Tag: Priority 4

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

A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes based on statistical analyses. Intrigued by this talent, the teacher tells a married, female friend that the man seems to have done what he claims. Then the numbers show that there is a slip-up and a murder that was supposed to have occurred, did not. The stranger is adamant that a balance has to be achieved or the whole town will suffer – and he leaves.

Director: Jon Else
Stars: Hans Bethe, Holm Bursom, Haakon Chevalier
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sandrine Kljajic
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Melanie enjoys flirting and having little affairs. Her husband Victor seems to bear her antics with utmost calm and nonchalance. This impression turns out to be wrong, very wrong indeed.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Valeria D’Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house there is a strange young woman: Fosca (d’Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.

Director: John Laing
Stars: David Hemmings, John Hargreaves, Tony Barry
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous murder cases in New Zealand history. Did Arthur Thomas kill Jeannette and Harvey Crewe at their Pukekawa farm house? Arthur was sure that trusting the police and co-operating fully would prove his innocence. The police held a very different view of this simple farmer.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Trevor Howard, Mick Ford, Bernice Stegers
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France

Young unhinged female ex-con with a motorcycle helps a sickly young homeless woman in red discover what the map of Paris she took from her gangster boyfriend leads to.

Director: Nils Malmros
Stars: Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen, Line Arlien-Søborg
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

We follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.

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

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining flashing lights and colors. This is part of the Arabic Numeral Series.

Director: Manfred Kirchheimer
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing the gritty urban landscape of 1970s New York, to a commentary-free soundtrack that combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany | France

Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets some important people and discovers the everyday face of the war. He also has to figure out about his home life, where his marriage is in a big crisis.

Director: Ladislav Smoljak
Stars: Josef Abrhám, Libuse Safránková, Daniela Bakerová
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

Director: Leon Hirszman
Stars: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Union leader’s son doesn’t want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father’s tradition of political activism.

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

An experimental short by Stan Brakhage combining lights, colors, and film.

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

A collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal.

Director: Jim Brown
Stars: Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, “The Weavers,” and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.

Director: Janis Streics
Stars: Lilita Berzina, Olga Drege, Uldis Dumpis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

The struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt’s inheritance through comic and romantic events.

Director: Piotr Szulkin
Stars: Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland

Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders. Then the chaos breaks out: the Martians and police mistreat the populace; things become violent.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Vlastimil Brodský
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.

Director: Milos ‘Misa’ Radivojevic
Stars: Aleksandar Bercek, Dara Dzokic, Rade Markovic
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Yugoslavia

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts.

Director: Roman Kachanov
Stars: Olga Gromova, Vsevolod Larionov, Yuriy Volyntsev
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union

A group of peaceful space explorers find out a trail of a mysterious plot.

Director: Sheldon Renan
Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA | Japan

A documentary of the decline of America. It features footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.

Director: Maurice Pialat
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.

Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbert Wartha
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she’s in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Director: Ettore Scola
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

During a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.

Director: Pavlos Tasios
Stars: Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Katerina Gogou
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece

The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had “ordered” from the musicians.

Director: Zeki Ökten
Stars: Aytaç Arman, Güngör Bayrak, Coskun Aktemel
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey

Ismail is out of work despite am obvious willingness to do almost anything to earn enough to provide for his family. He is too well educated for the jobs he hopes to find, but not well enough connected to find the work he is capable of doing. He joins the labour market (much like the colonial slave markets of the 18th century) daily, only to return to his beloved and beautiful wife demoralized and without money. His wife, her mother, and their baby are totally dependent on him, so he submits to two humiliating tasks: poisoning the local stray dogs and begging his father for part of his inheritance.

Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Yvette, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Anne-Lise Gabold
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Denmark

A troubled and solitary woman who suffers from an acute light sensitivity summons the strength to escape her persistent trials; however, the fateful morning which is only hours away, still seems so distant and pale. Can she take the step?

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents’ estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he’s in the city, and Oblomov’s life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga’s, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?

Director: Elem Klimov
Stars: Elem Klimov, Valentin Rasputin, Stefaniya Stanyuta
Genre: Short, Biography
Country: Soviet Union

A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko’s films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art.

Director: Aleksandr Mitta
Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK

92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with “Fall.”

Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

A woman enters the afterlife briefly after a car crash that kills her husband. But she survives – and finds herself possessing strange powers.

