Tag: Priority 3

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Argentina | Canada

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he’s searching for when his ideal of love’s pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?

Director: Joshua Waletzky
Stars: Philip Bosco, Elmer Bernstein, Claudine Bouché
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA | UK | France

This documentary is a good introduction to the genius that was Bernard Herrmann. It is a good overview of his turbulent personality as well as providing brief examples of his music.

Director: Robert Morin
Stars: Gildor Roy, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Brigitte Paquette
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada

The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.

Director: Tracy Atkinson, Joan Baran, Dave Flitton
Stars: Patrick Allen, Madjid Blavatsky, Rudolf Gorsleben
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Four volume documentary set (“Adolf Hitler”, “The SS Blood and Soil”, “The Enigma of the Swastika”, and “Himmler The Mystic”) containing mainly B&W as well as some color archival footage, with narration explaining the influences of alternative belief systems (occult, paganism, mysticism, etc) on the Nazi ideology and Hitler’s personal philosophy. Also documents the history and development of the ideas and symbols that would be used along with eugenicist racial politics to perpetrate the murder and oppression of millions during World War II.

Director: Aleksandr Petrov
Stars: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Genre: Animation, Short, Drama
Country: Russia

Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” tells the story of a desperate man disenchanted with the world and at the verge of committing suicide. But when a little girl comes his way asking for help, he changes his mind. Back at his home, he falls asleep and dreams about strange revealing things that somehow put everything into a new perspective. And then comes the questioning: the visions were just another dream or something real?

Director: Vera Chytilová
Stars: Bolek Polívka, Miroslav Donutil, Anna Pantuckova
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic

A hillbilly inherits millions and goes to the city, leaving his village to live a rich man’s life in post communist Czech Republic.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances.

Director: Nancy Savoca
Stars: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark | Sweden | France | Germany | Switzerland | Poland

Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia

The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.

Director: Stanley Kwan
Stars: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka Fai Leung
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong

Biopic of 1930’s Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu.

Director: John Sayles
Stars: Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Stephen Mendillo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the way of a major commercial development.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Utpal Dutt, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar
Genre: Drama
Country: India | France

A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman’s long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle-class perspective on the world.

Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Sihung Lung, Lai Wang, Bozhao Wang
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan | USA

All the while, Master Chu tries to find his place in the foreign American world.

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Stars: Joy Constaninides, Witold Schejbal
Genre: Short, Animation
Country: UK | France

A porcelain doll and a sleeping woman. How will they interact through her dreams?

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Soviet Union

A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo’s hut.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.

Director: Christopher Munch
Stars: David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Stars: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ôshima, Sabu Kawahara
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.

Director: Jonathan Heap
Stars: Jane Alden, Don Amendolia, John Bachelder
Genre: Short, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A man is stuck living his life in the same 59 minute time frame. He tries various methods of finding out why, eventually consulting a physicist.

Director: Seiji Arihara
Stars: Masako Ikeda, Katsue Miwa, Masako Nozawa
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan

Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. She’s a bit of a crybaby, which is no secret to those around her. She loves playing with friends and singing cute schoolyard chants, and occasionally having fun with her three older brothers. Her mother is pregnant, and so she looks forward to being a big sister, only partially understanding the responsibility that might bring. Meanwhile, the war effort is growing, and it’s only the natural thing to do to be patriotic and support the country…

Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium | France | Germany

Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred’s good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can’t help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred’s, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.

Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland | UK | USA

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: UK

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: Jason Robards, Red Barber, Erik Barnouw
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium. Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the responsibility for its invention and early success.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Greece | Switzerland | Italy

A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.

Director: Bernt Amadeus Capra
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Philosophical conversations between a poet, politician, and scientist.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France | Italy

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives are collide in their family estate.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland | Germany | UK

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Director: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland

When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect “bourgeois elements”, a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Director: Su Friedrich
Stars: Jessica Meyerson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his family, and of a daughter who was deeply affected by his behavior. Working in counterpoint to the forceful text are sensual black and white images that depict both the extraordinary and ordinary events of daily life. Together, they create a formally complex and emotionally intense film.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Germany

In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Ajit Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India | France | UK

Four brothers converge around an ailing father.

Director: James Foley
Stars: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A voyage into the museum’s reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and painting retouches by experts, to the personnel instruction on how to be efficient in protecting the collections, and look nice to the visitors.

Director: Mark Kitchell
Stars: Jentri Anders, Joan Baez, Frank Bardacke
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkely in the 1960’s.

Director: Richard Pearce
Stars: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.

Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.

Director: Vitali Kanevsky
Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Director: Edward Zwick
Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Director: Pedro Costa
Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don’t seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It’s their secret. Clara, the primary school assistant, is fascinatingly beautiful, and secretive, and (may be) she knows it aswel. There are other secrets, though: the origin of the money that appears at Vicente’s house; the relationship between Vicente’s well-to-do uncle and his girlfriend; the relationship between the four people who once played the cards together, and now can’t stand each other.

Director: Jorge Fons
Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico

A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968’s Olimpic games’ to develop normally.

Director: John Duigan
Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA | Mexico

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Director: Marco Risi
Stars: Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?

Director: Ryszard Bugajski
Stars: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she’s there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

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

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman profiles the doctors, nurses, physicians, and patients at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, as he watches medical staff work around the clock trying to provide care and comfort for patients possibly experiencing the last moments of their lives and console family members of the patients in addition.

Director: Uli Edel
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | West Germany | USA

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

Director: Martin Arnold
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Austria

Arnold’s original material is a piece of found-footage from the 50s. 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an arm-chair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold’s film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But pièce touchée is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions and delays it displays challenge Hollywood’s stable system of space and time.

