rejects the money. When tragedy strikes Werner, Hans helps Christa bolt to a collective in Portugal. Ingrid visits her; their relationship makes the collective nervous, so she returns to Germany and ceases living in hiding. The police are still looking for her and so is a witness to the robbery, Lena, a bank clerk. Lena’s interest brings Christa’s second awakening.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel
Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: West Germany

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | West Germany

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry ‘Dutch’ Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy | West Germany

An orchestra assmbles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.

Director: Howard Smith
Stars: Milt Moss
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: USA

Compilation of man inventing strange contraptions in the 30’s through 50’s.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Jennifer O’Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

A clairvoyant woman discovers a skeleton in a wall in her husband’s house, and seeks to find the truth about what happened to the victim.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy | France

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it’s soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK

France, 1801. Due to a minor, perceived slight mild-mannered Lieutenant d’Hubert is forced into a duel with the hot-headed, irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels, spanning several years.

Director: James Benning
Stars: Serafina Bathrick, Ted Brady, Barbara Frankel
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Canada

One of the most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning’s 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences, each offering some sort of image/sound pun or paradox. At once a crypto-narrative with an abstract, peekaboo storyline and a fractured, painterly study of the American midwestern landscape, 11×14 points toward the creation of a new, non-literary but populist cinema.

Director: Georgiy Daneliya
Stars: Vakhtang Kikabidze, Mher Mkrtchyan, Elena Proklova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | Canada

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Canada

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler’s visit to Italy in May 1938.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Country: West Germany

Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom’s only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Fernando Rey, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabel Mestres
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.

Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

Journey into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.

Director: Richard Benner
Stars: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada

A story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

Director: Wolfgang Büld
Stars: Gaye Advert, Jack Airport, Arturo Bassick
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: West Germany

A contemporary documentary covering the Great British punk rock explosion of 1977.

Director: Hector Babenco
Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Ana Maria Magalhães, Milton Gonçalves
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece

To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

This movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen’s band) radio. Paul LeMat is the local CB coordinator who has time for little else in his life. His father, Roberts Blossom is a sour old man who is nice on the radio. Charles Napier is a trucker hospitalized after an accident, with hilarious consequences.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Douchka, Jean-Noël Picq
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies’ bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy

The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.

Director: Moshé Mizrahi
Stars: Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she’s a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He’s a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kurosh Afsharpanah, Mehdi Montazar
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

The life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

Director: James Dearden
Stars: Richard O’Brien, Charlotte Cornwell
Genre: Horror, Short, Thriller
Country: UK

A man toils at building an elaborate contraption. As he builds you begin to determine what exactly it is he is building. It is a mousetrap, only the mouse it would catch would have to be the same size as him. Perhaps that is the point.

Director: Charles Eames, Ray Eames
Stars: Philip Morrison
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man’s hand.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Giorgos Danis
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | France | West Germany

On New Year’s Eve, a bourgeoisie group of hunters finds the frozen body of a long dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it, which reveals their sins from the war and leads to their symbolic punishment.

Director: Philip Saville
Stars: Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK

The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel
Genre: Short
Country: France

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Annie Girardot, Hardy Krüger, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | West Germany

A mother discovers that, after the worst (her daughter is kidnapped, then killed), there can be something even worse.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people’s behavior.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will let them alone.

Director: Robert Benton
Stars: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Milos Frýba, Jaroslav Vozáb
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia

A mockumentary-style adaptation of the gothic 1764 novel of the same name, which includes Terry Gilliam-like animations throughout.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: India

Wazed Ali Shah was the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, had sent General Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. While pressure was mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, Ali Shah composes poems and listens to music, secluded in his palace. The court was of no help, as exemplified by nobles Mir and Mirza, who, ignoring the situation of their country and all of their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless parties of chess.

Director: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Kaori Momoi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

Director: Claude Goretta
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland | France | West Germany

A reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany | USA

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Stars: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK | West Germany

German commander Captain Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) refuses to lie for him.

Director: Basilio Martín Patino
Stars: Claudio Rodríguez, Vicente Copete, Antonio López
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain

Exploration of a particularly dark zone of the Francoism along with three executioners of death sentences still active in the Spain of the early seventies. Beyond the allegation against capital punishment, the documentary explores the personal story of the three men and their ways of understanding the trade they perform, those executed by them in the garotte or the crimes that are punished. An implacable reflection on power and an atrocious portrait of the society in which those hangmen operate.

