Tag: Priority 4

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

The visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.

Director: Al Reinert
Stars: Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Russell Schweickart
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: UK | USA | West Germany

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

Director: Jorge Furtado
Stars: Paulo José, Ciça Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Brazil

The ironic, heartbreaking and acid “saga” of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a “Nisei” (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer’s kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in “Ilha das Flores”; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Director: Stanley Kwan
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, Yat-Gam Chu
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong | USA

Three very different Asian women forge a friendship in New York.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Ellen Greene, Richard Thomas, James Whitmore
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada | UK

A radio preacher’s operation is controlled by his honest but colorless son. When the preacher is promoted into a media superstar by a savvy huckster, the son is left behind.

Director: Wendell B. Harris Jr.
Stars: Wendell B. Harris Jr., Timothy Alvaro, Dave Barber
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he’s had enough. His solution is to re-invent himself. He becomes a chameleon, taking on whatever role suits the situation. From reporter to doctor to lawyer, he impersonates anyone he sees a need for and he can earn money being. The movie is based on the real people, William Douglas Street, Jr., and Erik Dupin.

Director: Adam Davidson
Stars: Scotty Bloch, Clebert Ford, Bernard Johnson
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: USA

A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.

Director: Pekka Parikka
Stars: Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland

In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.

Director: Alejandro Agresti
Stars: Tito Haas, Mirta Busnelli, Sergio Poves Campos
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Canada | Netherlands

As an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn’t remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn’t recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Laura Benson, Adolph Green, Linda Lavin
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | Switzerland

A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette’s work as a whole.

Director: Euzhan Palcy
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.

Director: David O. Russell
Stars: Bette Davis, Julie Follansbee, William Hickey
Genre: Short
Country: USA | Canada

Early David O. Russell short.

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

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it’s not easy at all.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.

Director: Michael Roemer
Stars: Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A small-time Jewish racketeer, just out of prison, finds himself in a quandary. Returning to his old neighborhood, he finds that the streets that he and his friends once controlled have now been taken over by blacks and Hispanics. On top of that, he must try to get back with his family, who want nothing to do with him.

Director: Fons Rademakers
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | West Germany | Austria

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband’s very difficult to accept.

Director: Frédéric Rossif
Stars: Philippe Meyer
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

A two-part TV documentary on World War II, made exclusively from archive footage.

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemí Frenkel, Hugo Soto
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina | Spain

Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work.

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Sigalon Sagna, Saly Badji, Binta Cissé
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France | West Germany | Italy

The film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly encroaching.

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

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France

Intense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.

Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA | West Germany

A kindly but thieving shopaholic tries to turn her mistakes around, but does so by becoming a skilled computer hacker, something that could only get her into more trouble despite her goal to impress her beloved family.

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

An experimental short by Stan Brakhage which mixes and overlaps various footage filmed in Mesa Verde.

Director: Robert Denny, David Hoffman
Stars: Norman Rose, Adolf Galland, Hans Adolf Jakobson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Through interviews with former World War II fighter aces, “How Hitler Lost the War” examines the theory that the German Armed Forces substantially won and then lost the war in Europe before 1942. That had it not been for the political and military mistakes of Adolf Hitler, the United States would have had to stand alone against a Nazi Europe allied with an even more powerful Japan, and face a future that is barely imaginable.

Director: Juraj Jakubisko
Stars: Bolek Polívka, Borek Dlouhý, Ivan Drozdy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia | West Germany

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.

Director: Adrian Maben
Stars: Adrian Maben, Candice Bergen, Tina Brown
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: West Germany

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He’s on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work. It’s not art and it’s not good taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects.

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: USA

A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Director: Coline Serreau
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France

A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Wim Wenders, Yohji Yamamoto
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany | France

Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.

Director: Tunç Basaran
Stars: Ozan Bilen, Nur Sürer, Füsun Demirel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey

Baris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.

Director: Nigel Finch
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

A look back at the lives and careers of the Rolling Stones.

Director: John Erman
Stars: Bernadette Peters, John Glover, Dan Lauria
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The true story of David Rothenberg whose disturbed father set him on fire.

Director: Chris Blum
Stars: Tom Waits, Michael L. Blair, Ralph Carney
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Finland

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Director: Ömer Kavur
Stars: Osman Alyanak, Aytaç Arman, Orhan Basaran
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

A confused script writer takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church at a remote village while looking for locations for his next film.

