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Director: David Hugh Jones
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

An affair between a literary agent and his best friend’s wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.

Director: Yilmaz Güney
Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey | France

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award at Cannes for Yol (The Road). When the Turkish superstar leading man turned human rights activist, Guney was convicted for pro-Kurdish political activity and murder, by the Turkish military regime. Director/writer Guney’s last film, Duvar (The Wall), was banned in Turkey for 17 years.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, Melvil Poupaud
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | Portugal

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.

Director: Michael Tuchner
Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, JoBeth Williams, Martha Scott
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

After their child is abducted, John and Reve Walsh are trying to find him. But, shortly after that, Adam is found dead.

Director: Paul Cox
Stars: Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Poland

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Ian McKellen, Sarah Miles, John Gordon Sinclair
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The plight of Walter, a moderately intellectually disabled man, after the deaths of his parents. No concrete provisions have been made for Walter’s upkeep, so he is thrown into an institution, where for the first time he is subjected to the casual cruelties of the “normal” world. Walter is rescued from an uncertain future through the love of June.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: France

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Stars: Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1930’s Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Fouli Elia, Ulysse Llorca, Charles de Gaulle
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Agnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnès Soral
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner named Rashid, comes to the station needing a spark plug for a stolen Moped. He and Lambert connect somehow, and a few days later, they go for a drink. The young man is too cavalier, and when he swipes Rashid’s fancy motorcycle a couple of times, he’s expendable. Lambert decides to avenge the young man and seeks information from Lola, a punk who knew Bensoussan. With surprising perseverance, she pierces Lambert’s shell; he starts to feel again, tells Lola his story, and finds new enthusiasm for life.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France

An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It’s a tough case because of a strong political background.

Director: Lizzie Borden
Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government.

Director: Penelope Spheeris
Stars: Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Alberto Fumagalli, Antonio Cucciarrè, Eligio Martellucci
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy

The assuming of responsibility by individuals, the use of science for man and not against him, the duty of truth to increase the stature of people, all together: these are the important themes this movie debates in allegorical form. Roles are performed by non professional actors and actresses.

Director: Jos Stelling
Stars: Freek de Jonge, Jim van der Woude, Catrien Wolthuizen
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands

At the center of this extremely visualized narrative are the illusionist and his brother, who is lazy on the basis of either great love, or exorbitant envy of the brother. Having spoiled the sick son in a psychiatric hospital, the mother blesses the illusionist on a long journey with one suitcase. The ensuing whirlwind of events drags the heroes deeper into his turbulent whirlpool.

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Stars: Bruno Cremer, Emmanuelle Debever, María Luisa García
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret, tortured life.

Director: Euzhan Palcy
Stars: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Martinique

Set in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Stars: Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Director: Lynne Littman
Stars: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.

Director: Kazuo Inoue
Stars: Ineko Arima, Chikage Awashima, Shôhei Imamura
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

A documentary about Ozu’s life and career.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Lysak, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers’ arrest, and the aftermath.

Director: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also learning a great deal about life, both in and out of school, and not what school officials think they are teaching.

Director: Edward Yang
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Lieh Lee
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan

Two friends who haven’t seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Michael Yama, Andy Lee, Alison Hong
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA

This is Tim Burton’s Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.

Director: Mel Damski
Stars: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK | Mexico

After serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.

Director: Garri Bardin
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, War
Country: Soviet Union

Film characters are ordinary matches. Quarrel that flared up over a trifle turns into a real battle, in which both hostile parties perished.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Aischa Bentebouche, Katherine Best, François Beukelaers
Genre: Documentary, Musical
Country: Belgium | France

This is a making of a musical, with Chantal Ackerman behind and in front of the camera.It is mostly a collection of clips, talks, directions, lectures….. with the camera capturing the whole adventure.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemev
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.

Director: Jim Klein, Julia Reichert
Stars: Oscar Hunter, Rose Podmaka, Sylvia Woods
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Federico Luppi, Víctor Laplace, Héctor Bidonde
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Argentina

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

Director: Nick Broomfield, Sandi Sissel
Stars: Fran, Walter Plankinton, Connie
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Documentary on the “Chicken Ranch,” a legal Nevada brothel.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | Portugal | UK

A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship “a floating factory of crazy people.” He rents a room and does little. He writes letters to his lover, describing the whiteness of the city, the solitude and the silence. He sends his love and emptiness; she replies with love and confusion. He sends movies from his 8mm camera. Then he becomes friendly with Rosa, a chambermaid, and soon it’s a love affair.

