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: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Soviet Union
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.