Director: Giacomo Battiato
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Stefania Sandrelli, Valérie Kaprisky
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy | France

As a boy the orphan Antonio Stradivari heard for the first time in his life the sound of a violin and he was fascinated by its voice. He tried to construct a violin and attracted the attention of Niccolò Amati, a famous lutist of Cremona. Antonio became apprentice in his bottega (workshop). Grown up, he fell in love for Francesca and he succeeded in marrying her. Afterwards he became more and more famous for his violins and he was granted a diploma from the king of Spain. After the death of his wife he was almost forced to marry again. He was chosen by Antonia Maria and it will be a happy marriage. In the background we have a look at the history of Northern Italy during the seventeenth century.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Stars: Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union

Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.

Director: Léa Pool
Stars: Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voïta
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada | Switzerland

A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.

Director: Tony Collingwood
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Gough, Ronnie Stevens
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: UK

The inhabitants of the strange and wonderful land of Rarg discover their world is no more than just the dream of a man.

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Stars: Vincent Gasperitsch, María Luisa García, François Négret
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who’s from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he’s doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno’s interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
Genre: Drama
Country: France

In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.

Director: Dennis O’Rourke
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia

When tourists journey to the furthermost reaches of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, is it the indigenous tribespeople or the white visitors who are the cultural oddity? This film explores the difference (and the surprising similarities) that emerge when “civilized” and “primitive” people meet. With dry humor and acute observation CANNIBAL TOURS explodes cultural assumptions as it provides a pointed look at a fabulous phenomenon.

Director: Bruce Weber
Stars: Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker’s earlier life and some modern-day performances.

Director: Miguel Pereira
Stars: Leopoldo Aban, Juan José Camero, Guillermo Delgado
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK | Argentina

A rural teacher in Jujuy, establishes a friendly relationship with the inhabitants of Chorcán, a small Andean village. Circumstances in EEE Outbreak of War of the Malvinas and one of his students, Verónico Cruz, is called for a Fight, running a Join the crew of the ARA General Belgrano, sunk on May 2, 1982.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Miroslav Kuchar
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

The film stars the same actor in every role. He plays a guy at home watching a soccer game, the players on the field AND the referee. However, this game ain’t normal in any sense!

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Camilla Søeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and “safe” village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it’s neither as quiet nor as safe as it’s expected to be.

Director: Krsto Papic
Stars: Davor Janjic, Alma Prica, Miodrag Krivokapic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

It’s the end of the 1980s, and Martin is being asked from his dying uncle Stipan to bury him with the presence of priest. Martin remembers the way they lost the contact in 1951 – Stipan informed on him when he wrote a composition in the school, expressing doubts about the land reform. He had got a bullet in the groin by accident; his pregnant wife fled to Trieste and then to Australia where she gave a birth to their son John.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: Henry Adams, Matthew Baigell, Earl Bennett
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA | Canada

Thomas Hart Benton’s paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Roberto and his three sisters don’t know what to do with their lives.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Bearthm Brakhage, Neowyn Brakhage, Rarc Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Phrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of sorrow as we watch a solitary man in shadows in an unadorned house: he stretches out, he picks his feet, he walks across a room, he rocks in a chair. Occasionally he watches two young children at play; the film sometimes speeds up. Handwritten words, like “dark void” and “waiting longing,” cross the screen. Film and phrases often come in short bursts. Outdoor it looks gray and cold.

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

Oscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead.

Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: France

Martial’s mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect one of the supermarkets. The manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. When exposed he expects to lose his job. Instead friendship develops between him and Martial who remitted the debt.

Director: Eli Cohen
Stars: Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Eli Cohen
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Israel

A ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel.

Director: Ludmil Staikov
Stars: Max Freeman, Rousy Chanev, Ivan Krystev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.

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

A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet. The doll, who’s sitting at a table, looks in a bowl that’s on the table. In it are more threads, looking like breakfast cereal. He needs a spoon; spoons appear. The fixed smile on the doll’s face is rewarded.

Director: Paul Grimault, Jacques Demy
Stars: Paul Grimault, Anouk Aimée, Mathieu Demy
Genre: Animation, Biography, Comedy
Country: France

While working at his editing table cartoon maker Paul Grimault is visited by a little clown, the star of his movie “Le Roi et l’Oiseau”. Paul, who is delighted, shows his guest several clips of his other films. Later on, they are joined by other animated characters created by Grimault until Anouk Aimée finally appears, in the flesh this time.