Director: Nikolay Volev
Stars: Irini Jambonas, Hristo Shopov, Rashko Mladenov
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

Margarit and Margarita are high school senior students. They are madly in love. And so proud and independent that they are often in trouble with their parents and teachers. They quit school to live life their own way, only to face a world or corruption and brutality. Margarit would make no compromise and would not get involved in a game with shady rules. Margarita is more willing to do so in the name of their future together. A big manager takes her under his wing and shows himself to be a corrupt womanizer. Margarit cannot stand the debauchery of their ‘protector’ and kills him. After his sentence he puts an end to his life and unable to live her life this way, so does Margarita.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey
Genre: Drama
Country: India

In this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town’s temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | West Germany

Herzog’s documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe’s spectacular courtship rituals and ‘beauty pageants’, where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Rade Markovic, Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Director: Andrzej Fidyk
Stars: Andrzej Fidyk
Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland

North Korea, late 1980s. The communist authorities hold enormous parades celebrating the 40th anniversary of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and worshipping its leader, Kim Ir Sen. But all this splendor, pomp and incredible lavishness is also to eclipse sports olympics taking part in South Korea.

Director: Jon Alpert
Stars: Freddy, Michael Jandreau, Robert
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA

Documentary maker Jon Alpert follows three petty criminals in Newark. Filmed by a hidden camera, the three are stealing, using drugs, getting caught and convicted.

Director: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France | Italy | West Germany | Canada | UK

When Louis XVI summoned the Etats-Generaux, he unleashes a revolution that would change his country and cost his life. This is the story of one of the crucial points in the history of France, and Europe, divided into two parts.

Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Stars: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince’s love.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet
Genre: Drama
Country: France | West Germany | Cameroon

A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon – formerly a colonial outpost – where she’s flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
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Director: Béla Tarr
Stars: Miklós Székely B., Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary | West Germany | Austria

A man’s story parallels Hitler’s rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He’s in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen’s future?

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Udo Kier, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the throne. In exchange, Medea and the boys are to be banished. Jason explains that his actions ensure a rich future for Medea and her sons. She asks that she be allowed to stay; Kreon refuses. She asks for one more day, and begs Jason to seek the king’s permission to allow their sons to stay in Corinth. Jason agrees and Medea prepares a gift for her sons to give to Glauce. Will Medea leave peacefully?

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Ingvar Carlsson, Tage Erlander, Rollo May
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | West Germany

When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: David McCullough, Charles McDowell, Barbara Fields
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The U. S. Congress is one of the country’s most important and misunderstood institutions. Ken Burns tells the story behind this branch of government.

Director: Vladimir Tarasov
Stars: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Vasiliy Livanov, Aleksandr Pashutin
Genre: Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union

A starship crashed on an uninhabitate planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mountain passage.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: France | USA

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Director: Raymond Depardon
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Hôtel-Dieu, a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable help from the police, but all of them are in need of medical attention.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her fourties, get absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14 years old boy.

Director: Thomas Schlamme
Stars: Spalding Gray, Bonnie Crotty, Ron Dunham
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In this comedic monologue, Spalding Gray talks about impulse-buying an old cabin in the woods and the various, constant upkeep required.

Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | India | France

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he had trashed. Krishna is left behind by the circus and he takes a train to Bombay. Krishna is called Chaipau by the street children of Bombay and he works delivering and selling tea for Chacha, who owns a street bar. Krishna befriends the heroin addicted Chillum that sells drugs for the drug dealer and caftan Baba Golub, and the girl Manju Golub, who is the daughter of Baba with the prostitute Rekha Golub.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean Bouise, Laurence Côte, Lydia Andrei
Genre: Drama, Short, Romance
Country: France

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context. That’s “The Power of Speech”.

Director: Frank Martin
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | Netherlands

Three generations of women all share the same problem: marriage woes, and they want to put an end to it.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Sergio Rubini, Antonella Ponziani, Maurizio Mein
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy

Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.

Director: Tony Palmer
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Netherlands | UK | Denmark | West Germany | Sweden

The story of the great Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Mustafa Nadarevic, Anica Dobra, Milorad Mandic-Manda
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia | UK

Piano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood, as well as by political oppression in his youth. Decades later, all those traumas lead to carnage.

Director: Barry Levinson
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Maria Chwalibóg, Boguslaw Linda, Pawel Witczak
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. They live in a drab apartment. She is a mail carrier and her son is her only pride and joy. She hardly communicates with anybody else in a humanly open and natural way. She also cares for a sick relative. One day when delivering a monthly pension to a crippled young miner Jacek, she faints at his doorsteps. Even though she is determined to live alone after divorcing her drunken first husband, she also knows that her boy needs a male figure to correct his bad habits. She also needs a man badly. The love affair between Jacek and Irena begins however their first physical encounter shatters them both.

Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

Van’s father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van’s grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people’s home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people’s home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.

Director: James Benning
Stars: Rhonda Bell, Elion Sucher
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In “Landscape Suicide” Benning continues his examination of Americana through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Prott was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984. Benning’s distanced approach to such grisly material is as far removed as possible from sensationalism, however. Although the acts of murder are both bizarre and violent, Benning dwells on them only minimally, emphasizing instead the details of psychological motivation, which in both cases seem frighteningly mundane.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Lin Yang, Fan Yang, Shu-Fen Hsin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan

The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Teresa Peacock, Sherry Dorst, Tobe Melora Correal
Genre: Short, Documentary
Country: USA

A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek’s life.

Director: Jack Gold
Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK | Yugoslavia

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.

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

Dante’s Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: 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: 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.