Director: Erden Kiral
Stars: Yaman Okay, Erkan Yücel, Nur Sürer
Genre: Drama
Country: Trukey

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

Director: Jack Priestley
Stars: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

In 1975 and 1976 Paul McCartney and Wings undertook the epic Wings over the World tour, the largest scale tour they would ever undertake as a band. From this tour came both the legendary “Wings over America” triple live album and the concert film “Rockshow”.

Director: Goran Markovic
Stars: Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Snezana Niksic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Director: Ishmael Bernal
Stars: Charito Solis, Alma Moreno, Lorna Tolentino
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families’ conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word ‘Manila’ on its title.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist’s mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive an old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for personal and professional reasons.

Director: Richard Donner
Stars: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits.

Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: William Holden, Ricky Schroder, Jack Thompson
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia | USA

Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive …

Director: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Libya | USA

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.

Director: Roger Andrieux
Stars: Philippe Léotard, Laura Alexis, Evelyne Dress
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle’s outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson’s “Little Mermaid,” and she thinks that in Georges she’s found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she’s nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him a playful self, and he likes her devotion. The attraction builds, threatening Georges’ adult relationships, including that with Nelly, his sweetheart. Where on earth can this affair lead?

Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stars: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Genre: Documentary
Country: Yugoslavia

Identical young twin girls in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream. This means forcing them to speak normal English and lose their secret language. The filmmaker’s own questions about this process run across as text at the bottom of the screen, a first use of that technique in documentary.

Director: Krsto Papic
Stars: Petar Bozovic, Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

Director: Ivan Mikolaychuk
Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Les Serdyuk
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.

Director: Jean Eustache
Stars: Alix Clio-Roubaud, Boris Eustache
Genre: Short
Country: France

A woman, sharing with a man, important moments of her life.

Director: Jacques Duron
Stars: Philippe Bories, Bernard Flamain, Jeanne Barthélémy
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: France

A coming of age story about two great friends during the school years whose friendship is truly tested when one of the boys start to develop different feelings for the other. At first, it seems Philippe and Claude are just experimenting new sensations, everything is pure curiosity to them. But total reciprocity isn’t the name of the game and Philippe is clearly infatuated with his friend.

Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Dragan Maksimovic, Pavle Vuisic
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia

This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. “Petria’s wreath” is a story about the tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.

Director: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
Stars: Gerry Bamman, Ronee Blakley, Pierre Cottrell
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden | West Germany

Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1982) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray’s original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray’s state of health.

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Director: Slobodan Sijan
Stars: Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo ‘Bata’ Stojkovic
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

It’s April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.

Director: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA

Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Walter Huston, Benjamin Simon
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: USA

A group of mentally traumatized veteran patients is followed as they go through psychiatric treatment.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Stars: Muhammad Ali, Drew Bundini Brown, Angelo Dundee
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Country: USA

An American documentary film about the 1980 heavyweight title fight between the aging Muhammad Ali and his former sparring partner Larry Holmes for an unprecedented fourth title.

Director: Karel Kachyna
Stars: Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Lukás Vaculík
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia

Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague – Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty.

Director: Connie Field
Stars: Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright, Lyn Childs
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA

Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Vladimir Gaitan, Joanna Pacula, Sergiu Nicolaescu
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Romania | West Germany

In 1916 Romanian Army lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu jealously obsesses over his wife Lena’s apparent infidelity and contests against gigolo lawyer Nicolau for Lena’s love.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.

Director: William H. Whyte
Stars: William H. Whyte
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

This highly influential film in architecture and planning circles by William H. Whyte analyzes the success and failures of urban spaces. Observing the natural order of spaces and the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban spaces and ways these spaces can be improved.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Maura, Félix Rotaeta, Alaska
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain

Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.

Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called “Quintet.” For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces … and only the winner survives.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | Spain

As 1973 winds down, Francisco Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. The caudillo is aging, though, and the continuity of the régime is in question. One man has the trust of Franco, enough authority and experience to assume the leadership, and an impeccable track record as to dealing with enemies of the State: admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. For the embattled clandestine Basque organization ETA, Carrero Blanco must be brought down.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Clémentine Amouroux, Catherine Rétoré, Franziskus Abgottspon
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.

Director: Richard Pearce
Stars: Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus
Genre: Western, Drama
Country: USA

A widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll.