Director: Aleksandr Proshkin
Stars: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Lio
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France | West Germany

A successful entrepreneur in his fifties decides to abandon his loved ones and the empire he has built to find the liberty he yearns for, unaware that the itinerary of one’s life often changes in the funniest of ways.

Director: James Dearden
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Kevork Malikyan
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

1908: Basil Pascali (Sir Ben Kingsley), a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.

Director: George A. Romero
Stars: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK | West Germany

An account of Baron Munchausen’s supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentarô Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.

Director: Richard Hobert
Stars: Hans Mosesson, Bergljót Arnadóttir, Victoria Möllerström-Hjelm
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden

Two construction workers are offered an unusual contract. Great pay, but they don’t know where they’re going or what they are supposed to build. They are brought to a place with 12 months of summer.

Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cleveland
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.

Director: Alex Cox
Stars: Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | Mexico

An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

With the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.

Director: Nils Gaup
Stars: Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Norway

A Warband intent on slaughter terrorizes northern Scandinavian villages in 1000 AD.

Director: Stanley Kwan
Stars: Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Hong Kong

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong’s “flower houses” – bordellos and night clubs of the 1930’s. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir to a chain of pharmacies. They agree to a suicide pact. Jump ahead 50 years to modern Hong Kong: Fleur’s ghost appears in Yuen’s newspaper office, wanting to place an ad to find Chan, who never arrived in the afterlife. Yuen, and his equally bewildered girl friend, An Chor, are captivated by Fleur and her story.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Woody Allen, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Bahamas | France | Switzerland

Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespear Junior the Fifth to restore the lost artwork of the human race. He finds strange goings-on at a resort enough to remind him of all the lines of the play, dealing with mob boss Don Learo and his daughter Cordelia, a strange professor named Jean Luc-Godard (sic), who repeatedly xeroxes his hand for no particular reason. He is followed by four humanoid goblins that keep tormenting Cordelia. There is also the gentleman whose girlfriend, Valerie, isn’t always visible. Then the film is sent off to New York for Mr. Alien to edit.

Director: Patrice Leconte
Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Jean Rochefort, Sylvie Granotier
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez’s appearance of playful don Juan. When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez… Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.

Director: Christine Edzard
Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Arthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother’s seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Robin Renucci, Bernadette Lafont
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Hired to write a biography of a television personality, a reporter spends a few days at the man’s country estate with the eccentric extended family.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Allan De Waal, Ole Ernst, Michael Gelting
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.

Director: Vera Chytilová
Stars: Miroslav Machácek, Tomás Palatý, Stepánka Cervenková
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia

A group of teenagers are mysteriously invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder.

Director: Alex Cox
Stars: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: UK

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee. The townspeople are hostile to the outsiders at first, but seem to accept them once they’ve killed a couple of people. After a while, a mysterious man named Dade arrives, who seems to have unpleasant business to settle with the robbers. A free-for-all shoot-em-up ensues.

Director: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother’s old house in a small 1950s town.

Director: Hector Babenco
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

Director: Janusz Zaorski
Stars: Magda Teresa Wójcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol’s husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan

If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: John McNaughton
Stars: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary film about Haitian vodou.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unpopular girl being bullied in her class.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: David Hugh Jones
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

An affair between a literary agent and his best friend’s wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.

Director: Michael Tuchner
Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, JoBeth Williams, Martha Scott
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

After their child is abducted, John and Reve Walsh are trying to find him. But, shortly after that, Adam is found dead.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Stars: Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.

Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In 1930’s Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnès Soral
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner named Rashid, comes to the station needing a spark plug for a stolen Moped. He and Lambert connect somehow, and a few days later, they go for a drink. The young man is too cavalier, and when he swipes Rashid’s fancy motorcycle a couple of times, he’s expendable. Lambert decides to avenge the young man and seeks information from Lola, a punk who knew Bensoussan. With surprising perseverance, she pierces Lambert’s shell; he starts to feel again, tells Lola his story, and finds new enthusiasm for life.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel | France

An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It’s a tough case because of a strong political background.

Director: Lizzie Borden
Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government.

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Alberto Fumagalli, Antonio Cucciarrè, Eligio Martellucci
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy

The assuming of responsibility by individuals, the use of science for man and not against him, the duty of truth to increase the stature of people, all together: these are the important themes this movie debates in allegorical form. Roles are performed by non professional actors and actresses.