Director: Janusz Majewski
Stars: Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland

One of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Housekeeper Rita Gorgon, who has an affair with her employer, is accused of murdering his teenage daughter.

Director: Jean Beaudin
Stars: Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Marthe Thierry
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.

Director: Tengiz Abuladze
Stars: Lika Kavzharadze, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams…

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France

Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek help. She goes to a creepy manor and is welcomed by the owner, Henri Vergennes, and his butler, Colas. Alice is invited to spend the night in the house. The next morning, Alice can’t find the two men from he previous night but finds her car surprisingly fixed. She tries to leave but cannot find the gate. She stops the car and walks around the wall trying to find an exit but becomes increasingly worried with what she finds.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Slavko Stimac, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A troubled young boy is sent to a juvenile detention center where he meets a teacher who has an unusual pedagogical approach.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA

A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Susan Penhaligon
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands | Belgium

During World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of The Netherlands.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage which combines various footage of animals including dogs, raccoons, snakes, and mice.

Director: James Benning
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada | USA

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between permanence and impermanence.

Director: Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Stars: Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay. Their stories are arranged in loose chronology: early years, fitting in (which for some meant marriage), disclosing their sexuality, establishing adult identities, and reflecting on how things have changed and how things should be.

Director: Silvio Narizzano
Stars: Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

In the 1930’s, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he’s distant, superior, lonely, and bewildered; his students are rebellious. Over the course of the year, he is drawn to Alice Field, the wife of a farmer, in a love that can lead nowhere. But, he and his students connect, a connection that matters and lasts.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

The lackluster and plodding station master Bolwieser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Director: Atif Yilmaz
Stars: Türkan Soray, Kadir Inanir, Ahmet Mekin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Soviet Union

Story of a dilemma between a woman’s love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the hardships and have a quick happy marriage. However, after he helps a man one night, Ilyas’ life changes forever and he leaves Asya and Samet, their son and doesn’t come back. After that, Asya takes their son and go away without knowing where she is heading, until a familiar hand reaches her to help selflessly.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Soviet Union

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Director: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Sean Connery, Ryan O’Neal, Michael Caine
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

A short film by Hollis Frampton centering around a bride and groom in a garden setting.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Christo, Jeanne-Claude
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists’ struggle with local ranchers, environmentalists and state bureaucrats ends when the fence is unfurled, reuniting the community in a celebration of beauty.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna’s step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law of one of the widow’s admirers: a few years before, they had been idealistic lovers and now she can’t believe he has settled for a dim wife and a job as a teacher. Amidst parlor games and idle talk of women’s rights and peasants’ capabilities, Sofia and Misha rekindle their love. Will they flaunt convention, abandon families, and run away to pursue lost dreams? Rescue comes from an unexpected place.

Director: Anthony Page
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A disturbed, institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany | France

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, Jean Babilée
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother’s death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.

Director: Lino Brocka
Stars: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Rez Cortez
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

The life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother’s young boyfriend moves in with them.

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

On his deathbed, Carmine Vespucci’s mobster father tells him to “get Proclo” – Carmine’s brother-in-law Gaetano. With “the hit” on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can’t find him. He arrives at The Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued amorously by “chubby chaser” Claude and by entertainer Googie Gomez, who believes him to be a Broadway producer. His guides and protectors through The Ritz are gatekeeper Abe, habitue Chris, and bellhop/go-go boys Tiger and Duff. Squeaky-voiced detective Michael Brick and his employer Carmine do locate Gaetano at the Ritz, as does his wife Vivian, but family secrets come out.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Italy

In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr Klein clear his name?

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings.

Director: Zoltán Fábri
Stars: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary

In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner,when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Director: Tom Gries
Stars: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

The investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.

Director: Jorge Fons
Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Jaime Fernández, José Alonso
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico

A watchman is murdered in a building site. The movie narrates the several versions of implicates. Based in the Vicente Leñero’s novel.

Director: Jacques Drouin
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Canada

An artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party activist there, and he has unpleasant memories of it. But he sets to the task in the belief that he will build a place where people will live and work well. His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs. Disillusioned, Bednarz gives up his post.

