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: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Grace Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Shu-Fen Hsin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
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: John McNaughton
Stars: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity.
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…