Director: Jos Stelling
Stars: Freek de Jonge, Jim van der Woude, Catrien Wolthuizen
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands

At the center of this extremely visualized narrative are the illusionist and his brother, who is lazy on the basis of either great love, or exorbitant envy of the brother. Having spoiled the sick son in a psychiatric hospital, the mother blesses the illusionist on a long journey with one suitcase. The ensuing whirlwind of events drags the heroes deeper into his turbulent whirlpool.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Stars: Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Director: Lynne Littman
Stars: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Lysak, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers’ arrest, and the aftermath.

Director: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also learning a great deal about life, both in and out of school, and not what school officials think they are teaching.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Michael Yama, Andy Lee, Alison Hong
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA

This is Tim Burton’s Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.

Director: Mel Damski
Stars: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK | Mexico

After serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.

Director: Garri Bardin
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, War
Country: Soviet Union

Film characters are ordinary matches. Quarrel that flared up over a trifle turns into a real battle, in which both hostile parties perished.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Aischa Bentebouche, Katherine Best, François Beukelaers
Genre: Documentary, Musical
Country: Belgium | France

This is a making of a musical, with Chantal Ackerman behind and in front of the camera.It is mostly a collection of clips, talks, directions, lectures….. with the camera capturing the whole adventure.

Director: Jim Klein, Julia Reichert
Stars: Oscar Hunter, Rose Podmaka, Sylvia Woods
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Federico Luppi, Víctor Laplace, Héctor Bidonde
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Argentina

A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.

Director: Nick Broomfield, Sandi Sissel
Stars: Fran, Walter Plankinton, Connie
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK | USA

Documentary on the “Chicken Ranch,” a legal Nevada brothel.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.

Director: Luc Besson
Stars: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France

In a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA | Mexico

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

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

Cycles of life, with fantasy elements. An ax splits wood. Bits of split wood move in stop-motion; one piece has a woman’s face near the top. Water streams in torrents; patches of snow give way to spring. A large black bird flies into the frame. It attacks and splinters the wood with the woman’s face. The piece of wood, whole again, becomes the bird’s body. It flies about, and it’s celebrated by other bits of wood. Then, a man leaves a house carrying an empty pail. He gathers bits of wood. A chimney smokes.

Director: John Schlesinger
Stars: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

The actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman. It turns out that he’s the notorious spy Guy Burgess.

Director: Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Tonino Guerra, Lora Jabloskina, Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

Like the Russian poet of ‘Nostalghia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator, traveled through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer, Andrei Tarkovsky, accompanied by his Italian script-writer, Tonino Guerra, travels through Italy in order to find the locations for their common filmed effort. During this journey, Guerra constantly induces Tarkovsky to reflect on his work and on his past as a film-maker and a poet. The result will be the masterpiece ‘Nostalghia’.

Director: Carroll Ballard
Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA

A government researcher, sent to research the “menace” of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Director: Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates
Stars: Rigoberta Menchú, Susan Sarandon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Guatemala

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov
Stars: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn’t commit.

Director: Carl Schultz
Stars: Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he’s six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS’s feckless, absent father, she asserts her rights and convinces Lila to have PS live with her weekdays. PS is happy at Lila’s, playing with children, running about, speaking up. At Vanessa’s, there’s a regimen of private school, round vowels, piano and riding lessons, and lonely indoor play with fancy toys. He’s miserable and when he objects, she sues for complete custody. Will anyone listen to him?

Director: John Korty, Charles Swenson
Stars: Lorenzo Music, Judith Kahan, Marshall Efron
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA

Two wannabe heroes and their friends must stop a madman from giving everyone nightmares.

Director: Jerry London
Stars: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA | UK | Italy

Vatican efforts, lead by Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.

Director: Dan Pita
Stars: Claudiu Bleont, Theodor Danetti, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants’ self and conscience.

Director: Ishmael Bernal
Stars: Nora Aunor, Veronica Palileo, Spanky Manikan
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany | France

Richard Wagner’s last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of the medieval epic romances of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail (the chalice touched by the lips of Christ at the last supper), it recounts over three long acts how a “wild child” unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the grail, fulfilling a prophecy that only such a one can save the grail’s protectors from a curse fallen upon them.

Director: Tim Burton, Jerry Rees
Stars: Mike Gabriel, Terrey Hamada, Susan Frankenberger
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A horrifying and touching movie about a tramps dream of fame.