Director: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait | Morocco | UK | Saudi Arabia | Egypt

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Peter Beard, Ed Emshwiller, Ken Jacobs
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Artist-writer-poet-filmmaker Jonas Mekas documents his early years building a life and discovering an arts community in New York.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany

Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and relying on the life savings of a woman from the country who is fanatically devoted to him. He also has to contend with his long-suffering wife, his fly-obsessed crazy brother, his other mistress and a police murder investigation.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: John Hargreaves, Pat Bishop, Graham Kennedy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

Don is a schoolteacher living with his wife Kath and baby son in suburban Melbourne. On the night of the 1969 federal election he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife. To the party come Mal, Don’s university mentor, and his bitter wife Jenny, sex-obsessed Cooley and his latest girlfriend, nineteen-year-old Susan, Evan, a dentist, and his beautiful artist wife Kerry. Somehow, two Liberal supporters, Simon and Jody also come. As the party wears on it becomes clear that the Labor party, which is supported by Don and most of the guests, is not winning. As a result, alcohol consumption increases, and the sniping between Don and his male friends about their failed aspirations gets uglier, as does their behavior toward the women.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Lucien Bossy, Leance Debrossian, Marcelle Debrossian
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | West Germany

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh, John Lehne
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn’t know that, and she doesn’t know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and sad love story!

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Ramiro Cavazos, Los Alegres De Teran, Los Pinguinos del Norte
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

“Chulas Fronteras” is a documentary about the music of the Mexican community on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, particularly of migrant farmers. It includes material about the roots of the music, but devotes principal attention to the music as a form of social protest against oppression and racism.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

Rome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo, Mario and daughter Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But newly married Irene, Pippo’s wife, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its consequences, she manages to convince the brothers that they must prevent at all costs that his father falls in love again to avoid the risk of losing their inheritance.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Soviet Union

A vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Elena Solovey, Rodion Nahapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She’s in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film’s cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he’s a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Stars: Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden

When a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive.

Director: Hal Ashby
Stars: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Italy | France

A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Rüdiger Kirschstein
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | West Germany

A countess’ unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Director: Bruno Bozzetto
Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy

An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he’s come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named “Prisney” (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he’s kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hashem Arkan, Mohammad Fassih, Reza Hashemi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s wedding. The tailor’s apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Koji Ishizaka, Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan

After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man.

Director: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Fred Schepisi’s film, ‘The Devil’s Playground’ is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany | France

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family’s county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of “Chinese roulette”.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Ernest Maftei, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

Director: Marcel Ophüls
Stars: Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK | West Germany | USA | France

Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.

Director: Glenn Jordan
Stars: Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Ashley, James Franciscus
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA

Daniel Corban’s wife Elizabeth disappeared after they had a fight. Then she shows up, yet he insists that the woman isn’t actually his wife.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: French | English

During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.

Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain

A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Faye Dunaway, Bette Davis, James Sloyan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a house. Instead of offering their flat to him and his bride, they give the flat up, so he goes to Munich to work in construction, bringing his wife who is soon pregnant. They buy things on credit; he works overtime. He shows up with flowers and expensive gifts. When construction slows and he works less overtime, he cannot adjust his spending habits: he needs to be loved. Pressures mount. When he snaps, and violence ensues, who will be his victim?

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Director: Joy N. Houck Jr.
Stars: Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.

Director: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental short film from the Gates of Death series made by Hollis Frampton.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Steve Liptay, Scott McKain
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: West Germany

Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: France

Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the “Dziga Vertov Group”) examine the parallel lives of two families – one French, one Palestinian – using an exploratory combination of film and video.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

The European equivalent of “The Return of the Secaucus 7,” this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the “revolutionary” sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA

A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.

Director: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
Stars: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK | USA

A documentary of a Led Zeppelin tour mixed with live concert footage, a unique fantasy, and interviews with those involved with the band.

Director: Nicolas Gessner
Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA | Canada | France

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden

A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany | France

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous “Ruby Glass.”

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

In the twilight of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover, and is still in love with her, although she doesn’t know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her assets is to destroy her reputation.

Director: Serge Leroy
Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michael Lonsdale
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of ‘Richard III’ and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage – a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford – but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Mossad agents kidnap an American Jewish man, accuse him of being a fugitive Nazi war criminal and take him to Jerusalem to face trial for genocide.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Pradip Mukherjee, Rafique Ahmed, S. Bagchi
Genre: Drama
Country: India

A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, François Maistre
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore prime suspect. Where is Louis’ body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?

Director: Dick Richards
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub.

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Juan José Camero, Marina Magali, Alfredo Alcón
Genre: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Argentina

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn’t happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. When he’s 20 years old, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda, and if he fails to do this, he will become a wolf.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Brooke Adams, Donna Mills, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being bisected with surgical precision. The detective interviews people who knew Short, who was called “The Black Dahlia” because of the black outfits she wore.