Director: Luc Besson
Stars: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France

In a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | Mexico

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Director: Jirí Barta
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Cycles of life, with fantasy elements. An ax splits wood. Bits of split wood move in stop-motion; one piece has a woman’s face near the top. Water streams in torrents; patches of snow give way to spring. A large black bird flies into the frame. It attacks and splinters the wood with the woman’s face. The piece of wood, whole again, becomes the bird’s body. It flies about, and it’s celebrated by other bits of wood. Then, a man leaves a house carrying an empty pail. He gathers bits of wood. A chimney smokes.

Director: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Stars: David Benton, Ann Burriman, Alan Brown
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Australia

A collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman. It turns out that he’s the notorious spy Guy Burgess.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Stars: Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûko Kotegawa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn.

Director: Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Tonino Guerra, Lora Jabloskina, Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

Like the Russian poet of ‘Nostalghia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator, traveled through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer, Andrei Tarkovsky, accompanied by his Italian script-writer, Tonino Guerra, travels through Italy in order to find the locations for their common filmed effort. During this journey, Guerra constantly induces Tarkovsky to reflect on his work and on his past as a film-maker and a poet. The result will be the masterpiece ‘Nostalghia’.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

Director: Carroll Ballard
Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA

A government researcher, sent to research the “menace” of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Stars: Jean Cocteau
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

Jean Cocteau reminisces about the people he has known throughout his long life (he died at 74) in this fascinating documentary by Edgardo Cozarinsky.

Director: Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates
Stars: Rigoberta Menchú, Susan Sarandon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Guatemala

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.

Director: Ara Chekmayan, Richard Kotuk
Stars: Peter Thomas, Richard Kotuk, John Brooks
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A significant number of American children and teenagers – from all social backgrounds – suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation from society while treating their issues in mental health facilities. But there’s no end in sight for those young individuals when they face obstacles and mistreatments in inadequate places under the supervision of careless and inexperienced professionals.

Director: Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay
Stars: Hédi Temessy, Ferenc Zenthe, Gábor Fehér
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

An elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov
Stars: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn’t commit.

Director: Carl Schultz
Stars: Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he’s six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS’s feckless, absent father, she asserts her rights and convinces Lila to have PS live with her weekdays. PS is happy at Lila’s, playing with children, running about, speaking up. At Vanessa’s, there’s a regimen of private school, round vowels, piano and riding lessons, and lonely indoor play with fancy toys. He’s miserable and when he objects, she sues for complete custody. Will anyone listen to him?

Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to-do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding.

Director: John Korty, Charles Swenson
Stars: Lorenzo Music, Judith Kahan, Marshall Efron
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA

Two wannabe heroes and their friends must stop a madman from giving everyone nightmares.

Director: Jerry London
Stars: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA | UK | Italy

Vatican efforts, lead by Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.

Director: Jean Becker
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Oozing sensuality, a young woman arrives in a small town and gets married to the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family’s piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK | New Zealand | Japan

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK | USA

A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Italy | France

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer’s many eccentric friends and admirers.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Soviet Union

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.

Director: Dan Pita
Stars: Claudiu Bleont, Theodor Danetti, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants’ self and conscience.

Director: Ishmael Bernal
Stars: Nora Aunor, Veronica Palileo, Spanky Manikan
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany | France

Richard Wagner’s last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of the medieval epic romances of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail (the chalice touched by the lips of Christ at the last supper), it recounts over three long acts how a “wild child” unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the grail, fulfilling a prophecy that only such a one can save the grail’s protectors from a curse fallen upon them.

Director: Tim Burton, Jerry Rees
Stars: Mike Gabriel, Terrey Hamada, Susan Frankenberger
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A horrifying and touching movie about a tramps dream of fame.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp’s killers don’t look too kindly on this new ‘business’, nor does the morgue’s owner.