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp’s killers don’t look too kindly on this new ‘business’, nor does the morgue’s owner.

Director: Tatyana Lioznova
Stars: Irina Muravyova, Yuriy Yakovlev, Klara Luchko
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl’s struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
Stars: Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan

The story follow a court case of a woman accused of having killed her husband.

Director: Patrick Bokanowski
Stars: Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: France

The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs. Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. Attacks, explosions, maniacal and despairing searching, objects which independently move, walls, floors and ceilings which form and disperse. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands | Italy

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo’s father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta’s bad reputation will affect the marriage prospects of Alfredo’s sister. Violetta reluctantly leaves Alfredo, but his love is so strong that it leads him to actions that have tragic consequences.

Director: Basu Chatterjee
Stars: Ashok Kumar, A.K. Hangal, Utpal Dutt
Genre: Comedy
Country: India

Three friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn’t do in their younger days – before death arrives.

Director: Robert Towne
Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.

Director: Slava Tsukerman
Stars: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters’ brains.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress’ mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Director: Mica Milosevic
Stars: Nikola Simic, Milan ‘Lane’ Gutovic, Rahela Ferari
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia

In this light, fluffy comedy, a low-level clerk cannot make ends meet because his brood is in no way economically cooperative: his daughter is a lawyer looking for work, unsuccessfully; his son is a would-be astronomer who wants to spend his life studying without working; and his other son wants his own wheels. It is enough to send a father to the lottery, or to the soccer pool.

Director: Péter Gothár
Stars: Anikó Iván, István Znamenák, Péter Gálfy
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.

Director: Witold Leszczynski
Stars: Krzysztof Majchrzak, Anna Seniuk, Joanna Sienkiewicz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree – a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.

Director: Károly Makk
Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Ildikó Bánsági, Grazyna Szapolowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy.

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK | USA

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Director: Béla Tarr
Stars: Judit Pogány, Róbert Koltai, Kyri Ambrus
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Director: Franco Piavoli
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy

The passage of time in different dimensions illustrated by biological evolution, the changing seasons and the everyday moments of human life.

Director: Lucian Pintilie
Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon’s lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza’s lover, while she is Cracanel’s lover. One letter starts the ball rolling and ugly characters start revealing themselves in a burlesque-like fashion.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman’s baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Director: Jin Xie, Shuqin Huang
Stars: Shimao Zhu, Shan Cong, Qiong Liu
Genre: Drama
Country: China

This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is deserted by her poor family. He Xiangdong, a woodworker, adopts her and rename her He Cuigu. To steer clear of arrest by the enemy, Dong Hongguo, offspring of a revolutionary family, is renamed Xiao Hua so as to be adopted by her adopter. Later, Zhao Yongsheng’s parents are killed by the enemy.

Director: Alan Greenberg
Stars: Micalon Stevenson, Jammy Galloway, Louie Lepkie
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

In May 1981, Alan Greenberg went to Jamaica to cover Bob Marley’s funeral. He ended up making a documentary showcasing the island’s culture. His “Land of Look Behind” features interviews with various Rastafari who talk about their philosophies.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Yoosef Moghaddam
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Iran

A deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can’t hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.

Director: Arnold Schwartzman
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Country: USA

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.

Director: Frank Henenlotter
Stars: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.

Director: Alan Gibson
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel’s prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.

Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

A brave unicorn (Mia Farrow) and a magician (Alan Arkin) fight an evil King (Sir Christopher Lee), who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world’s unicorns.

Director: Richard Benjamin
Stars: Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers that Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as a punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia’s “biggest fan”, helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style.

Director: Jan Troell
Stars: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden | West Germany | Norway

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Olivier Straub, Nadette Thinus, Bernard Thinus
Genre: Short
Country: France

The child Ernesto doesn’t want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn’t know.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands | UK | West Germany | France | Spain | Portugal | USA

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended (1955). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Director: George Schaefer
Stars: Bette Davis, Penny Fuller, Christopher Guest
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Family
Country: USA

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

Director: Don Bluth
Stars: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Frank Birney, David Worden, Ken Shapiro
Genre: Comedy, Short
Country: USA

Gus Van Sant’s early short film about “The Discipline of D.E.,” which is an extremely efficient way of doing things.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.