Director: Stuart Cooper
Stars: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

Director: Donald Wrye
Stars: Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander, Robby Benson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.

Director: Harry Winer
Stars: Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx, Yukon Frida
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about the legendary creature, Bigfoot, with emphasis on him being the missing link.

Director: Robert Enrico
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France | West Germany

During World War II, a peaceful French surgeon is forced to ruthlessly exterminate the Nazis because of their atrocities.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Don Murray
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.

Director: Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt
Stars: James Whitmore
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.

Director: Mario Monicelli
Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the people they meet, or just wandering around Tuscany. One of these crazy trips ends up in the hospital run by military-like Professor Sassaroli. Melandri falls in love with his wife, and steals her from the husband, much to the delight of Sassaroli himself. The relationship won’t last but the Professor becomes the fifth member of the team of friends, and jokes get even more complicated and powerful.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A short comedy animation about human endeavors in flight.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Lore are openly hostile to her. She resorts to valium and drink, and looks for sympathy, but to no avail.

Director: Robert Young
Stars: Connie Booth, John Cleese, Graham Crowden
Genre: Short, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK

A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

Director: Michael Schultz
Stars: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1964 on Chicago’s Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Juliusz Machulski, Irena Lorentowicz, Wlodzimierz Borunski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist, named Siedlecki, who does not like the final result and takes his problems on Sowa and Romek who defends him.

Director: Lino Brocka
Stars: Hilda Koronel, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Philippines

Júlio Madiaga, a ‘provinciano’, arrives in Manila to search for Ligaya, his loved one.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and it’s effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Caroline Baudry, Catherine, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda’s camera.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France | Cuba

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.

Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective Borniche by repeatedly killing his informants. When he’s finally caught with help from the little criminal Paul, Buisson will have committed more than 100 robberies and killed 30 people.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | West Germany

To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family’s unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.

Director: John Douglas, Robert Kramer
Stars: Mary Chapelle, Sharon Krebs, Jim Nolfi
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

“A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape, to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left who faced both personal and hhistorical transitions in the period following the Vietnam War.”

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

Raised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.

Director: Sam O’Steen
Stars: Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A lonely widow and a postman find romance late in life at the local dance hall.

Director: Jack Gold
Stars: John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.

Director: Michael Ritchie
Stars: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob’s son is up to some mischief. Could this year’s pageant be in jeopardy?

Director: Jean Cocteau
Stars: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Francine Weisweiller
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Short about Mrs. Weisweiller’s Villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferat, on Côte d’Azur, which was decorated by Jean Cocteau.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

Director: Yves Boisset
Stars: Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise
Genre: Drama
Country: France

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou’s campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest… A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman’s racism.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.

Director: James F. Collier
Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O’Connell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Poland

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Maja Komorowska, Piotr Fronczewski, Marek Piwowski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won’t be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It’s only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Marthe Keller
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies’man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager’s wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor’s wife.

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: James Whitmore, Sam Elliott, Ned Romero
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

In a period when many thought that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce won the admiration of the American public.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Experimental
Country: USA

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.

Director: Bob Godfrey
Stars: Richard Briers, Harry Fowler, Barbara Moore
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: UK

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century – including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world’s largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.

Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Stars: Leonard Buschel, Elsie Downey, Michael Sullivan
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. It is seemingly intentionally impossible to understand. It leaps from scene to scene, world to world, with recurring names and actors being the only things that hold it together. Very much like sketch comedy, except without much of a point. The movie literally goes from “Moment To Moment”, with no actual narrative in mind rather than to just film a bunch of miscellaneous scenes and ideas and cut them together. Make of it what you will.

Director: Thom Andersen, Fay Andersen, Morgan Fisher
Stars: Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

A documentary film about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Takako Irie, Daisuke Itô, Kyôko Kagawa
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: Japan

A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Director: José Quintero, Gordon Rigsby
Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Ed Flanders
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan’s landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother.

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: William Friedkin, Fritz Lang
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Italy

Interview with the director of “M” & “Metropolis”.

