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- A lady investigator from San Francisco,invited with her wisecracking friend to a society event on a Western ranch in the country,gets involved trying to get information on the husband of her hostess.He is having an affair with another woman and eventually someone gets killed,leading to a murder that needs to be solved.
- In a work of site-specific expanded Cinema, going beyond his earlier narrative features,the director presents a middle and upper class audience gathered in a museum setting with images of real homeless people from their wealthy city of Vienna, who are shown consuming food and participating in various vignettes.
- Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the Stagecoach.
- Infamously macho author Norman Mailer shares a 1971 NYC panel with an audience of intellectual women and famous feminists receiving a lively critique revealing the sophisticated political, literary discourse of early Women's Lib movement.
- Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
- The film, set between 1920s and 195os, tells the story of Madhura, a South Indian girl exploitation by her landlord Mirasu and the system.
- A psychological melodrama about a lonely country woman who embarks on a marriage with a city chauffeur which is doomed to fail, this vehicle for an actress who would commit suicide later the year of the film,s release serves as her testament.
- The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War between Reds and Whites. The main character.an antihero,is the violent, impetuous, unreliable Melekhov.
- After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the perpetrators and turns to a butcher.
- The complicated personality of America's seventh president is explored in detail in this two hour PBS documentary, leaving the viewer to decide whether the man should be celebrated for his achievements or condemned for his ignorance and savagery.
- During the early years of the collective farms in the USSR, when some farmers have problems joining the effort, one man Fedor hires a woman Stepanida, who knows what path she wants to take and who helps him to realize in what direction both of their futures lie.
- In the second of Columbia's Nero Wolfe movies, the housebound detective is confronted with several deaths and a disappearance among a group of 10 Harvard alumni who had years earlier hazed another student, resulting in his becoming crippled.
- A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.
- A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist tries to help, doesn,t know the sordid business her father is involved with.
- A print shop worker, Tufan, takes in a neighbor with emphysema and helps his daughter take care of a wounded bird, but tensions develop at his economically struggling business and strains develop because of his house guest with his marriage.
- John, looking for the mother in Cuba he hasn't seen in thirty years, is surprised to discover just her corpse minus her head, and further to find that the rest of his family there, who are stranger than he thought, are not all that helpful in his quest.
- A large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
- Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local director Pennebaker, until three years later.
- This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
- Inspired by the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, this novelistic feature examines the questions of a society after a revolution has happened, such as guilt and atonement and the anxiety that former conditions might come back again.
- A princess visiting in the hotel where a famous singer is staying,helps him out on the piano when he has dismissed his accompanist. he uses her again later,but when her betrothed,a prince,suspects her of being in the singer,s bedroom she runs away to another city to work incognito.But the singer turns up there as well and reconciles the lovers.
- The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.
- Nick,a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife ,marries his new secretary Marie,but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife.When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris,he begins to fall in love with Marie.
- A young soldier, who has spent the last three nights before he leaves for the front with his lover, discovers when he deserts to be with her once more that she has betrayed him, and decides to report to the police who are questioning him, that she is a Communist.
- Hotspur is dead and Henry's son Prince Hal has proved his military worth, but the King himself is increasingly sick and a remaining band of rebels is reluctant to surrender.As the Prince's drinking buddy Falstaff is coaxed into mustering soldiers to help fight the rebels, the question builds as to whether his attachment to Hal will help him and his cronies earn promotion and comfort in the new court of the expected Henry V.
- Petrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
- A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.
- Health care during the Spanish Civil War is portrayed in this French made documentary: the progress under the new Republican government in setting up child care centers, the extent to which hospital care is provided at the battlefront or via trains to nearby facilities, the provision of convalescence care for wounded soldiers so that they can promptly return as needed to combat. The film concludes as a plea for help, with the Republicans still struggling.
- Of all the great directors, Rossellini was arguably the most eloquent and articulate in talking about his life work and how it related to the larger aspirations of humanity in general.In this documentary, scholar Adriano Apra combines footage taken from different sources of Rossellini being interviewed, with clips, posters, photos, and behind the scenes making of material to create a full and moving portrait.