Director: Doru Nastase
Stars: Stefan Sileanu, Ernest Maftei, Emanoil Petrut
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Director: Giulio Paradisi
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Altavista, Osvaldo Terranova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina

The story about a family that must maintain a insatiable grandmother.

Director: Haile Gerima
Stars: Barbarao, Johnny Weathers, Susan Williams
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

It details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The government threatens to take away her welfare if she does not get an abortion.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Mozart’s opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna’s father. He is then chased by Donna Anna’s fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.

Director: Stefan Jarl
Stars: Kenneth ‘Kenta’ Gustafsson, Gustav ‘Stoffe’ Svensson, Eva Blondin
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden

About a couple of friends in Stockholms drug world.

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Peter Bull, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK

Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.

Director: Borislav Sharaliev
Stars: Ivan Ivanov, Yanina Kasheva, Valcho Kamarashev
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria

A boy from a poor Sofia neighborhood – Rado who is orphan and has committed several petty crimes – is sent to a borstal, or, to put it otherwise becomes a juvenile prisoner. Unfortunately, however, he cannot reconcile his uncomplicated pride, sense of justice with the kind of education provided by people who are more often than not deprived of sensibility and human warmth. The order there is repulsive, the boy is seeking for freedom and often makes escapes. During one of the escapes he meets the love of his lifetime. Suddenly Rado falls in love with Benny, a student, the daughter of well educated and sophisticated family (at least, this is the first impression) and this intensify his desire for freedom and independence. Naturally, conflict is not slow to appear. The parents of Benny are panic-stricken when getting aware of the fact. They are resolved to separate the couple. Their parental love is sincere but the reality is phony and cruel.

Director: Wojciech Marczewski
Stars: Piotr Lysak, Tomasz Hudziec, Hanna Skarzanka
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The life and times of a sensitive, poetic Polish boy who watches his country strive towards the liberation movement.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Amparo Muñoz, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain | France

Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In their reunion, she finds that Jose died three years ago; Juan left his wife Luchy; Fernando is still living with his mother and unsuccessfully trying to fly a hang glider; and the three little girls are grown-up. Further, she discovers that the dysfunctional family is completely broken, and Luchy in embezzling mother’s money. When Juan arrives for the celebration, he plots with Fernando and Luchy to kill the mother to get the inheritance. Meanwhile, Antonio has a brief affair with Natalia.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Stars: Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Director: Tim Burton, Jerry Rees
Stars: Brad Bird, Chris Buck, Tim Burton
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA

The Doctor of Doom unleashes a monster designed to destroy all things beautiful.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Two strangers help each other survive a night of great loss.

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

An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton in which colors, periods of darkness, and images are used.

Director: Gary Weis
Stars: Louis Gigante
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Depicts the daily life of gangs within the context of the South Bronx. Deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known as the “Savage Skulls” and the “Savage Nomads”.

Director: Paul Vecchiali
Stars: Nicolas Silberg, Béatrice Bruno, Louis Lyonnet
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Pierrot, a mechanic in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Finally she accepts his love when she discovers she is affected by a deadly illness. In the background we see everyday stories of a community of Pierrot’s younger and older friends.

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Ralph Votrian
Genre: Animation, Short
Country: USA

What are the devilish goals of this mad doctor?

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Draga Olteanu Matei, Jean Constantin
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania

A Romanian peasant, visiting a friend who is working at a hotel on the Black Sea Riviera, is mistaken for a look-alike rich American businessman.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, John Friedrich
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

The Wanderers is a teenage, Italian gang in Bronx, NYC, 1963. They have their confrontations with other gangs. Drugs and weapons are uncool. Adult life awaits them.

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

Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria’s relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?

Director: John Mackenzie
Stars: David Hayman, Jake D’Arcy, Sean Scanlan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.

Director: Youssef Chahine
Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Farid Shawqi
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt | Algeria

“Yahia”, a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Between his dreams, which up to Hollywood, and constraints of his life in the middle class, trying to be a new Hamlet with his uprising dreams wondering where all new meaning to life amid the horrors of war and life pain.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Marian Osuch
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Poland

A factory night watchman, who is a fanatic of total control, shares his opinions on various topics.

Director: Milton Katselas
Stars: Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Ford Rainey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A woman who left home 20 years ago under acrimonious circumstances finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz’s secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz’ corporate security force.

