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Director: Paul Hamann
Stars: Bobby Butler, Donald Cabana, Melanie Christopher
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Fourteen Days in May is a documentary film directed by Paul Hamann and originally shown on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1987. The programme recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Johnson protested his innocence and claimed that his confession had been made under duress. He was executed in Mississippi’s gas chamber on 20 May 1987

Director: Kwon-taek Im
Stars: Soo-youn Kang, Gu-sun Lee, Yang-ha Yun
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea

Shin, a nobleman, had been trying to conceive a male heir to pass his family name. Unable to provide a male heir, Shin’s wife gives her husband permission to search for a surrogate wife to bear a male heir. On the way to finding a surrogate wife, Shin runs into a 17 year old girl, Ok-nyo (Kang Soo-yeon). She was a poor feisty girl who stated she would do anything for money.

Director: Paul Newman
Stars: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Canada

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional couple. They live in the midst chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people and sleep with everybody except each other. Things become interesting when Sammy’s father comes to visit.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain

A film maker has a fling with a homicidal possessive fan who threatens his true love and sister.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark | Sweden

When his wife dies, Lassefar (Max von Sydow) takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard), from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. Signing on as laborers at a large farm, father and son undergo numerous trials, including prejudice against immigrants and run-ins with those more powerful than themselves in both the physical and the social sense. Over the course of a year, young Pelle learns what it takes to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Director: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Iona Bartek, Quay Bartek
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Refracted images, not unlike those in a funhouse mirror, display two children playing in a backyard, a boy and a girl. There’s a dog, a swing, a picket fence, a Big Wheels trike. The grass is green and lush. A soundtrack mixes a chorus, swelling strings, and a child vocalizing. The effect is to idealize the images.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: Documentary
Country: Soviet Union

A film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Country: UK | USA

The Quays are American-born identical twin animators who work out of London but whose work has a strong Eastern European flavor.

Director: Mabel Cheung
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong

Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city

Director: Luis Mandoki
Stars: Rachel Chagall, Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Mexico

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

Director: Robert Townsend
Stars: Robert Townsend, Craigus R. Johnson, Helen Martin
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.

Director: Seijirô Kôyama
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshinori Omi
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan

The true story about a dog’s loyalty to its master, even after his death.

Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.

Director: David Hugh Jones
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Director: Jirí Barta
Stars: Frantisek Husák, Zdenek Martínek, Ivan Vojtek
Genre: Animation, Short, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia

A sarcastic story about a thief who becomes the victim of his own victims. His victims come from the other world and take his most precious possession – his blood. The phantasmal atmosphere of the film is achieved through artificial animation coloring in a motion picture.

Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Stars: Otis Redding, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Steve Cropper
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

Documentary on Otis Redding’s performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

Director: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Peter Boyle, Elliott Gould, James Avery
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: USA

A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.

Director: Paul Cox
Stars: John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia | Belgium

This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo, from 1872 until his tragic death. We gain first hand insight into the man, his motivations, and his humanity.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy | France | USA

After the bankruptcy of their father’s stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing sets for D.W. Griffith and marry beautiful actresses, but tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides…

Director: Prince, Albert Magnoli
Stars: Prince, Sheila E., Sheena Easton
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Canada

A concert film with theatrical staging, featuring live performances by Prince and his band.

Director: Bill Couturié
Stars: Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

A documentary featuring letters written by U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof, augment the first-person “narrative” by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Italy

An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.

Director: Pat O’Connor
Stars: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, John Atkinson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector’s wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken’s bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier?

Director: Laurens C. Postma
Stars: David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum, Stephen King
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: UK

Documentary about the career of director David Cronenberg, with clips from his films and interviews with friends, colleagues, film critics and Cronenberg himself.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.

Director: Trevor Nunn
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son King Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guilford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.

Director: Jim Henson
Stars: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK | USA

Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth.

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Kris Bidenko, Emma Coles, Kris McQuade
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Two girls, at 15; Louise, in a prestigious girls’ high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses in a backwards time line to a final freeze frame of the girls at the peak of their closeness.

