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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A look back from the vantage point of the 1950s Thaw era in the USSR at the World War II defense of Brest, in a way that sought to humanize the conflict, this new kind of Soviet war film preceded the similar but more well known The Cranes are Flying.
- 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.
- The director, a married woman without children, deals with the issue of infertility in the country of Niger, by sharing stories of stigmatized wives, husbands who refuse to be tested (or who abandon the women and take up with other wives.) The project was inspired by the death of the director's own mother in childbirth.
- 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 documentary follows futuristic artist Hiroyuki-Mitsume Takahashi as he brings his work from Tokyo to the J-Pop summit in San Francisco, assisted by an American otaku writer, an anime executive, and a talent manager.Will his special achievement resonate with a different audience or will it be lost in translation?
- This period film told in flashback and set between the 1920s and 195os, tells the story of one of the South Indian girls called "devadasi," who are set aside to dance and serve in the temples.Madhura the main character is exploited by her landlord Mirasu specifically and by the system in general.
- Del Shores one man play, in which he imitates five females and one male, characters he has created based on people in his life, all Southern caricatures but more complicated than they may at first seem (E.g. a redneck homophobe who is turned on by watching Channing Tatum)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The first Argentine journalist given permission by England's queen to report on the contested, remote South Atlantic outpost of the Falklands, Gleyzer tours snow covered landscapes and outdoor activities as well as taking viewers into homes , businesses and institutions.
- Three immigrants from different Latin American countries, all of whom use corn as an ingredient in their rich cuisines, have landed up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where they share their mouth-watering recipes and join together for a colorful feast.
- Jochen's grandmother spends time searching for an apartment they can afford with her new boyfriend Gregor, an elderly gentleman she has picked up in a park.When they run across a library space being abandoned by the town authorities, Oma comes up with the idea of taking it over as a kindergarten for the neighborhood kids who have no place to play except the street, and they become do it yourself squatters.
- Interlocking narratives, told out of chronological order, about partisans in the Second World War who are a band of nihilistic marauders, roaming the countryside and dispensing what they see as justice to those they consider collaborators with the enemy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A native of Czechoslovakia recalls her journey from the Terezin internment camp there to Auschwitz in Poland, when she was eight months pregnant.
- This short sponsored by the Monnet Plan documents the extrication of salt from the Camargue area of southern France, as a group of workers build dikes, canals, and pumping stations, putting modern machinery to use so that the land can be cultivated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
- 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.
- This French made documentary surveys the situation in mid to late 1930s Spain: the revelations of a plot by Italy and Germany to subvert the new Republican government ;the progress made by the Popular Front since 1936 in fighting off the Franco rebels who are largely foreign Moorish troops, mercenaries, and Spaniards forced to join ;but the need for international aid because the governments of England and France have decided to look the other way and not intervene.
- 1964–19721h 15m8.0 (9)TV EpisodeJohn Ford is interviewed,sitting on a bed in his Hollywood home, with a cigar and a drink,by two journalists,and deflects a number of the questions about his life and films with a cranky humor,even occasionally trying to converse with the French interviewer in French.
- We are introduced to a middle class family, where one son, Jochen, works in a tool factory and shares close comradeship with his colleagues.When he accidentally meets a young lady, Marion,who has an office advertising job, while going out to get alcohol for a family gathering, a love affair between them develops.
- 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.
- With the news the tool factory is relocating to a more remote part of town, Jochen and Marion ask if they can switch apartments with Kathe and Wolf, to be closer to their respective jobs.And with this new inconvenience, the workers at the factory decide to come up with a list of demands, including the impractical-sounding proposal that they arrange their own schedule rather than have it dictated to them by the bosses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prodded by a visit from Marion's strict mother, Jochen plans to marry Marion.Whereas tensions growing between Monika and the overly bossy Harald lead Monika to consider divorce.Many of the characters we have come to know over the previous three episodes meet up, and pair off in interesting combinations, at a drunken party.
- The heroic 19th century figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his role in the Risorgimento to unify Italy into one nation state are used to celebrate the bravery and grandiosity of Italy's new leader at the time the film was made, Benito Mussolini.