Director: Tatyana Lioznova
Stars: Irina Muravyova, Yuriy Yakovlev, Klara Luchko
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl’s struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan

The story follow a court case of a woman accused of having killed her husband.

Director: Patrick Bokanowski
Stars: Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: France

The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs. Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. Attacks, explosions, maniacal and despairing searching, objects which independently move, walls, floors and ceilings which form and disperse. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands | Italy

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo’s father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta’s bad reputation will affect the marriage prospects of Alfredo’s sister. Violetta reluctantly leaves Alfredo, but his love is so strong that it leads him to actions that have tragic consequences.

Director: Basu Chatterjee
Stars: Ashok Kumar, A.K. Hangal, Utpal Dutt
Genre: Comedy
Country: India

Three friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn’t do in their younger days – before death arrives.

Director: Robert Towne
Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

Director: Slava Tsukerman
Stars: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters’ brains.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress’ mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Director: Mica Milosevic
Stars: Nikola Simic, Milan ‘Lane’ Gutovic, Rahela Ferari
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia

In this light, fluffy comedy, a low-level clerk cannot make ends meet because his brood is in no way economically cooperative: his daughter is a lawyer looking for work, unsuccessfully; his son is a would-be astronomer who wants to spend his life studying without working; and his other son wants his own wheels. It is enough to send a father to the lottery, or to the soccer pool.

Director: Péter Gothár
Stars: Anikó Iván, István Znamenák, Péter Gálfy
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.

Director: Witold Leszczynski
Stars: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Anna Seniuk, Joanna Sienkiewicz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree – a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.

Director: Károly Makk
Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Ildikó Bánsági, Grazyna Szapolowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy.

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK | USA

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Director: Béla Tarr
Stars: Judit Pogány, Róbert Koltai, Kyri Ambrus
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Director: Franco Piavoli
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

The passage of time in different dimensions illustrated by biological evolution, the changing seasons and the everyday moments of human life.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon’s lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza’s lover, while she is Cracanel’s lover. One letter starts the ball rolling and ugly characters start revealing themselves in a burlesque-like fashion.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman’s baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Director: Jin Xie, Shuqin Huang
Stars: Shimao Zhu, Shan Cong, Qiong Liu
Genre: Drama
Country: China

This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is deserted by her poor family. He Xiangdong, a woodworker, adopts her and rename her He Cuigu. To steer clear of arrest by the enemy, Dong Hongguo, offspring of a revolutionary family, is renamed Xiao Hua so as to be adopted by her adopter. Later, Zhao Yongsheng’s parents are killed by the enemy.

Director: Alan Greenberg
Stars: Micalon Stevenson, Jammy Galloway, Louie Lepkie
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

In May 1981, Alan Greenberg went to Jamaica to cover Bob Marley’s funeral. He ended up making a documentary showcasing the island’s culture. His “Land of Look Behind” features interviews with various Rastafari who talk about their philosophies.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Yoosef Moghaddam
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Iran

A deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can’t hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.

Director: Arnold Schwartzman
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: USA

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.

Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.

Director: Alan Gibson
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel’s prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.

Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A brave unicorn (Mia Farrow) and a magician (Alan Arkin) fight an evil King (Sir Christopher Lee), who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world’s unicorns.

Director: Richard Benjamin
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers that Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as a punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia’s “biggest fan”, helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden | West Germany | Norway

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Olivier Straub, Nadette Thinus, Bernard Thinus
Genre: Short
Country: France

The child Ernesto doesn’t want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn’t know.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | UK | West Germany | France | Spain | Portugal | USA

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended (1955). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Director: George Schaefer
Stars: Bette Davis, Penny Fuller, Christopher Guest
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Family
Country: USA

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

Director: Don Bluth
Stars: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Frank Birney, David Worden, Ken Shapiro
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: USA

Gus Van Sant’s early short film about “The Discipline of D.E.,” which is an extremely efficient way of doing things.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.

Director: Vince Collins
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

A jet-propelled white rabbit flies through the vulva of a supine woman into a wonderland where people and objects turn inside out, changing shapes and identities at warp speed. Events roughly follow Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” The caterpillar and the queen make appearances, as does Alice. Images and symbols are often sexual. At the end, Alice asks, “Who has had such a curious dream?”