Director: Jirí Barta
Stars: Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Michal Pavlícek
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia | West Germany

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.

Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland | France

As a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?

Director: Bill Douglas
Stars: Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK

The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Director: Georgiy Daneliya
Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Yakovlev
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union

Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain

A matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It just a one flaw besides many others from several characters whom unsuspected collide.

Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Stars: Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Deannie Ip, Paul Chun
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong

A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his rounds.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: Spain

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Ben Gazzara, Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra’s bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of “Il professore” (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new “boss of the bosses”. With his sister’s help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. Here he starts immediately a new relationship with “Cosa Nostra” (Italian American Mafia). He is going to seat on the peak of the most powerful criminal organization, and the Italian authorities are almost impotent.

Director: Zivko Nikolic
Stars: Mira Furlan, Milutin ‘Mima’ Karadzic, Petar Bozovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A conservative couple decides to leave their rural community and the wife reluctantly takes up job at a naturist resort. Soon their traditional lifestyle starts colliding with the unconventional one.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Orie Satô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: Feliks Stawinski
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.

Director: Fons Rademakers
Stars: Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Netherlands

A Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.

Director: Edward Yang
Stars: Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Pablo Novak
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Argentina

This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Stars: Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.

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

An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Gabrielle Shornegg, Geraldine Haywood, Marina Knight
Genre: Short
Country: Australia

A look at three girls, young teens, in the era of the Beatles. Pam lives with parents who haven’t spoken directly to each other in two years, using their daughters to talk across the table to each other. Gloria wants to play games with her boyfriend Graeme and ends up pregnant after a kissless, passionless introduction to sex. Stella becomes popular and puts her friendship with Pam on hold. Meanwhile, Pam’s father and other predatory men lurk in the shadows around the girls.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | France | Italy

A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.

Director: John Cassavetes
Stars: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D’Angelo
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Franklin Chang-Diaz, Louis Malle, Anastasio Samosa Portocarrero
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980’s. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film includes interviews with migrant workers and illegal entrants along the Mexican border, conversations with an enterprising Indian motel owner, coverage of industrious African and Asian families in the cities, an extensive interview with the first Costa Rican astronaut, visits with Cuban exiles in Miami, several conversations with West Indian poet Derek Walcott, an extended portrait of the deposed Nicaraguan General Samoza (the surviving brother of Anastasio Somoza Debayle) and his extended family. The film finishes with a brief visit to the Russian Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY to tie in with the centenary of the Statue of Liberty.

Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Story of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA | France

A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.

Director: Léa Pool
Stars: Albane Guilhe, Louise Marleau, Lucie Laurier
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A Swiss Jewish artist who is grieving her father, moves to Montreal and forms a friendship with a child psychiatrist. While creating an installation in an abandoned warehouse, she confronts her past and is increasingly drawn to her friend.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy

A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Rosette, Pascal Greggory
Genre: Short, Comedy, Music
Country: France

Set to music, a couple’s struggle with rising in the morning for coffee.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.

Director: Werner Nekes
Stars: Werner Nekes
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

What really happened between the pictures?

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland | Italy | France

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father’s land caused his death years earlier.

Director: John Heyn, Jeff Krulik
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short, Music
Country: USA

A look at the wild scene outside a Judas Priest concert.

Director: Laurie Anderson
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Joy Askew, Adrian Belew
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Canada

Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic “United States Live,” and several new songs, which incorporate a unique blend of film, animation, dance, and electronics.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn’t even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Reinhold Messner, Lotte Eisner
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: West Germany

A self portrait documentary by Werner Herzog.

Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Robin Houston
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard, Annette Insdorf
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Genre: Short
Country: Australia

A father along with his son and sister is driving back home in his car. The son continiously is throwing orange peels onto the road when suddenly the father stops the car and tells his son to pick the peels. His son disagrees on that and the sister is getting nervous, because she will be going to miss her favourite TV series. Finally everyone is getting pretty angry.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Ichirô Zaitsu
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy
Stars: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union

The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit still sees somewhere the dim light of a new and better future. The next generation starts the walk towards a new life.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany | Czechoslovakia

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Director: Frank Oz
Stars: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family’s inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from injury by a stranger, Daniel, who also becomes David’s friend and admits to being a hit man. Video tapes of their activities appear in the lovers’ mail; David thinks they’re from the neighbor, Daniel is sure the husband is onto the affair and hired the mugger.