- A beggar with his paper boxes outspread, watches the same scene repeated over and over: a bookseller with his books laid out on an outdoor table, a female dropping her papers as she walks across a bridge, a man leaving a coin or two in a basin, a garbage man coming by with his equipment.
- As part of the Zanzibar group of independent French filmmakers starting in 1968, movies mostly in black and white and often silent, this is a woman's experimental assemblage of sequence shots and repeated actions, provocative, and daringly feminist for its time.
- A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
- A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded the American invention of Cinerama, and used three screens to present a drama of simultaneous images.
- A satire on the romantic adventures of a youth who follows in the footsteps of his Don Juan like father.The student is sent away from Cologne where his family lives to a smaller town for falling in love with an actress,and is later expelled from school and lands up in the army just as they are preparing for a dangerous war.
- An expanded version of the short, New York Story, in which we first see the arrival of the Loulou character in the big city, sharing a Soho apartment with three roommates, getting work as a film editor, and showing her previous movie Deux Fois at the Museum of Modern Art.
- In the village of Tankuy, farmers are roused to revolutionary action against US based imperialism after one of them, an indigenous man, is brutalized by a landowner.Native non professionals contributed to and helped direct this example of radical, Collective oriented Latin American filmmaking.
- People who have seen enough British films likely recall a shirtless hunk beating a huge gong during the opening credits, but many may not know that this was the symbol of Rank Studios, the history of which is told in this TV documentary through numerous clips, interviews and commentary by Michael Caine.
- How to represent the architect, his work, his projects? This classic documentary film explores many avenues in this regard. Pierre Kast defends and illustrates the theories and achievements of Le Corbusier, with the assistance of the architect himself.
- Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the memory of a murdered wife.A wedding in the mountains is disrupted when the bride sees an apparation of the Devil who shares his expertise in astrology and the female heart.
- This film by a collective of directors, made during a period of increased repression and censorship in Argentina, focuses on a group of tourists who encounter different kinds of Latin American music on their visit to Buenos Aires, such as the tango and folklore.
- Just before one of the locations for the 1960 film Breathless is about to be demolished 33 years later, journalist Claude Ventura seeks out as many of the surviving participants in the shooting as he can, researches what happened back then, and even travels to Godard's native Switzerland to uncover some more links.
- An anthology of short stories featuring the resourcefulness of ordinary Soviet citizens in fighting back against Nazi cruelty during the invasion of 1941 on, features an episode of a peasant woman who poisons food she cooks for the occupiers.
- Healing at her parents' home after a radical hysterectomy from a cervical cancer related to a drug DES she was exposed to when her mother was given it to prevent a miscarriage, Helfand uses her camera as a diary to document complex issues of science,and corporate greed,and in the process awakens as a political activist.
- One of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau, and intended to show foreign viewers something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the important institution in Washington D.C. which preserves written and other works that have been copyrighted, as part of the country's heritage.
- An adaptation of a famous Argentinian novel (the author plays a supporting role as a schoolteacher ) which has been compared to William Faulkner for its realism in depicting the poverty of a desolate part of the country (the province of Entre Rios) and for its strong denunciation of social injustice and violence.
- The first in a series of popular comedies featuring the character of Bouboule, a man of few means who somehow manages to sneak into various athletic events (such as here boxing, cycling, and rugby) without paying the entrance fee, and who thoroughly enjoys himself doing so.
- Friends are divided by loyalties during the Civil War in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution: a young artist returns from Germany to help the Reds but is sympathetic to one acquaintance helping the Whites and is threatened by another friend for permitting treachery.
- Farmers in a collective of ancient villages near Tokyo fight back one summer ,with the help of student activists, against plans by the Japanese government to demolish their homes to make way for the expansion of an airport used by American planes headed for Viet Nam.
- One of 26 documentary shorts produced by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau between 1942 and 1945,and intended to show foreigners something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the Tennessee Valley and the role played by the federal government under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in its development and progress.
- A French writer travels to the States, confers with writer friends in New York and visits sites there associated with the novel The Catcher In the Rye, before tackling the task of driving up to New England to try to meet the reclusive author of that book.