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Raymond Barre, Pierre Brodeur
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec’s independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians’ promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women’s relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie – but also in his own life.

Director: Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly
Stars: Richard Oxenburgh, Daniel Leahy, Mick Leahy
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | Canada | USA

This documentary presents footage of the first contact between the highland tribes of Papua New Guinea, and European explorers. In the 1930s three Australian’s, Michael, Daniel and James Leahy were the first white people to venture into the vast New Guinean interior. They searched for gold and found 1 million highland tribespeople who had previously had no contact with the outside world. Amazingly, they took a film camera with them.

Director: Yorgos Apostolidis, Yannis Smaragdis, Yiannis Typaldos
Stars: Harry Klynn, Dimitris Piatas, Joly Garbi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece

Peppered with unblushing advertisements against the backdrop of a new era in early-1980s Greece, Harry Klynn’s enthusiastic triptych unfolds, depicting an entire nation’s aspirations, desires, and fears before a brave new world.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Stars: Jerzy Binczycki, Anna Dymna, Tomasz Stockinger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village healer, not remembering who he is.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Abigail Cruttenden
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Alan Duckworth (known as ‘Quack Quack’ to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class. Alan daydreams throughout his day, showing up late for school and making little academic progress. He becomes friends with the groundsman Tommy, whom he sees as some sort of war hero. Alan often follows Tommy around, telling him how Tommy helped to win the war, while making predictions about what the post-war world will be like.

Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Stars: Caris Corfman, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Dragan Nikolic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Mel Ferrer, Michel Auclair
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician – the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist’s objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing – and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.

Director: Daniel Vigne
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man’s claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Director: Lou Adler
Stars: Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy

In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.

Director: Hans Alfredson
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson, Hans Alfredson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.

Director: Efrem Pruzhanskiy
Stars: Marina Neyolova, Liya Akhedzhakova, Nikolay Karachentsov
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

Director: Ann Hui
Stars: George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its “New Economic Zones.”

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A young woman’s sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Director: René Laloux
Stars: Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France | Switzerland | West Germany | UK | Hungary

Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel’s father’s friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Erland Josephson, Dusica Zegarac
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia

This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.

Director: Alan Clarke
Stars: Tim Roth, Terry Richards, Bill Stewart
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

After being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo..

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to attack black people.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium | France | Netherlands | Canada

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance.

Director: Susan Seidelman
Stars: Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York’s waning punk scene.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Freddy Buache, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Godard has been hired to make a film celebrating the 500th anniversary of Lausanne. This film is his videotaped refusal.

Director: Michael Verhoeven
Stars: Lena Stolze, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany’s Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the “White Rose” after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

Director: Jirí Barta
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Czechoslovakia

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema – from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler’s (Sir Derek Jacobi’s) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer’s autobiography of the same name.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Two cab drivers search San Francisco’s Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo.

Director: Terry Hughes, Ian MacNaughton
Stars: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK

The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Stars: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer
Genre: Thriller
Country: France

Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Suzanne Flon, Sébastien Floche
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | France

Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France

Trough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany

In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city’s new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Juliet Berto, Agnès Varda, Judy Baca
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA

Agnes Varda’s documentary on murals in Los Angeles.

Director: Elem Klimov
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimately leads to his gruesome assassination.

Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Mexico | Malta

A daughter of a millionaire, distinguish by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant – to send after her an equally unlucky person.

Director: Hector Babenco
Stars: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs.

Director: José Luis Garci
Stars: Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the dark underbelly of Madrid where he finds that he is not only one looking for the girl. Someone else is also interested in her, someone powerful and dangerous who will stop at nothing to prevent Areta from discovering the truth.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | Hungary | Austria

In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich’s doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

Director: Ilya Frez
Stars: Tatyana Aksyuta, Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Elena Solovey
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy’s mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A suburban housewife’s world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who’s been breaking local women’s feet.

Director: Franz Antel
Stars: Karl Merkatz, Alfred Böhm, Hans Holt
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria | West Germany

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

Director: Kôhei Oguri
Stars: Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Yasuda, Mariko Kaga
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron’s deceased wife.

Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany

A teen girl in 1970’s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Director: Sara Driver
Stars: Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister’s house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins…

Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Stars: Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland | West Germany

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Michael Huddleston
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town–who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent Sixties–is as much about the coming of age of America as it is about the changes the characters go through.

Director: Vulo Radev
Stars: Eli Skorcheva, Antony Genov, Ivan Grigorov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

A gifted young psychiatrist sets up a group for people deemed ‘insane’ and uses new methods to help them integrate with society at large.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy | West Germany | France

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

Director: William Dear
Stars: Michael Nesmith, Bill Martin, Lark Geib
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA

A collection of comedy skits and music videos, such as a game-show spoof called “Name That Drug”, a visit to the office of the Clandestine Typing Service, and a man providing a skewed translation of a Mexican serenade for his girlfriend.

Director: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Huie L. Rogers
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.

Director: Yves Boisset
Stars: Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Genre: War, Drama
Country: France

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He’s a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it’s coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson, Tony Pitts
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Three men face their mother’s death.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

Director: Ivan Passer
Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Andy Warhol
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Wiseman documentary about a modeling agency in NY.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Waclaw Ulewicz, Lech Grzmocinski, Tadeusz Bartosik
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A local party secretary (this is still the time when Poland was behind the iron curtain) has to face a mob of strikers protesting hefty increases in food prices by the central government. The embattled secretary decides at first to stick it out at the party’s office instead of making the recommended hasty escape. Most of the footage is from the point of view of the party secretary.

Director: Zoran Tadic
Stars: Ivica Vidovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Bozidarka Frajt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia

A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes based on statistical analyses. Intrigued by this talent, the teacher tells a married, female friend that the man seems to have done what he claims. Then the numbers show that there is a slip-up and a murder that was supposed to have occurred, did not. The stranger is adamant that a balance has to be achieved or the whole town will suffer – and he leaves.

Director: Jon Else
Stars: Hans Bethe, Holm Bursom, Haakon Chevalier
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: West Germany

In 1938, a German singer falls in love with a Jewish composer in Zurich, who helps Jews flee Nazi Germany. She wants to help but is forced back to Germany. Her song “Lili Marleen” becomes a hit with soldiers and the Nazi top.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sandrine Kljajic
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Valeria D’Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house there is a strange young woman: Fosca (d’Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Iran

A short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.

Director: John Laing
Stars: David Hemmings, John Hargreaves, Tony Barry
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous murder cases in New Zealand history. Did Arthur Thomas kill Jeannette and Harvey Crewe at their Pukekawa farm house? Arthur was sure that trusting the police and co-operating fully would prove his innocence. The police held a very different view of this simple farmer.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Trevor Howard, Mick Ford, Bernice Stegers
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.

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

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970’s and 1980’s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show. Werner Herzog presents the man, his thoughts and also includes some of his uncharacteristic programs.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Young unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Two sisters both fight for women’s rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Director: Nils Malmros
Stars: Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen, Line Arlien-Søborg
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

We follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realizes he’s in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

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

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining flashing lights and colors. This is part of the Arabic Numeral Series.

Director: Manfred Kirchheimer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing the gritty urban landscape of 1970s New York, to a commentary-free soundtrack that combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin.

Director: John Chapman, Chris Marker, Frank Simeone
Stars: Arielle Dombasle
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A short film that shows Boundless, Surreal objects that are juxtaposed with our present World. Cars, Motorways, noise of our modern society; A giant city in the distance – all that shrouds this lonely and forgotten island of Dreams. Filmed at the Emeryville Mudflats near San Francisco.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany | France

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets some important people and discovers the everyday face of the war. He also has to figure out about his home life, where his marriage is in a big crisis.

Director: Ladislav Smoljak
Stars: Josef Abrhám, Libuse Safránková, Daniela Bakerová
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: Paul Roebling, Julie Harris, Arthur Miller
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

This documentary chronicles the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The difficult construction process is described in interesting detail; later parts of the film interview current notables who describe the effects that the Brooklyn Bridge has had upon New York society and beyond.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

Director: Leon Hirszman
Stars: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Union leader’s son doesn’t want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father’s tradition of political activism.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

During a high profile Mafia testimony case in California’s Riverside County, a hired killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

Director: Hugh Hudson
Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

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

An experimental short by Stan Brakhage combining lights, colors, and film.