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles’s radio play “The War of the Worlds” accidentally provokes mass panic.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Ned Beatty, John Beck, Billy Green Bush
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shima Iwashita, Hiroko Isayama
Genre: Fantasy, History, Horror
Country: Japan

A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

A young woman’s life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Sweden

A production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” is presented, this film which blurs the lines of it as a stage production – not only with aspects of the theater stage shown, but also the occasional shot of the audience members watching it, and the performers going through their backstage routines during intermission – and a movie as the set moves out from the confines of the stage.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.

Director: Herbert Wise
Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.

Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Christophe Soto, Olivier Bousquet, Roselyne Vuillaume
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Baker’s apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul’s party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Jô Shishido
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Director: Franco Brusati
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland

After the doctor’s refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them.

Director: Kei Kumai
Stars: Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy

A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

Director: John Berry
Stars: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Luigi Vannucchi, Dominique Darel, Rita Calderoni
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ugo Cardea, Anne Pouchie, Claude Berthy
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | France

This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Director: Jamie Uys
Stars: Paddy O’Byrne
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: South Africa

Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.

Director: Bob Clark
Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Barbara Valentin
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder’s interpretation of “A dolls house”.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Romania

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named “Viraga”), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga (in the movie: Costin Märgeanu and Nicolae Jugu). To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu (Visan Nävodeanu) conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the “Morals Division” (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case.

Director: Masud Kimiai
Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Faramarz Gharibian, Nosrat Partovi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and help his friend kick the habit; instead, both men are caught in a shootout with the police and…

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Director: Boris Sagal
Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, William Daniels, Cliff Potts
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system when she reported it, and the afttermath of the culprit’s apprehension.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

When a casual gambler befriends a professional one, he begins to mirror his life, sending both deeper into the sleazy gambling world where the stakes keep getting bigger.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia | Italy

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

Director: Tony Palmer
Stars: Leonard Cohen, Donna Washburn, Ron Cornelius
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

The gravel-voiced songsmith moodily strolls through the byways of various European venues and is seen in concert performing.

Director: Sergio Renán
Stars: Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hassan Darabi, Pare Gol Atashjameh, Masud Zandbegleh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Martin Sheen, Mariclare Costello, Ned Beatty
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK

Composer Gustav Mahler’s life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Yves Montand, Bob Castella, Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Yves Montand’s rehearsals for a special show at Olympia to support Chile’s political refugees. Interviews of this singer and actor, fragments of his films and footage from his concerts created a multifaceted portrait of an artist.

Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Stars: Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Vangelis Kazan, Elena Kyrana
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece

During the shooting of a film, a strange man enters the set holding an umbrella. He walks into the sea and disappears. The people from the film crew claim that this is a publicity stunt, but the musician for the film, who tries to investigate the incident, ponders the significance of this action, and when he tries to do the same thing, he disappears as well.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Ludek Sobota, Marta Vancurová, Vera Ferbasová
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka (Ludek Sobota) leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA

In this plotless 5 minute short, Catherine Coulson plays a legless double-amputee who, throughout the film, is going over a letter she is writing.

Director: Shûji Terayama
Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Director: Bernard Queysanne
Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Tunisia

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan | USA

American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend’s kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: n/a
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Vibrant scenes of individuals’ daily life are filmed in Place de la République.

Director: Neil Young
Stars: Buffalo Springfield, David Crosby, Graham Nash
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Don’t look for a narrative, it’s an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See it for the live footage of Buffalo Springfield and CSNY.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Santanu Bagchi, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: India

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Italy

A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas’ life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy’s frustrated and bored wife.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | West Germany

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man’s diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.

Director: António Reis
Stars: Evangelina Gil Delgado, Jaime Fernandes
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Portugal

A documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.

Director: Philippe Mora
Stars: Eva Braun, Galeazzo Ciano, Albert Einstein
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK

The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun’s home movies.

Director: Peter H. Hunt
Stars: Bette Davis, Kenneth Mars
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother’s consternation.

Director: William A. Graham
Stars: Frederic Forrest, Tyne Daly, Michael McGuire
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

“Larry” is a true story about a man wrongly confined the California State Mental Hospital at Camarillo for 26 years, who is discovered to have average intelligence and released, and with the help of a kind social worker’s guidance, has to learn to cope with the real world.

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A successful public relations man’s refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society’s frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.

Director: Alison De Vere
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Animation
Country: USA

An animated short film in which a man and a woman have a conversation in a cafe.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Bearthm Brakhage, Crystal Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens and the family, while the narrator explains the heavens. We see a bee up close. The narrator suggests metaphors for heavenly bodies. Scenes fade into a black screen or dim purple; close-ups of family life may be blurry. The words about the heavens, such as “The stars are a flock of hummingbirds,” contrast with images and sounds of real children.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Jean Seberg, Nico, Tina Aumont
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche’s The Antichrist.