Director: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Tom Mannion, Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan

A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid policeman struggle to free a princess from an evil count’s clutches, and learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to.

Director: Robert Enders
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Jan Nowicki, Maja Komorowska, Zofia Kucówna
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

A strange arrogant tourist arrives at the Morskie Oko mountain shelter. Next morning, in spite of danger, he climbs alone and the search for him begins.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: François Marthouret, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France | West Germany

An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name ’51’ to identify a method to control him.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from terrorists, who want to use his mental powers for evil.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Isabel Mestres, Fernando Hilbeck, Agustín Almodóvar
Genre: Short
Country: Spain

An early short film from the director.

Director: Ted Bafaloukos
Stars: Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace, Richard ‘Dirty Harry’ Hall, Monica Craig
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica

Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Jean Constantin
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Romania

After Iron Guard member Paraipan discovers that commissioner Moldovan had staged his own death, he kidnaps Moldovan’s son in order to draw him out. Tensions build up resulting in a final epic confrontation.

Director: Peter Medak
Stars: Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.

Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

When three workers try to steal from the local union, they discover the corruption of the union instead and decide to blackmail them.

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

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage which captures various footage of trees, birds, and the burial of one bird.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Milos Kopecký
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia

When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy – the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp.

Director: Reinhard Hauff
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center – Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Stars: Giovanni Di Benedetto, Umberto Gradi, Elisabetta Virgili
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy

A man is shot dead in his seat during a matinee screening of a Giuliano Gemma Spaghetti Western, prompting the police to close off the cinema in an attempt to gather evidence.

Director: Herz Frank
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Soviet Union

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don’t; we can only guess from their faces.

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Kid Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Blue Lu Barker
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

A look at the spirit of New Orleans.

Director: Jules Dassin
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | Switzerland | USA

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy “Medea” (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, she arranges a meeting with an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is serving a prison term for killing her own children. Features Mercouri performing “Medea” in the original, intercut with Burstyn narrating her crime.

Director: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Stars: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark

Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school.

Director: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson
Stars: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA

NORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks and the railroads, NORTHERN LIGHTS brings back a forgotten era of American history and evokes the austere beauty of the Northern Plains.

Director: Lordan Zafranovic
Stars: Frano Lasic, Milan Strljic, Tanja Poberznik
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Three young men – a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew – are the best friends in pre-WW2 Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Nazis and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.

Director: John Guillermin
Stars: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Director: Jerry Thorpe
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Jane Alexander, Ned Beatty
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A woman fights her ex-husband for custody of her children when he sues for custody after learning that she is living in a relationship with another woman.

Director: Silvio Narizzano
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as To Sir, with Love (1967), comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael (Glenda Jackson), who tries to reach out and give to her pupils, juvenile delinquents, at a London alternative school.

Director: Tage Danielsson
Stars: Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden

Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.

Director: Radley Metzger
Stars: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Country: UK

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

Director: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Stars: Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that’s in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. They try Ingrid, Christa’s friend, who tries to help, but the school rejects the money. When tragedy strikes Werner, Hans helps Christa bolt to a collective in Portugal. Ingrid visits her; their relationship makes the collective nervous, so she returns to Germany and ceases living in hiding. The police are still looking for her and so is a witness to the robbery, Lena, a bank clerk. Lena’s interest brings Christa’s second awakening.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel
Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: West Germany

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.

Director: George Roy Hill
Stars: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA

A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.

Director: Howard Smith
Stars: Milt Moss
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: USA

Compilation of man inventing strange contraptions in the 30’s through 50’s.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy | France

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it’s soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Director: James Benning
Stars: Serafina Bathrick, Ted Brady, Barbara Frankel
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | Canada

One of the most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning’s 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences, each offering some sort of image/sound pun or paradox. At once a crypto-narrative with an abstract, peekaboo storyline and a fractured, painterly study of the American midwestern landscape, 11×14 points toward the creation of a new, non-literary but populist cinema.

Director: Georgiy Daneliya
Stars: Vakhtang Kikabidze, Mher Mkrtchyan, Elena Proklova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | Canada

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK

A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom’s only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Fernando Rey, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabel Mestres
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.

Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

Journey into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.

Director: Richard Benner
Stars: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada

A story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line.

Director: Hector Babenco
Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Ana Maria Magalhães, Milton Gonçalves
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil

History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies.