Director: Vince Collins
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Horror
Country: USA

A jet-propelled white rabbit flies through the vulva of a supine woman into a wonderland where people and objects turn inside out, changing shapes and identities at warp speed. Events roughly follow Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” The caterpillar and the queen make appearances, as does Alice. Images and symbols are often sexual. At the end, Alice asks, “Who has had such a curious dream?”

Director: Denys Arcand
Stars: Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Raymond Barre, Pierre Brodeur
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada

Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec’s independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians’ promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women’s relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie – but also in his own life.

Director: Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly
Stars: Richard Oxenburgh, Daniel Leahy, Mick Leahy
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia | Canada | USA

This documentary presents footage of the first contact between the highland tribes of Papua New Guinea, and European explorers. In the 1930s three Australian’s, Michael, Daniel and James Leahy were the first white people to venture into the vast New Guinean interior. They searched for gold and found 1 million highland tribespeople who had previously had no contact with the outside world. Amazingly, they took a film camera with them.

Director: Yorgos Apostolidis, Yannis Smaragdis, Yiannis Typaldos
Stars: Harry Klynn, Dimitris Piatas, Joly Garbi
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece

Peppered with unblushing advertisements against the backdrop of a new era in early-1980s Greece, Harry Klynn’s enthusiastic triptych unfolds, depicting an entire nation’s aspirations, desires, and fears before a brave new world.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Stars: Jerzy Binczycki, Anna Dymna, Tomasz Stockinger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village healer, not remembering who he is.

Director: Jacques Demy
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: John Albasiny, Alison Steadman, Abigail Cruttenden
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Alan Duckworth (known as ‘Quack Quack’ to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class. Alan daydreams throughout his day, showing up late for school and making little academic progress. He becomes friends with the groundsman Tommy, whom he sees as some sort of war hero. Alan often follows Tommy around, telling him how Tommy helped to win the war, while making predictions about what the post-war world will be like.

Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Stars: Caris Corfman, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Dragan Nikolic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Mel Ferrer, Michel Auclair
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France

A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician – the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist’s objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing – and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.

Director: Daniel Vigne
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man’s claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Director: Lou Adler
Stars: Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy

In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.

Director: Hans Alfredson
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson, Hans Alfredson
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.

Director: Efrem Pruzhanskiy
Stars: Marina Neyolova, Liya Akhedzhakova, Nikolay Karachentsov
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Stars: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer
Genre: Thriller
Country: France

Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Suzanne Flon, Sébastien Floche
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | France

Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France

Trough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert.

Director: Elem Klimov
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimately leads to his gruesome assassination.

Director: Francis Veber
Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France | Mexico | Malta

A daughter of a millionaire, distinguish by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant – to send after her an equally unlucky person.

Director: José Luis Garci
Stars: Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the dark underbelly of Madrid where he finds that he is not only one looking for the girl. Someone else is also interested in her, someone powerful and dangerous who will stop at nothing to prevent Areta from discovering the truth.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.

Director: Ilya Frez
Stars: Tatyana Aksyuta, Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Elena Solovey
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy’s mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Yasuda, Mariko Kaga
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron’s deceased wife.

Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Michael Huddleston
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town–who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent Sixties–is as much about the coming of age of America as it is about the changes the characters go through.

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy | West Germany | France

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

Director: William Dear
Stars: Michael Nesmith, Bill Martin, Lark Geib
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA

A collection of comedy skits and music videos, such as a game-show spoof called “Name That Drug”, a visit to the office of the Clandestine Typing Service, and a man providing a skewed translation of a Mexican serenade for his girlfriend.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Huie L. Rogers
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.

Director: Yves Boisset
Stars: Lucas Belvaux, Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Genre: War, Drama
Country: France

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He’s a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it’s coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines.

Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson, Tony Pitts
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

Three men face their mother’s death.

Director: Dusan Makavejev
Stars: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

Director: Ivan Passer
Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Andy Warhol
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Wiseman documentary about a modeling agency in NY.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Waclaw Ulewicz, Lech Grzmocinski, Tadeusz Bartosik
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A local party secretary (this is still the time when Poland was behind the iron curtain) has to face a mob of strikers protesting hefty increases in food prices by the central government. The embattled secretary decides at first to stick it out at the party’s office instead of making the recommended hasty escape. Most of the footage is from the point of view of the party secretary.

Director: Zoran Tadic
Stars: Ivica Vidovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Bozidarka Frajt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia