Tag: Priority 3

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mike Leigh
Stars: Brid Brennan, Des McAleer, Paula Hamilton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Catholic and a Protestant couple in Northern Ireland have amazing parallels in their lives, despite being either side of the divide.

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

A documentary about Ozu’s life and career.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Agnes Varda’s documentary on murals in Los Angeles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: George Cukor
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland | France

Set in the late ’20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.

Director: Jeff Stein
Stars: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Keith Moon
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

From the early black and white days to their colourful hedonistic era, you will Rock! See them at their most creative, and destructive, and experience The Who: Here!

Director: Don Coscarelli
Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk, Iwona Biernacka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski “Wyzwolenie”) with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.

Director: Grigori Kromanov
Stars: Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie-making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

Director: Franc Roddam
Stars: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK

Jimmy loathes his job and parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding and drugs, only to be disappointed.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Mehdi Azadbakht, Mohammadreza Barati, Hedayat Matin Daftari
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Iran

While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can’t find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises. In the first case after some days, one of the dismissed students tells teacher the truth. In the second case, no one tells teacher the truth and the period of punishment finishes. Kiarostami asks some of the most famous people in Iran about their views on these two cases.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Genre: Family, Adventure, Crime
Country: India

This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to start investigation. Feluda comes in direct confrontation with Maganlal Meghraj (Utpal Dutt), a ruthless trader. Maganlal makes the mild-mannered Lalmohan a knife-thrower’s target and threatens Felu to stop investigation. But there are several other suspects as an innocent artisan is brutally murdered, a shady ‘holy man’ holds court on the banks of the Ganges and an adventure-loving little boy (and his grand-father), brought up on crime thrillers.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: USA

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

Director: Edward Zebrowski
Stars: Piotr Dejmek, Jerzy Binczycki, Henryk Bista
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is “peculiar” and a drug addict. Then the German Gestapo arrives. The commandant asks for the list of patients, sorts out the “Aryan” doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the Nazi soldiers appear.

Director: Nikos Nikolaidis
Stars: Alkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Rita Bensousan
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of “accidental” murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years… All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost…

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.

Director: Patrick Montgomery
Stars: Edward Binns, Paul Kohner, Marcel Dalio
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK | West Germany

Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Uncompromising and rigid, he battled the studio system for control over his pictures’ content, and his career had many ups and downs as a result. Through interviews, photos, and archival footage, The Man You Loved to Hate explores von Stroheim’s career. The title refers to von Stroheim’s frequent casting as a German villain in films of the early 1940s. Von Stroheim’s last famous acting role was in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Colin Cantlie, Jean Williams
Genre: Short
Country: UK

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through “H”, aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.

Director: David Munro
Stars: John Pilger, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: UK

Disturbing documentary, shot on site less than a year after the Khmer Rouge downfall, depicting the shocking situation and recent history of Cambodia.

Director: Ishu Patel
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: Canada

A psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Canada

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur’s Round Table.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Hiroki Iwase
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi – and his very surprised and angry wife Oume disappears.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he’s been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A short comedy animation about human endeavors in flight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary film about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Stars: André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk’s own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his ‘Contes immoraux’, it was released first as a separate short, and is therefore marks the turning-point between Borowczyk’s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

Director: Mel Stuart
Stars: The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, Kim Weston
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Music
Country: USA

Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

Maury Dann (Rip Torn, in one of his most memorable performances) is a not-so-nice country-Western singer. He ruthlessly manipulates everyone around him to suit his selfish needs…he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan whom he stabbed.

Director: Wojciech Has
Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn’t seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

Director: Herbert Ross
Stars: Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José María Prada
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

The young but travelled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch is a sick old woman obsessed by death and having constant nervous breakdowns; her son José was raised dressing in girl’s clothes until his First Communion and is obsessed by military clothes and paraphernalia; Juan, the father of the three girls, a pervert since his childhood, writes pornographic letters to Ana; his wife, Luchy, has suicidal tendencies; and the mystic and religious eremite Fernando, who was inflicted to flagellation in his childhood, lives as a recluse in a cave. The presence of Ana disturbs the three brothers with tragic consequences.

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne’s husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre’s wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne’s husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre’s wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will “benefit the town”, and wants Pierre’s political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife’s affair…

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Annie Girardot, Mireille Darc, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy

An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a “gentleman caller” appears, things move to crisis point.

Director: Dan Curtis
Stars: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food consisting of plankton from the oceans. In New York City, when Soylent’s member of the board William R. Simonson is murdered apparently by a burglar at the Chelsea Towers West where he lives, efficient Detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the case with his partner Solomon “Sol” Roth. Thorn comes to the fancy apartment and meets Simonson’s bodyguard Tab Fielding and the “furniture” (woman that is rented together with the flat) Shirl and the detective concludes that the executive was not victim of burglary but executed. Further, he finds that the Governor Santini and other powerful men want to disrupt and end Thorn’s investigation. But Thorn continues his work and discovers a bizarre and disturbing secret of the ingredient used to manufacture Soylent Green.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Stars: Marthe Nadeau, J. Léo Gagnon, Marcel Sabourin
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn’t have long to live. But after more than 70 years in the same house, he doesn’t want to die anywhere else. His wife, Rose, has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.

Director: Emile de Antonio
Stars: Philip Leider, Leo Castelli, Willem de Kooning
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.

Director: Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch
Stars: Véronique Alain, Romain Bouteille, François Béranger
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with “We stop everything” and the second “After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say “This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics”. The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.

Director: Alexander Kluge
Stars: Alexandra Kluge, Franz Bronski, Bion Steinborn
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Roswitha is working to carry out illegal abortions, to support her husband and two children. The police discovers her and the husband is arrested. Roswitha gets involved in social work and politics.

Director: Rollin Binzer
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A concert film taken from two Rolling Stones concerts during their 1972 North American tour.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A teenager must deal with his divorced father’s homosexuality.

Director: Bob Fosse
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Maria Brunner, Wolfgang Bächler, Ute Ellin
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.