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

This movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen’s band) radio. Paul LeMat is the local CB coordinator who has time for little else in his life. His father, Roberts Blossom is a sour old man who is nice on the radio. Charles Napier is a trucker hospitalized after an accident, with hilarious consequences.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy

The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.

Director: Moshé Mizrahi
Stars: Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she’s a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He’s a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kurosh Afsharpanah, Mehdi Montazar
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

The life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.

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

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

Director: Charles Eames, Ray Eames
Stars: Philip Morrison
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man’s hand.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Giorgos Danis
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | France | West Germany

On New Year’s Eve, a bourgeoisie group of hunters finds the frozen body of a long dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it, which reveals their sins from the war and leads to their symbolic punishment.

Director: André Cayatte
Stars: Annie Girardot, Hardy Krüger, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France | West Germany

A mother discovers that, after the worst (her daughter is kidnapped, then killed), there can be something even worse.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will let them alone.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: India

Wazed Ali Shah was the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, had sent General Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. While pressure was mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, Ali Shah composes poems and listens to music, secluded in his palace. The court was of no help, as exemplified by nobles Mir and Mirza, who, ignoring the situation of their country and all of their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless parties of chess.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany | USA

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

Director: Basilio Martín Patino
Stars: Claudio Rodríguez, Vicente Copete, Antonio López
Genre: Documentary
Country: Spain

Exploration of a particularly dark zone of the Francoism along with three executioners of death sentences still active in the Spain of the early seventies. Beyond the allegation against capital punishment, the documentary explores the personal story of the three men and their ways of understanding the trade they perform, those executed by them in the garotte or the crimes that are punished. An implacable reflection on power and an atrocious portrait of the society in which those hangmen operate.

Director: Janusz Majewski
Stars: Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland

One of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Housekeeper Rita Gorgon, who has an affair with her employer, is accused of murdering his teenage daughter.

Director: Jean Beaudin
Stars: Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Marthe Thierry
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.

Director: Tengiz Abuladze
Stars: Lika Kavzharadze, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams…

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France

Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek help. She goes to a creepy manor and is welcomed by the owner, Henri Vergennes, and his butler, Colas. Alice is invited to spend the night in the house. The next morning, Alice can’t find the two men from he previous night but finds her car surprisingly fixed. She tries to leave but cannot find the gate. She stops the car and walks around the wall trying to find an exit but becomes increasingly worried with what she finds.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA

A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.

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

An experimental film by Stan Brakhage which combines various footage of animals including dogs, raccoons, snakes, and mice.

Director: Silvio Narizzano
Stars: Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada

In the 1930’s, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he’s distant, superior, lonely, and bewildered; his students are rebellious. Over the course of the year, he is drawn to Alice Field, the wife of a farmer, in a love that can lead nowhere. But, he and his students connect, a connection that matters and lasts.

Director: Atif Yilmaz
Stars: Türkan Soray, Kadir Inanir, Ahmet Mekin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Soviet Union

Story of a dilemma between a woman’s love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the hardships and have a quick happy marriage. However, after he helps a man one night, Ilyas’ life changes forever and he leaves Asya and Samet, their son and doesn’t come back. After that, Asya takes their son and go away without knowing where she is heading, until a familiar hand reaches her to help selflessly.

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

A short film by Hollis Frampton centering around a bride and groom in a garden setting.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother’s death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.

Director: Richard Lester
Stars: Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

On his deathbed, Carmine Vespucci’s mobster father tells him to “get Proclo” – Carmine’s brother-in-law Gaetano. With “the hit” on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can’t find him. He arrives at The Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued amorously by “chubby chaser” Claude and by entertainer Googie Gomez, who believes him to be a Broadway producer. His guides and protectors through The Ritz are gatekeeper Abe, habitue Chris, and bellhop/go-go boys Tiger and Duff. Squeaky-voiced detective Michael Brick and his employer Carmine do locate Gaetano at the Ritz, as does his wife Vivian, but family secrets come out.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings.

Director: Zoltán Fábri
Stars: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary

In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner,when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Director: Jorge Fons
Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Jaime Fernández, José Alonso
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico

A watchman is murdered in a building site. The movie narrates the several versions of implicates. Based in the Vicente Leñero’s novel.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party activist there, and he has unpleasant memories of it. But he sets to the task in the belief that he will build a place where people will live and work well. His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs. Disillusioned, Bednarz gives up his post.

Director: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait | Morocco | UK | Saudi Arabia | Egypt

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.