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

A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal.

Director: Jim Brown
Stars: Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, “The Weavers,” and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.

Director: Janis Streics
Stars: Lilita Berzina, Olga Drege, Uldis Dumpis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

The struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt’s inheritance through comic and romantic events.

Director: Piotr Szulkin
Stars: Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders. Then the chaos breaks out: the Martians and police mistreat the populace; things become violent.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Vlastimil Brodský
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.

Director: Milos ‘Misa’ Radivojevic
Stars: Aleksandar Bercek, Dara Dzokic, Rade Markovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Yugoslavia

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro, Danièle Gégauff
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father’s estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.

Director: Roman Kachanov
Stars: Olga Gromova, Vsevolod Larionov, Yuriy Volyntsev
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union

A group of peaceful space explorers find out a trail of a mysterious plot.

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young prostitute and he falls in love with her.

Director: Marguerite Duras
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Yann Andréa, Marguerite Duras
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood.

Director: Sheldon Renan
Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA | Japan

A documentary of the decline of America. It features footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.

Director: George Schaefer
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France | USA

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler’s (Sir Anthony Hopkins’) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life – and resorts to drastic means to do so.

Director: Michael Mann
Stars: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who has other plans for him.

Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland

A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut’s son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.

Director: Joe Dante
Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Wife and husband, both actors, play a couple in love from the Victorian era. Soon they begin to feel that fiction interweaves into reality.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.

Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbert Wartha
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she’s in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.

Director: Franco Rosso
Stars: David N. Haynes, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Italy

The movie centres around Brindsley Forde’s character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in West London. The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

During a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father’s apartment.

Director: Pavlos Tasios
Stars: Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Katerina Gogou
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had “ordered” from the musicians.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai, Oszkárné Gombik
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Director: Lech Kowalski
Stars: Stiv Bators, Terry Chimes, The Clash
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary chronicaling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and news footage.

Director: Zeki Ökten
Stars: Aytaç Arman, Güngör Bayrak, Coskun Aktemel
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

Ismail is out of work despite am obvious willingness to do almost anything to earn enough to provide for his family. He is too well educated for the jobs he hopes to find, but not well enough connected to find the work he is capable of doing. He joins the labour market (much like the colonial slave markets of the 18th century) daily, only to return to his beloved and beautiful wife demoralized and without money. His wife, her mother, and their baby are totally dependent on him, so he submits to two humiliating tasks: poisoning the local stray dogs and begging his father for part of his inheritance.

Director: Ronald Neame
Stars: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Yvette, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Anne-Lise Gabold
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Denmark

A troubled and solitary woman who suffers from an acute light sensitivity summons the strength to escape her persistent trials; however, the fateful morning which is only hours away, still seems so distant and pale. Can she take the step?

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents’ estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he’s in the city, and Oblomov’s life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga’s, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?

Director: Elem Klimov
Stars: Elem Klimov, Valentin Rasputin, Stefaniya Stanyuta
Genre: Short, Biography
Country: Soviet Union

A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko’s films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta
Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with “Fall.”

Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A woman enters the afterlife briefly after a car crash that kills her husband. But she survives – and finds herself possessing strange powers.

Director: Erden Kiral
Stars: Yaman Okay, Erkan Yücel, Nur Sürer
Genre: Drama
Country: Trukey

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

Director: Jack Priestley
Stars: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

In 1975 and 1976 Paul McCartney and Wings undertook the epic Wings over the World tour, the largest scale tour they would ever undertake as a band. From this tour came both the legendary “Wings over America” triple live album and the concert film “Rockshow”.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Snezana Niksic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Director: Ishmael Bernal
Stars: Charito Solis, Alma Moreno, Lorna Tolentino
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families’ conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word ‘Manila’ on its title.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist’s mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive an old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for personal and professional reasons.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France | West Germany

In a future where dying of illness is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.

Director: Richard Donner
Stars: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits.