Director: Guy Debord
Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Guy Debord’s cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book “La société du spectacle” (1967).

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra’s mother to kill him.

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France | Sweden

Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.

Director: Lino Brocka
Stars: Lolita Rodriguez, Lilia Dizon, Eddie Garcia
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

This landmark film is considered by many to be one of the most important in Philippine cinema. The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. But the emptiness of his extravagant lifestyle and the hypocrisy of the town’s so-called leading citizens weigh heavily on him, pushing him to reach out to the village outcasts.

Director: Umberto Lenzi
Stars: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Laura Belli
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Director: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Art Carney
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Experimental, Short
Country: USA

A series of experimental short films from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.

Director: Marcell Jankovics
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Hungary

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the stone, and the mountainside.

Director: Michel Brault
Stars: Hélène Loiselle, Jean Lapointe, Guy Provost
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Director: John Badham
Stars: Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA

The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany

After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman – Helmut. The cruel and torturous nature of their relationship leads Martha to believe Helmut might be trying to kill her.

Director: William A. Graham
Stars: Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Matthew Burrill
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Director: Luchino Visconti
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A reclusive, retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths, led by an obnoxious marchesa, take up residence in his unused upper residence.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films a couple and their dog as they walk farther away into the woods.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This film casts a forensic observational eye over researchers working with primates. After a time watching it is possible to wonder which ones of these two sets of primates is the more strange.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Stars: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Ilarion Ciobanu
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Romania

It’s the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called “romanian dream.”

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: Poland | Soviet Union

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio (“Babyfat”), and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

Director: Peter Foldes
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Canada

Cruel, and utterly effective, Peter Foldes’ experimentation with computer animation employs a bold speechless narrative to draw attention to the grave effects of consumerism. Who needs ethics when everything is within arm’s reach?

Director: Aleksandar Djordjevic
Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav ‘Voja’ Brajovic, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic
Genre: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo’s termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Director: Harold Pinter
Stars: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Canada | USA

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

Director: Stuart Cooper
Stars: John Hurt, John McEnery, David Warner
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near-fascist “party” that promotes male sexual dominance, and which attracts a couple of other unsavory confused characters.

Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA | Canada

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Lea Lander, George Eastman, Riccardo Cucciolla
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Director: Kazuo Hara
Stars: Kazuo Hara, Miyuki Takeda, Sachiko Kobayashi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

In this uncomfortably intimate film, documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara visits his ex-girlfriend Miyuki and records her new relationships.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who’s blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone’s favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he’s separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul’s friendship and in Vincent’s health.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Switzerland

A documentary on the military dictator of Africa’s Uganda.

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada

In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.

Director: John Korty
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A swindler’s activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.

Director: Claude Jutra
Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Marcel Cuvelier
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Canada

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine’s violent death.

Director: Barbara Hammer
Stars: Barbara Hammer
Genre: Short
Country: USA

An experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Young Priest Mark Brian is sent as a vicar to a native American village in British Columbia. There, he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France | Italy

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff.

Director: Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu
Stars: Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Peter Strauss
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

During the 1800s, an American officer who renounces his country during his court-martial is sentenced to sail the seas on American warships without ever setting foot on American soil again or getting news of America.

Director: Mitchell Block
Stars: Shelby Leverington, Alec Hirschfeld
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

A young filmmaking student turns his camera on a female friend as she gets ready to go out for the night. His questions strip away the young woman’s defenses, and soon she reveals her recent sexual assault. Though the film is not a documentary, it is produced in the style of “direct cinema,” creating a provocative tension between fact and fiction.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter’s godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: Anne Baxter, John Forsythe, Kay Lenz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three teenage girls try to help their friend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Stars: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A young American boy unable to overcome a speech defect is disturbed by the constant bickering of his parents, and when they get divorced, he slides into an emotional breakdown.

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Stars: Stephen Elliott, Bill Bixby, Herb Edelman
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman’s off-Broadway play. Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes clear that the steambath is a sort of Afterlife, where indifferent souls come to tell their stories to God who happens to be the attendant picking up the towels.

Director: John Flynn
Stars: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK | France

A professional assassin codenamed “Jackal” plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An unobtrusive and naturalistic examination of the goings-on of a children’s court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.