Director: Jonas Mekas
Stars: Peter Beard, Ed Emshwiller, Ken Jacobs
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Artist-writer-poet-filmmaker Jonas Mekas documents his early years building a life and discovering an arts community in New York.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany

Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and relying on the life savings of a woman from the country who is fanatically devoted to him. He also has to contend with his long-suffering wife, his fly-obsessed crazy brother, his other mistress and a police murder investigation.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh, John Lehne
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn’t know that, and she doesn’t know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and sad love story!

Director: Les Blank
Stars: Ramiro Cavazos, Los Alegres De Teran, Los Pinguinos del Norte
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

“Chulas Fronteras” is a documentary about the music of the Mexican community on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, particularly of migrant farmers. It includes material about the roots of the music, but devotes principal attention to the music as a form of social protest against oppression and racism.

Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short
Country: Soviet Union

A vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Italy | France

A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Rüdiger Kirschstein
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | West Germany

A countess’ unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hashem Arkan, Mohammad Fassih, Reza Hashemi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s wedding. The tailor’s apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.

Director: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia

Fred Schepisi’s film, ‘The Devil’s Playground’ is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Ernest Maftei, Gheorghe Dinica
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: French | English

During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.

Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Faye Dunaway, Bette Davis, James Sloyan
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.

Director: Joy N. Houck Jr.
Stars: Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.

Director: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

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

An experimental short film from the Gates of Death series made by Hollis Frampton.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Steve Liptay, Scott McKain
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: West Germany

Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: France

Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the “Dziga Vertov Group”) examine the parallel lives of two families – one French, one Palestinian – using an exploratory combination of film and video.

Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Stars: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of ‘Richard III’ and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Mossad agents kidnap an American Jewish man, accuse him of being a fugitive Nazi war criminal and take him to Jerusalem to face trial for genocide.

Director: Dick Richards
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub.

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Juan José Camero, Marina Magali, Alfredo Alcón
Genre: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Country: Argentina

Nazareno Cruz is the seventh son of a couple living in a high mountain village. According to a myth, a seventh son will become a wolf on nights of the full moon. Everyone in the village is relieved when this doesn’t happen. The boy grows up and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Griselda. When he’s 20 years old, he is visited by the Devil, who offers him the wealth of the world if he will turn his back on his love for Griselda, and if he fails to do this, he will become a wolf.

Director: Joseph Pevney
Stars: Brooke Adams, Donna Mills, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being bisected with surgical precision. The detective interviews people who knew Short, who was called “The Black Dahlia” because of the black outfits she wore.

Director: Harry Winer
Stars: Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx, Yukon Frida
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary about the legendary creature, Bigfoot, with emphasis on him being the missing link.

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Stars: Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.

Director: Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt
Stars: James Whitmore
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Juliusz Machulski, Irena Lorentowicz, Wlodzimierz Borunski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist, named Siedlecki, who does not like the final result and takes his problems on Sowa and Romek who defends him.

Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: France | Italy

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Caroline Baudry, Catherine, Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda’s camera.

Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández
Genre: Documentary
Country: Venezuela | France | Cuba

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.

Director: Jacques Deray
Stars: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective Borniche by repeatedly killing his informants. When he’s finally caught with help from the little criminal Paul, Buisson will have committed more than 100 robberies and killed 30 people.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France | West Germany

To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family’s unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.

Director: John Douglas, Robert Kramer
Stars: Mary Chapelle, Sharon Krebs, Jim Nolfi
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA

“A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape, to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left who faced both personal and hhistorical transitions in the period following the Vietnam War.”

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal

Raised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.

Director: Sam O’Steen
Stars: Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A lonely widow and a postman find romance late in life at the local dance hall.

Director: Michael Ritchie
Stars: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob’s son is up to some mischief. Could this year’s pageant be in jeopardy?

Director: Jean Cocteau
Stars: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Francine Weisweiller
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Short about Mrs. Weisweiller’s Villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferat, on Côte d’Azur, which was decorated by Jean Cocteau.

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

WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

Director: Yves Boisset
Stars: Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise
Genre: Drama
Country: France

As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou’s campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest… A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman’s racism.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.

Director: James F. Collier
Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O’Connell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.

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

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Maja Komorowska, Piotr Fronczewski, Marek Piwowski
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won’t be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It’s only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start.

