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- Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.
- A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.
- An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- A comprehensive animated survey of the evolution of humanity and the history of predominately Western Civilization.
- The adventures of the iconic gentleman-burglar, loosely adapted from Maurice Leblanc's pages.
- Retired opera singers reenact past roles at a Milan nursing home. Daniel Schmid's "Tosca's Kiss" captures their poignant performances, exploring how music's inspirational power intersects with aging.
- The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table.
- A twelve-year-old boy from an abusive, dysfunctional family meets a kindred spirit during a summer holiday by the sea.
- Master criminal Fantomas kills an ambassador, is having an affair with the dead man's wife, sneaks into a rich woman's house handing out vanishing-ink business cards, is caught and sentenced to death but switches with an actor, who goes to the guillotine.
- 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.
- During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
- Skrotnisse and his son Kalle work in a junk yard, situated in the middle of a small town. Skrotnisse has a childhood friend, the inventor and hermit Bertil Enstöring. He has written down all his fabulous inventions in a small book. A lot of people would like to get their hands on this book. One of them is engineer Björkman, who also wants to get rid of the junk yard from the town.
- Democracy in China exists, that is, in a primary school in Wuhan where a grade 3 class can vote who they want as class monitor.
- 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.
- William, a knight-in-training, is dedicated to his mentor Sir Roderick in Camelot. When Princess Gwendolyn is reduced to the size of a doll by a sinister duke, the two try to undo the curse.
- The portrait of an old man who decides to abandon his comfortable bourgeois way of life and live with a Bohemian couple. There he rediscovers his freedom to think and his joie de vivre.
- King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.
- A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.
- Entertainment show filmed in a circus big top at a different seaside resort each week.
- A group of young New Zealand school boys find themselves adrift at sea in the South Pacific, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where, threatened by pirates, they must learn to get along together to survive.
- Fictional story that's based upon historical events during the War of the Mantuan Succession.
- Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on stage but also behind the scenes.
- A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
- La Nouvelle-France, de 1682 à 1704, est un territoire convoité, politiquement instable. Pierre Lemoyne d'Iberville combat férocement, sur terre et sur mer, les Anglais de Boston et les Hollandais de Manhattan et d'Albany. Il mène des expéditions pour lutter contre la prédominance de la Compagnie du Nord à la baie d'Hudson. Les alliances avec les Indiens sont souvent fragiles tandis qu'il doit conquérir avec quelques centaines d'hommes un pays vaste comme un continent.
- Frankreich während des ersten Weltkrieges: Im Militärhospital Besancon hält sich Krankenschwester Véronique d'Hergemont (Claude Jade) seit 14 Jahren vor ihrem verhaßten Ehemann Vorski versteckt. Die Nachricht von seinem Tod und das Auftauchen ihrer Initialen in einem Stummfilm führen Véronique auf eine geheimnisvolle Insel, die von Geistern und Druiden beherrscht scheint. Grausame Prophezeiungen von einem Massaker an dreißig Menschen erfüllen sich und Véronique stellt sich einem scheinbar aussichtslosen Kampf... Das phantastische Abenteuer, das erst 1996 seine deutsche Erstausstrahlung hatte, basiert auf dem Roman "Die Insel der dreißig Särge" von Maurice Leblanc. Deutscher Titel: "DIE INSEL DER DREISSIG TODE".
- The daily lives of the rich and powerful Berg family who lived at La Commanderie on the banks of the Loire at Châteauvallon.
- A 31 year-old designer moves to Paris in search of steady work but finds only dead ends, harassment and broken promises.
- At death's door, George Frederic Handel reflects, rages, and narrates his life. From his womanizing youthful days, to his rise in fame as a composer, God Rot Tunbridge Wells! pulls no punches in this wild romp of a biopic.
- Using a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently in an effort to heal his current misfortune.
- Four kittens and four puppies go to school. they own a pigeon. there will be an argument about whether cats are the best or whether dogs are the best. Cats go to the museum and dogs go to the bookstore to learn their story.
- The internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead violinist suddenly died, leaving the remaining three confused about their lives and careers.
- One summer afternoon in 1907, Abelard "Abel" Hassan de Chirico Flint (Tim Curry) and his wife (both mice) are picnicking, when they become separated during a violent rainstorm. After flying some distance, Abel discovers himself alone on a river island, unable to swim due to the powerful current. Abel periodically attempts to leave the island by various means: flying on a leaf, rowing a crudely fashioned boat, et cetera. Meanwhile, he tries to create a normal life of sorts, even learning to enjoy a new hobby: sculpture. Still, Abel's goal is to escape the island and rejoin his wife in the city.
- Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence.
- You know to the man with the longest hiccup of the world?
- Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted by Massimo himself. But the actor's father informs the director of his son's strange decision to renounce conventional language in everyday life, and offers a possible explanation: a disillusionment in love. The mother agrees to compose the script, perhaps to bring her son back to an equality characterised by a verbal language that is understandable to all.
- When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.
- A study of the friendship between two contemporary Italian women. One is a pharmacist from the affluent North East, while the other is an impoverished shop assistant living in the South East.
- Pipe, farmhand for 30 years, buys a moped with his old-age insurance allowances. Despite a difficult start, Pipe sets out to discover a reality he did not know.
- The head of the family is a beautiful and independent woman who lives with her mother Isa, grand-mother Liane, aunt Teresa. The tribe spends holidays in the countryside. Everyone carries his issues, despite the pleasure to be together.
- Follows the peregrinations of a modern day adventurer, Raner, a former gangster presumed dead, who hides himself under the identity of Mr. Duvallier, a wealthy patrician determined to improve the lot of humanity.
- A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Prof Amedeo is irritated by a dream full of naked women including his mother, wife and daughter. Awake, he is enervated by his elderly mother, and he becomes really uneasy when his daughter Gloria openly asks him to teach her how to kiss.
- A biographical film, in English throughout, telling the story of film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) from his childhood in Riga, Latvia to receiving the 'Stalin Prize' in Moscow. Based on his own writings, the film uses actual film clips of Eisenstein at various points of his life as well as photographs, illustrations and archival film of a variety of locations around the world. Eisenstein's talent as a satirical cartoonist and later an artist is particularly highlighted with many photographs of his work. Films discussed include "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin", "Oktober", "The old and the new", "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the terrible". There is a detailed account of Eisenstein's world tour during which time he met and worked with other leading film-makers, writers and personalities including Einstein, James Joyce, D. W. Griffith and Walt Disney. Includes anecdote on his visit to High Table at Trinity College, Cambridge and its inspiration for a scene in 'Ivan the terrible'.