Director: Ray Lawrence
Stars: Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.

Director: Ron Fricke
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA | France

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.

Director: David Hare
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Director: John Irvin
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, Kei’ichi Noda
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it seems the boxing match he is counting on to bail out will not be sufficient.

Director: Terry Zwigoff
Stars: Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Jay Lynch
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

Director: Fredi M. Murer
Stars: Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It’s the tradition of the father’s family, called “The Irascibles” by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: Huey Long, Russell Long, David McCullough
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Ken Burns’ portrait of Louisiana governor/U.S. senator Huey Long.

Director: Jovan Acin
Stars: Gala Videnovic, Relja Basic, Nebojsa Bakocevic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They’d last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Director: Norman Stone
Stars: Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, David Waller
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Noted author and scholar finds love, then must endure its loss…

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal. Father Giulio determines to leave again, but his stopped parents convince him to perform the wedding ceremony for his friend Caesar and his fiancee. Don Giulio rushes through the ceremony and then away from Rome. Once away from the city, he immediately regains happiness.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland | UK

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Director: Richard Donner
Stars: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Italy

The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Shigehiko Hasumi, Chris Marker, Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Japan

A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle, Lowell Barnum, Arnold Beneke
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. with weekly foreclosures on family farms, and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.

Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Daniel Johnston
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

This short documentary chronicles the chaos of the Austin, Texas music festival, “Woodshock ’85.”

Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

It’s 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband’s clients – Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer – to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.

Director: Roger Young
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Robert Prosky, Sam Robards
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | UK

Ellen Burstyn stars as the Canadian mother of a college student who vanishes mysteriously while driving back to school in the states. After having no luck from the police, she hires a private detective (Robert Prosky) to help her. Their tenacious pursuit of clues uncovers the grim details of her son’s fate, leading to a shocking climax.

Director: Dan Pita
Stars: Claudiu Bleont, Petre Nicolae, Ecaterina Nazare
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania

Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.

Director: Peque Gallaga
Stars: Daniel Fernando, Anna Marie Gutierrez, Orestes Ojeda
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Young Danny resides above the room of a security guard and his wife in a shabby apartment. Every day, the husband goes home, eats his dinner, washes the dishes, goes straight to bed and makes love to his wife. Danny plays Peeping Tom and every night observes through a hole in his floorboard. One night unable to control his urges, he enters the room and does the same things of husband and he has sex with her with no resistance, her eyes closed. The two perform the act repeatedly until they fall in love with each other. The husband finds out that his wife is cheating on him, when one day he walks in on them while they are having sex, and shoots them both. He then shoots himself while having sex with his dead wife.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: France

When a small town of Normandy begins losing its citizenry in a series of strange deaths, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied son (Lucas Belvaux) and his possessive and manipulative mother (Stephane Audran) ? Or a pushy trio of local public figures and land developers wanna-be?

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Yugoslavia | Hungary | Austria | West Germany

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | West Germany

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu’s films.

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Director: Tom Holland
Stars: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Stefan Iordache, Gheorghe Cozorici, Ion Ritiu
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity.

Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Stars: Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are threatened by a planned marine park. Tatsuo is a macho lumberjack who hunts boars and monkeys with the young Ryota. Tatsuo is married with two children, has four elder sisters, and is under pressure to sell the family land to the developers. When the fish pens are deliberately contaminated by oil, the fishermen suspect Tatsuo. Kimiko, an old girlfriend of Tatsuo, returns to the village to find money to pay off her debts. During the annual fire festival, Tatsuo becomes angry when the old traditions are not preserved.

Director: Suzana Amaral
Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, “I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola.” Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

Director: Shinji Sômai
Stars: Yuichi Mikami, Yûki Kudô, Tomokazu Miura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.

Director: John Erman
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young lawyer hasn’t told his parents about his homosexuality. Now he must tell them–at a time when the diagnosis was still a death sentence–that he has AIDS.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | UK

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

Director: Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Bruno Cremer, Aurore Clément, Rebecca Hampton
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immerses in her books, her music, and her dancing casts a dispassionate yet ultimately touching eye on the girl’s reaction to the new upheaval in her life.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: David McCullough, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Documentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985.

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Stars: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Álvarez
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t tell Rosa he’s seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he’ll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon’s peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war’s end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Juliette Binoche, Wadeck Stanczak
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.

Director: Alejandro Doria
Stars: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina

Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Director: Luis Puenzo
Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Argentina

During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Ornette Coleman, John Giordano, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

It captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983, it chronicles his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: George Alexandru, Anda Onesa, Valentin Uritescu
Genre: War
Country: Romania

The Last Assault is a 1986 Romanian drama film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It is set during World War II, during the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she’s sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she’ll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she’s not sure she’s ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn’t want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan’s cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine?

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander, Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they’ll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | Yugoslavia

The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínský
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the “town idiot,” sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is such a sweet-natured fool that Pavek, exasperated as he becomes, always relents on his threats to find another partner. This Laurel and Hardy-like pair are at the heart of a comedy which finds humor in an abundance of everyday situations. The town doctor regularly wrecks his car because he’s admiring the scenery, a romantic teenager develops a hopeless crush on his sister’s schoolteacher, and an adulterous housewife and her boyfriend are just one step ahead of her suspicious, hot-headed husband.

Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico

A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.

Director: Toyoo Ashida
Stars: Kaneto Shiozawa, Michie Tomizawa, Seizô Katô
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her, and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Lucy meets George in a Florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil. However, it isn’t long before George unexpectedly enters her life again.

Director: Takashi Ito
Stars: Hiroko Emori
Genre: Short
Country: Japan

A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.

Director: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: UK

Loosely based on the Mesopotamian “Epic of Gilgamesh”, here Gilgamesh is portrayed as a grotesque, Picasso-esque being who uses a tricycle to patrol his box-shaped kingdom that hovers above a dark abyss.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Geoffrey Palmer
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: UK

Greenaway’s documentary short shows us…well, 26 bathrooms, some in use by their owners while we visit. Whee!

Director: Maya Deren, Cherel Ito, Teiji Ito
Stars: John Genke, Joan Pape
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary film about Haitian vodou.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Matthew Broderick, John Kani, Zakes Mokae
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.

Director: Piotr Szulkin
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Maureen Sullivan, Warren Robert Jason, Noreen Hennesey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In this cult doc from 1985, director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the then-new discipline of sexual therapy. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped, and what emerges is a disarming and compassionate look at the struggles people face in connecting with one another.

Director: Jim Goddard
Stars: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Lucy Gutteridge
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler’s power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism after the SA is disbanded and Karl is thrown into prison and later conscripted into the German army. Brother is pitted against brother until their relationship, and the Third Reich, stands in ruins.

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Moreno D’E Bartolli, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A family is deeply affected by father’s extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of Tito-Stalin split.

Director: Peter Masterson
Stars: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Italy

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy

Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?

Director: Alex Cox
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty – and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.

Director: Martin Bell
Stars: Annie, Eddie, Antoine
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.

Director: Jack Gold
Stars: Denis Lawson, Rita Wolf, Phyllis Logan
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

Director: Rolan Bykov
Stars: Christina Orbakaite, Yuriy Nikulin, Elena Sanaeva
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Unpopular girl being bullied in her class.

Director: Milos ‘Misa’ Radivojevic
Stars: Sonja Savic, Rade Serbedzija, Milena Dravic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

A romantic thoughtful interview intended student list entirely changed the lives of two people, professors and eminent students.

Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Héctor Alterio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina | Spain

In 1840’s Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children’s school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple’s identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila’s family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.

Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Stars: Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre F. Fauteux
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is customary) in the home. These incidents contrast old ways and new ways, young and old, ritual ceremony and true feelings, often comically, but sometimes with real poignancy.

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

A look at the employees and shoppers at the Neiman-Marcus department in Dallas, Texas during the holiday season.

Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he’s their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.

Director: Juliusz Machulski
Stars: Wieslaw Michnikowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Lukaszewicz
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland | Czechoslovakia

Two scientists are placed in hibernation and should be awaken after three years. But when they wake up, it turns out that it has been fifty years, and they are the only two males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Philip Baker Hall
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career – and the “true” reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.

Director: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintery wasteland.

Director: Paul Cox
Stars: John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

The film follows the dissolution of John and Helen’s marriage and the aftermath.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Karin Bergman
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Sweden

A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman’s personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Angela Punch McGregor, Drew Forsythe, Liddy Clark
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

In the 1970s, Jessica Hathaway (Angela Punch McGregor) joins the staff of Brentwood Hospital, a government facility for handicapped children in Melbourne, Australia. One of her patients is Annie O’Farrell (Tina Arhondis), whose cerebral palsy has kept her institutionalized since the age of 3. Convinced the girl, now 13, has been misdiagnosed as legally retarded, Jessica teaches her to communicate through a Ouija board in this true story about the fight to free Annie from institutional care.

Director: Rajko Grlic
Stars: Gorica Popovic, Vitomira Loncar, Bogdan Diklic
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia

This movie, based in part on the popular novel, tells two tales about modern women. One is Stefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who is desperately trying to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie abozt Stefica and has the same problem.

Director: Béla Tarr
Stars: Hédi Temessy, Erika Bodnár, Miklós Székely B.
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

Director: Tengiz Abuladze
Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A young boy sets out to revive his dead pet using the monstrous power of science.

Director: Takashi Ito
Stars: Bin Shimada
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: Japan

Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.

Director: Alejandro Doria
Stars: Luis Brandoni, Dora Baret, Luisina Brando
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina

The film centers on a unsuccessful doctor and his patient, whom everyone believes has no hope of ever recovering from a recent accident, and the daily events of a public hospital in Argentina.

Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Sílvia Gracia, Iñaki Aierra, Rafael Díaz
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide.

Director: John Duigan
Stars: Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia | Canada

In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.

Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Jane Fonda, Levon Helm, Amanda Plummer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels, a pioneer woman and the mother of five from the Kentucky hills who is forced to uproot her children to follow her husband Clovis (Levon Helm) to Detroit when he finds work during World War II. One setback follows another and shattering tragedy strikes the family. It’s all up to Gertie to find new strength, courage and determination to keep her family together and strong.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Director: Silvio Tendler
Stars: Leonel Brizola, João Goulart, Juscelino Kubitschek
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Brazil

The story of João “Jango” Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

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

A concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin
Genre: Short
Country: France

Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Petr Cepek, Josef Somr
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Three veterans are given magic artifacts by elves that can magically create gold, servants and any other object. They encounter greedy characters and one of them falls in love with a princess.

Director: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass
Stars: John Abbott, Noah Hathaway, David Comfort
Genre: Short, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

On a distant planet, descendants of a crashed spaceship are subjected to mysterious forces that cause them to age and die in just eight days. They must also live in caves to escape the bitter cold of night and the killing heat of day. One young boy is determined to find his way back to the ship that brought them there. But how will accomplish this in the short time left to him?

Director: Mark Zakharov
Stars: Elena Valyushkina, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Abdulov
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family’s country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love… to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his “magic”, he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner and guests (e.g. gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-30s Harlem.

Director: Nanni Loy
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Sastri, Aldo Giuffrè
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy

During a debate in Naples’ town hall in the early 80s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Hervé Mangani, Louis Bec, Saskia Cohen Tanugi
Genre: Short
Country: France

A real estate agent tries to sell a 7-room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners.

Director: Geo Saizescu
Stars: Emil Hossu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Dem Radulescu
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Romania

During the communist era in Romania, a reporter finds an incredibly well organized network of a local winery. The whole movie is a satire of the communist regimes’ absurd economical and social rules.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blur.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan

Hiroshi Teshigahara’s camera takes us over, under, around, and into buildings and a park designed by Antonio Gaudí (1852 – 1926), Catalan architect, ceramist, and sculptor.