Director: Mauro Bolognini
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Marthe Keller
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | France

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies’man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager’s wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor’s wife.

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: James Whitmore, Sam Elliott, Ned Romero
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA

In a period when many thought that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce won the admiration of the American public.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany

A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.

Director: Bob Godfrey
Stars: Richard Briers, Harry Fowler, Barbara Moore
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short
Country: UK

An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century – including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world’s largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.

Director: José Quintero, Gordon Rigsby
Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Ed Flanders
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan’s landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother.

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles’s radio play “The War of the Worlds” accidentally provokes mass panic.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Ned Beatty, John Beck, Billy Green Bush
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

Director: Herbert Wise
Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK | USA

The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.

Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Christophe Soto, Olivier Bousquet, Roselyne Vuillaume
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Baker’s apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

Director: Alain Tanner
Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul’s party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Jô Shishido
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Director: Franco Brusati
Stars: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

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

After the doctor’s refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them.

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy

A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

Director: John Berry
Stars: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Luigi Vannucchi, Dominique Darel, Rita Calderoni
Genre: Biography
Country: Italy

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Stars: Ugo Cardea, Anne Pouchie, Claude Berthy
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy | France

This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650)

Director: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Director: Jamie Uys
Stars: Paddy O’Byrne
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Country: South Africa

Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.

Director: Bob Clark
Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Romania

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named “Viraga”), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga (in the movie: Costin Märgeanu and Nicolae Jugu). To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu (Visan Nävodeanu) conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the “Morals Division” (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case.

Director: Masud Kimiai
Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Faramarz Gharibian, Nosrat Partovi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Wounded by the police, a thief looks up his old friend in order to leave the proceeds of his theft with him. Instead, he finds that his friend is a drug addict. He sticks around to try and help his friend kick the habit; instead, both men are caught in a shootout with the police and…

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Director: Boris Sagal
Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, William Daniels, Cliff Potts
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system when she reported it, and the afttermath of the culprit’s apprehension.

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

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

Director: Tony Palmer
Stars: Leonard Cohen, Donna Washburn, Ron Cornelius
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: UK

The gravel-voiced songsmith moodily strolls through the byways of various European venues and is seen in concert performing.

Director: Sergio Renán
Stars: Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hassan Darabi, Pare Gol Atashjameh, Masud Zandbegleh
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.

Director: John Waters
Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Yves Montand, Bob Castella, Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Yves Montand’s rehearsals for a special show at Olympia to support Chile’s political refugees. Interviews of this singer and actor, fragments of his films and footage from his concerts created a multifaceted portrait of an artist.

Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Stars: Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Vangelis Kazan, Elena Kyrana
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece

During the shooting of a film, a strange man enters the set holding an umbrella. He walks into the sea and disappears. The people from the film crew claim that this is a publicity stunt, but the musician for the film, who tries to investigate the incident, ponders the significance of this action, and when he tries to do the same thing, he disappears as well.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Ludek Sobota, Marta Vancurová, Vera Ferbasová
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka (Ludek Sobota) leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan | USA

American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend’s kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.

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

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Vibrant scenes of individuals’ daily life are filmed in Place de la République.

Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Santanu Bagchi, Ajoy Banerjee
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: India

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France | Italy

A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas’ life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy’s frustrated and bored wife.

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A successful public relations man’s refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.

Director: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society’s frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.

Director: Alison De Vere
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Animation
Country: USA

An animated short film in which a man and a woman have a conversation in a cafe.

Director: Stan Brakhage
Stars: Bearthm Brakhage, Crystal Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Genre: Short
Country: USA

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens and the family, while the narrator explains the heavens. We see a bee up close. The narrator suggests metaphors for heavenly bodies. Scenes fade into a black screen or dim purple; close-ups of family life may be blurry. The words about the heavens, such as “The stars are a flock of hummingbirds,” contrast with images and sounds of real children.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Jean Seberg, Nico, Tina Aumont
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche’s The Antichrist.

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: Mari Töröcsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra’s mother to kill him.

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France | Sweden

Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.

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

A series of experimental short films from the Pan series made by Hollis Frampton.

Director: John Badham
Stars: Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA

The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films a couple and their dog as they walk farther away into the woods.

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Stars: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Ilarion Ciobanu
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: Romania

It’s the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called “romanian dream.”