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: William Holden, Ricky Schroder, Jack Thompson
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia | USA

Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive …

Director: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Libya | USA

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.

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

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage consisting of family footage of Halloween and school plays.

Director: Roger Andrieux
Stars: Philippe Léotard, Laura Alexis, Evelyne Dress
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle’s outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson’s “Little Mermaid,” and she thinks that in Georges she’s found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she’s nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him a playful self, and he likes her devotion. The attraction builds, threatening Georges’ adult relationships, including that with Nelly, his sweetheart. Where on earth can this affair lead?

Director: Gábor Bódy
Stars: Patricia Adriani, Udo Kier, György Cserhalmi
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 140-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a “modern” life.

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

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Kisako Makishi
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan

A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones
Genre: Music
Country: UK

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols “documentary”, told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make “a million pounds.” Silly and hard to follow at times, but worth seeing for some excellent Pistols concert footage, some wickedly amusing animated sequences, and Sid Vicious’ eerily prophetic performance of “My Way.”

Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Genre: Documentary
Country: Yugoslavia

Identical young twin girls in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream. This means forcing them to speak normal English and lose their secret language. The filmmaker’s own questions about this process run across as text at the bottom of the screen, a first use of that technique in documentary.

Director: Karpo Acimovic-Godina
Stars: Olga Kacjan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Story about the group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.

Director: Carlos Diegues
Stars: José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | West Germany

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasdô’s knowledge. He’s moon-struck. Then, after Dasdô’s baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.

Director: Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton
Stars: Bruce Davison, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA | West Germany

In a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.

Director: Krsto Papic
Stars: Petar Bozovic, Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | Sweden

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by Peter Egermann (Robert Atzorn), a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led Peter to perform such a shocking act.

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. She appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognizes his wife’s musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. At 18, the busy mother of four children still finds time to write and sing songs at small fairs and local honky-tonks. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the grueling, tumultuous path to superstardom and country-music greatness.

Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk
Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Les Serdyuk
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Alix Clio-Roubaud, Boris Eustache
Genre: Short
Country: France

A woman, sharing with a man, important moments of her life.

Director: Mircea Daneliuc
Stars: Tora Vasilescu, Mircea Daneliuc, Gina Patrichi
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

A television reporter and her cameraman find themselves in the middle of intertwined professional and personal dilemma.

Director: Moshé Mizrahi
Stars: Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.

Director: Jacques Duron
Stars: Philippe Bories, Bernard Flamain, Jeanne Barthélémy
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: France

A coming of age story about two great friends during the school years whose friendship is truly tested when one of the boys start to develop different feelings for the other. At first, it seems Philippe and Claude are just experimenting new sensations, everything is pure curiosity to them. But total reciprocity isn’t the name of the game and Philippe is clearly infatuated with his friend.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Anzonini Del Puerto, Kathleen Bendel, Harrod Blank
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the ‘stinking rose.’

Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Dragan Maksimovic, Pavle Vuisic
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia

This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. “Petria’s wreath” is a story about the tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.

Director: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
Stars: Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | West Germany

Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1982) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray’s original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray’s state of health.

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Director: Vladimir Menshov
Stars: Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Director: Slobodan Sijan
Stars: Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo ‘Bata’ Stojkovic
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

It’s April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.

Director: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Walter Huston, Benjamin Simon
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A group of mentally traumatized veteran patients is followed as they go through psychiatric treatment.

Director: Terence Davies
Stars: Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Paul Barber
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK

A depressed man with a boring job cares for his aging mother, cruises for queer sex and guiltily confesses his sins in an entangled web of memory and despair.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: Muhammad Ali, Drew Bundini Brown, Angelo Dundee
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Country: USA

An American documentary film about the 1980 heavyweight title fight between the aging Muhammad Ali and his former sparring partner Larry Holmes for an unprecedented fourth title.

Director: Karel Kachyna
Stars: Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Lukás Vaculík
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia

Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague – Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty.

Director: Connie Field
Stars: Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright, Lyn Childs
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Vladimir Gaitan, Joanna Pacula, Sergiu Nicolaescu
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Romania | West Germany

In 1916 Romanian Army lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu jealously obsesses over his wife Lena’s apparent infidelity and contests against gigolo lawyer Nicolau for Lena’s love.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.