Director: Slobodan Sijan
Stars: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia

A mentally disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta
Genre: Drama
Country: India

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband’s visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | USA

The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Danielle Pearse, Don Reid, Anna Maria Monticelli
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: Australia

The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality become apparent at an investigation of an alledged sexual harassment case.

Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Stars: Carlos Vereza, Glória Pires, Nildo Parente
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Graciliano Ramos’ period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: James Mason, Alan Bates, Greta Scacchi
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby, to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money. Death for money?

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, François Michel
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Soviet Union

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors, calls to mind the bustling tapestries of Robert Altman. The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.

Director: Nicos Perakis
Stars: Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Takis Spyridakis
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece

The “adventures” of some friends during their military service.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma
Genre: Drama
Country: France

An elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family’s peculiar characters.

Director: Marek Kanievska
Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

Director: Leo De Boer, Jurriën Rood
Stars: Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Dominique Sanda
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.

Director: Donatella Baglivo
Stars: Donatella Baglivo, Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

Tarkovsky expounds on his life and work, the essential importance of fighting, the conceptual nonexistence of happiness, what childhood determines about us, wartime’s impact on fantasies, and the salutary effects of a year laboring in Siberia.

Director: Dang Nhat Minh
Stars: Lê Vân, Luu Viet Bao Dang, Phu Cuong Lai
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam

Duyen faces a daily struggle to care for her young son and her weakened father-in-law, while keeping secret the fact that her husband died in a battle during the war.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Dick Pillar, Walter Szczypula, Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A portrait of the life, culture and food surrounding the lovers of Polka music. The title is taken from an old Polka standard. Stars of the Polka world are highlighted.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A documentary of the caryatids in Paris accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland | Italy | West Germany

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia’s mother is sick, but would recover by available medicine. Somehow the mother, but not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket. Realizing that Emilia would never abandon her, the mother secretly throws away the daily doses given her by Emilia, and dies. Somehow Emilia discovers her mother’s sacrifice and refuses to benefit from it. She gives the ticket to a female friend and retreats to a cloister, living like the nuns except not wearing their dress and not having given a promise to stay forever.

Director: Heinz Schirk
Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria | West Germany

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” can be best implemented.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Manos Katrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | West Germany | Italy | UK

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for.

Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK

A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: François Périer, Sophie Garnier, Bibiane Kirby
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A computer generates conflicting hypotheses about the future of trade unions.

Director: Vadim Abdrashitov
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Sergey Shakurov, Sergey Nikonenko
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union

In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. A rare astronomical phenomenon – the parade of planets – has a peculiar effect on several of the men.

Director: Ken Burns, Amy Stechler
Stars: Mildred Barker, Olga Bellin, Tucker Burr
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Ken Burns examines the American utopian 19th century religious sect known as the Shakers.

Director: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
Stars: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Director: Márta Mészáros
Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Teri Földi, Anna Polony
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary

From one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman (Juli) returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it also.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Daniel Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

A chronicle of the making of Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar winning film.

Director: Fred Barzyk
Stars: Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Stars: Slavko Stimac, Danilo ‘Bata’ Stojkovic, Mira Banjac
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Noriko Ohara, Mieko Nobusawa, Kazuyo Aoki
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

In the future, some humans build a spaceship to abandon earth. The spaceship crashed in an island isolated from the rest of the world. The story takes place when there are only 2 survivors in the island: Conan a boy born in the island and his grandfather. Then the world discover them.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Keith Carradine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Israel

Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan’s dad’s advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Stars: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.

Director: Michael Radford
Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | West Germany

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg’s “A Dream Play.” She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler’s star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna’s mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | Australia

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa
Genre: History, Musical
Country: France | Italy | Algeria

Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.

Director: Gerald Kargl
Stars: Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Silvia Ryder
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria

A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

Daniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.

Director: Gregory Nava
Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

Peasants escaping mindless labor and a murderous Guatemalan government head to America in hopes for something better.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt, Morten Hoff
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

In the early ’60s, 3 Danish classmates join a “den”/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later escalates.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee’s drama. Antonio (the choreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then turns similar to the play.

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: 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.