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: Poland | Soviet Union

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

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

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

Director: Aleksandar Djordjevic
Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav ‘Voja’ Brajovic, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic
Genre: Action, War
Country: Yugoslavia

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo’s termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.

Director: Héctor Olivera
Stars: Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Argentina

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Director: Harold Pinter
Stars: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Canada | USA

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA | Canada

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Lea Lander, George Eastman, Riccardo Cucciolla
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada

In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.

Director: Daryl Duke
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Young Priest Mark Brian is sent as a vicar to a native American village in British Columbia. There, he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France | Italy

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff.

Director: Delbert Mann
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Peter Strauss
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

During the 1800s, an American officer who renounces his country during his court-martial is sentenced to sail the seas on American warships without ever setting foot on American soil again or getting news of America.

Director: Dino Risi
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy | France

In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.

Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Canada | USA

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter’s godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: Anne Baxter, John Forsythe, Kay Lenz
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Three teenage girls try to help their friend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Stars: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

A young American boy unable to overcome a speech defect is disturbed by the constant bickering of his parents, and when they get divorced, he slides into an emotional breakdown.

Director: John Flynn
Stars: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

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

An unobtrusive and naturalistic examination of the goings-on of a children’s court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.

Director: Anthony Page
Stars: Hal Holbrook, Ronny Cox, Andrew Duggan
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A Cold War incident, told in flashbacks, regarding the capture of the American spy ship, U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew by North Korean naval units off the North Korean coast on January 23, 1968.

Director: Arnaldo Jabor
Stars: Paulo Porto, Darlene Glória, Elza Gomes
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Rich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can’t decide between attraction, and repulsion.

Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Cristina Raines, Cliff De Young, Meg Foster
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her daughter discover she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left.

Director: Tonino Valerii
Stars: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A young, easygoing gunman worships and competes with an old gunfighter who only wants to retire.

Director: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Robert Culp, Marlyn Mason, Beah Richards
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.

Director: Joe Boyd, John Head, Gary Weis
Stars: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: USA

This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix’s untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but some of the information in it needs revising in the light of new information uncovered over the years. The film contains concert footage spanning the Marquee in 1967 to his last UK performance at the third Isle of Wight festival in 1970; along the way we see classic performances at Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969), Fillmore East (1969/70), and Berkeley (1970).

Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France | Italy

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for heresy.

Director: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France | Italy

A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.

Director: Matjaz Klopcic
Stars: Milena Zupancic, Polde Bibic, Bert Sotlar
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

Doctor Janez, a somewhat elderly lawyer, tired of urban life, pays a few week’s visit to his relative Presecnik, a well-off farmer living in highland village. Farm life holds a great attraction for him, particularly because a deep and secret love develops between himself and Presecnik’s daughter Meta. After a few serene and cheerful days spent on the farm, filled with pleasant labor and walks together with Meta in the unspoilt surroundings, he has to return to Ljubljana to resume his office work.

Director: Gilles Carle
Stars: Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.

Director: Antonio Calenda
Stars: Oliver Reed, John McEnery, Carole André
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy | UK

Based on Lermontov’s novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.

Director: Pál Zolnay
Stars: István Iglódi, Ferenc Sebö, Márk Zala
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary

A photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Stars: David Hartman, Jane Wyatt, Ralph Meeker
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.

Director: Peter Hall
Stars: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Paul Rogers
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | USA

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.

Director: Gordon Hessler
Stars: Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend’s abusive employer.

Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Marek Walczewski, Izabella Olszewska, Ewa Zietek
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland’s 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland

Tabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.

Director: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin
Stars: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

This lively documentary celebrates 1950s rock ‘n’ roll, both through archival clips of the era and concert footage filmed during the ’70s. Although the musicians have aged, the performances are remarkably vibrant, with many acts in fine form. Among the many artists featured are Bill Haley and the Comets, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. In one of the film’s highlights, Diddley and Berry take the stage together to the applause of a rapt audience.

Director: Édouard Molinaro
Stars: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier
Genre: Comedy
Country: France | Italy

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Director: Malo Aguettant, Maurice Born, Jean-Daniel Pollet,
Stars: Raimondakis, Philippe Sollers
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Hossein Yarmohammadi, Andre Govalovish, Parviz Naderi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

The daily hard life of a kid working in a photo shop, and tries to get closer to the girl he like.

Director: Sergio Sollima
Stars: Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi, Paola Pitagora
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy | France | West Germany