The cruel landlord is forcing the people to give him every girl of the village who wants to get marry. But a guy Dada is resisting. He gives the landlord a piece of land so he not to …
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Spinnefix
“Je oller, je doller”, say the roommates of pensioner Otto Panke, because they often see him together with the young Manuela, who likes to invent “dream jobs” for her life and dreams of an “exclusive life”. But for Otto, the noticeable sympathy for the pretty, quite professional woman is simply “soul kinship”. And since both have an extremely large degree of imagination, they are special, extraordinary – to a certain extent “spider fix”! The problem of the two is that they often get into tricky situations that threaten to get messy and they get a lot of problems. But as is the case with good stories: in the end, everything aims at a happy happy end…
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A Personal History of the Australian Surf
An autobiographical documentary written and directed by Michael Blakemore in 1981 in which he plays his own father. The film was made on 16mm and first screened in the UK at London’s National Film Theatre.
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The House of Spider
Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a villa located in the north of Iran. They are all involved in Operation Eagle Claw waiting to see its success. When the operations fails, their relations change. The one who is a symbol of a system viewpoint based on the domination of world powers, kills all his friends, and at last he encounters the youngest member of the group who has found out about his true nature and is killed by him; but before he dies, he kills this young man too.
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Two Under One Umbrella
Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about his talent, makes Dan think about a creation of anew circus show.
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I Lived, But…
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu’s long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu’s accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
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Papadistik Company
Kavouras is the owner of the popular nightclub “Xerokomata,” which has begun to lose its patrons. When he learns from a friend that the monks Malachias, Charon, and Billias are passionate about music and singing, he convinces them to leave the Medouli monastery, where they lived a virtuous and solitary life, and take to the stage. Their success is so great that it threatens to sweep everything away in its path…
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.
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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Life’s questions are ‘answered’ in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there’s the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world’s most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.