Director: Francis Mankiewicz
Stars: Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

Director: William H. Whyte
Stars: William H. Whyte
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This highly influential film in architecture and planning circles by William H. Whyte analyzes the success and failures of urban spaces. Observing the natural order of spaces and the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban spaces and ways these spaces can be improved.

Director: Herbert Vesely
Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany | France | Austria

The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Maura, Félix Rotaeta, Alaska
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.

Director: John Mackenzie
Stars: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Director: Dennis Hopper
Stars: Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Michael Goodwin
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.

Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany | Italy

In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

Director: Alan Clarke
Stars: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70’s.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called “Quintet.” For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces … and only the winner survives.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | Spain

As 1973 winds down, Francisco Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. The caudillo is aging, though, and the continuity of the régime is in question. One man has the trust of Franco, enough authority and experience to assume the leadership, and an impeccable track record as to dealing with enemies of the State: admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. For the embattled clandestine Basque organization ETA, Carrero Blanco must be brought down.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: France

Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears: he is Alphonse’s wife’s murderer… Bizarre and unreal.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Clémentine Amouroux, Catherine Rétoré, Franziskus Abgottspon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.

Director: Richard Pearce
Stars: Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus
Genre: Western, Drama
Country: USA

A widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll.

Director: Suzan Pitt
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA

An animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.

Director: Doru Nastase
Stars: Stefan Sileanu, Ernest Maftei, Emanoil Petrut
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Director: Giulio Paradisi
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Altavista, Osvaldo Terranova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina

The story about a family that must maintain a insatiable grandmother.

Director: Haile Gerima
Stars: Barbarao, Johnny Weathers, Susan Williams
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

It details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The government threatens to take away her welfare if she does not get an abortion.

Director: Alain Corneau
Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris’ suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who’s been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal… A very gloomy movie, exuding dispair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.

Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

The July 3rd, 1973 historic concert of the ‘leper Messiah’. This was to be David Bowie’s last concert with the Ziggy persona and the Spiders from Mars. A great medley of ‘Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud’/’All The Young Dudes’/’Oh! You Pretty Things’, a Lou Reed cover, and a Rolling Stones cover are but some of the highlights.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Mozart’s opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna’s father. He is then chased by Donna Anna’s fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.

Director: Stefan Jarl
Stars: Kenneth ‘Kenta’ Gustafsson, Gustav ‘Stoffe’ Svensson, Eva Blondin
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

About a couple of friends in Stockholms drug world.

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Peter Bull, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.

Director: Borislav Sharaliev
Stars: Ivan Ivanov, Yanina Kasheva, Valcho Kamarashev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

A boy from a poor Sofia neighborhood – Rado who is orphan and has committed several petty crimes – is sent to a borstal, or, to put it otherwise becomes a juvenile prisoner. Unfortunately, however, he cannot reconcile his uncomplicated pride, sense of justice with the kind of education provided by people who are more often than not deprived of sensibility and human warmth. The order there is repulsive, the boy is seeking for freedom and often makes escapes. During one of the escapes he meets the love of his lifetime. Suddenly Rado falls in love with Benny, a student, the daughter of well educated and sophisticated family (at least, this is the first impression) and this intensify his desire for freedom and independence. Naturally, conflict is not slow to appear. The parents of Benny are panic-stricken when getting aware of the fact. They are resolved to separate the couple. Their parental love is sincere but the reality is phony and cruel.

Director: Wojciech Marczewski
Stars: Piotr Lysak, Tomasz Hudziec, Hanna Skarzanka
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The life and times of a sensitive, poetic Polish boy who watches his country strive towards the liberation movement.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Amparo Muñoz, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain | France

Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In their reunion, she finds that Jose died three years ago; Juan left his wife Luchy; Fernando is still living with his mother and unsuccessfully trying to fly a hang glider; and the three little girls are grown-up. Further, she discovers that the dysfunctional family is completely broken, and Luchy in embezzling mother’s money. When Juan arrives for the celebration, he plots with Fernando and Luchy to kill the mother to get the inheritance. Meanwhile, Antonio has a brief affair with Natalia.