The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.

French Artist Sophie Calle and American Photographer Greg Shephard's autobiographical account of their road trip across America. Both hide behind their cameras as they make the mythical journey westward from New York to California in Greg's troubling convertible. The couple stop in a Las Vegas Drive-Thru wedding chapel and decide to get married, in order to save their shaky relationship, with their cameras recording everything.

Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.

Klouk drives a station wagon with his friends.

Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happening triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.

A north-African worker is injured on his way to the factory, when he is knocked over by three young middle class men who followed him around in a car.

Document sur l’état de la pratique de l’avortement en France dans les années 1970. Réalisé en 1973, alors que l’avortement n’est ni autorisé ni légal en France, le film donne le ton dès la première image du générique avec son titre « Y’a qu’à pas baiser ». Débute le journal télévisé INF2 qui consacre un dossier à l’avortement intitulé « L’avortement libre : pour ou contre ? », dossier dont le premier intervenant est le professeur Jérôme Lejeune qui stigmatise le marché commun de l’avortement et les avorteurs en blanc.

Attention : une scène du film représentant un avortement clandestin pourrait heurter la sensibilité des plus jeunes.

En juin 1975, les prostituées lyonnaises occupent l’église de Saint-Nizier. Elles parlent de leur histoire personnelle, de leurs rapports avec la société, de leurs conditions de travail et de leurs revendications.

Des femmes de toute la France se retrouvent à Hendaye pour montrer leur solidarité aux femmes espagnoles contre le fascisme. Cette manifestation ne doit pas être silencieuse, on entend beaucoup de chants.
Après la manifestation, les femmes discutent entre elles : qu'est ce qu'une manifestation de femmes/féministe ? Quels slogans doit-on entendre ?
À la fin du film, des femmes témoignent sur la condition féminine en Espagne et dans les luttes politiques.

Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud, then Secretary of State for Women, on his popular TV show. A collective of women parody the misogynistic statements from the show in a provocative way.

A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

Raised by the same woman, the dark-complexioned, Asmar, and the flaxen-haired, Azur, set out on a quest to a strange and magical land to liberate the enchanting Djinn-fairy; but, only one can save her. Will the brothers be triumphant?

One gets closer to an imprisoned princess when the diamonds are more and more numerous in the grass. Yet something seems to go wrong around her: all the princes who have tried to save her have now disappeared.

Here we have an innocent boy, a pretty princess, a treacherous merchant and a giant eagle who is fond of jewels. The tale is set in the country of the Arabian Nights, under a hail of precious stones...

Up above, an unapproachable princess. Down below, a poor ridiculed hunchback.

In a hotel lobby, an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one, hiding under the bed of an elderly husband. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover.

A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs and tries to do something to change that.

Jerry Beall, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara Hammond, a girl accused of murdering a female radio-star, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence, abetted by the lack of truth in many of Barbara's statements. But Barbara winds up in a romantic clinch instead of the electric chair, after a series of sequences that reveal the fallacy of jumping to conclusions.

An expressionistic interpretation of 'Danse macabre' by Camille Saint-Saëns.

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.

Film as a sort of family therapy – an unvarnished chronicle of a divorced mother in West Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel neighbourhood. She talks without reserve about why her family is falling apart, while at the same time discussing her own ambitions.

Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.

A spectator, a string puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the Butterfly Woman, another string puppet with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings that hold him in his place as a spectator give way. Thus free, he runs to the Butterfly Woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.

Zohra, 50 years old, is Algerian. She is employed in the household of a young couple. For the first time in her life, she goes to the beach.

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with Heinrich, who ups the ante by suggesting they have a child. She takes him seriously by initiating a journalistic project interviewing working mothers, asking how they balance work and family, delving into their sexual histories. Heinrich sulks when she spends evenings on the project, he's childish. Should she leave him? The story plays out against the backdrop of left-wing political agitation.

On her birthday, Juliette is too sad to be worried about the strange cleaning lady who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

One Sunday, Marguerite, a young pregnant woman from Rouen, and Mario, a Spanish sailor in transit, meet while waiting for a train.

Paul's life story leads to a sign.

Lucie is thirtyish, shy and introverted. During a party at friends', she meets Bertrand with whom she falls in love immediately. Longing for true love, she focuses all her desires and expectations on him.

Nijinsky, the God of Dance, has been insane for 20 years. His wife, Romola, with the help of Serge Lifar, tries to bring him back to life.

Ce programme réunit 11 courts métrages réalisés par Alice Guy : La Fée aux choux, Comment monsieur prend son bain, Le Matelas épileptique, Les Résultats du féminisme, Madame a des envies, Une femme collante, Le Bonnet à poil, Une héroîne de 4 ans, La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, Sur les barricades et Alice Guy tourne une photoscène.

Dans son documentaire …ce qui importe, c’est de le transformer, la réalisatrice s'intéresse aux ouvrières de l'industrie métallurgique à Francfort, Wetzlar et Mannheim. Elle rend visible la manière dont le travail en usine et le travail familial se conditionnent mutuellement en tant que lieux d'exploitation qu'il ne suffit pas d'interpréter, mais qu'il faut fondamentalement changer. Ce sont les femmes elles-mêmes qui s'expriment dans le film et qui discutent entre elles des possibilités et conditions de changement. "Le tournage était extrêmement compliqué et la direction des entreprises généralement peu intéressée à rendre publics les conditions de travail catastrophiques des femmes. Il fallait une sorte de "Wallraffiade" féminine* pour obtenir les autorisations de tournage en faisant semblant d'aborder des sujets supposés et d'autres intentions".

Mai 1968 Paris France. 8 millions de Français sont en grève. La Sorbonne est prise d'assaut, les étudiants occupent les locaux universitaires où ils imposent un débat social et remettent en question les institutions conventionnelles.

Quel rôle joue le cinéma dans ce contexte ? Comment s’engagent les cinéastes dans le contexte d'une politique culturelle à redéfinir ? Des étudiants en cinéma, des lycéens, des ouvriers — notamment des usines Citroën —, mais aussi des réalisateurs confirmés comme Jean-Luc Godard, participent dans ce film aux débats et aux affrontements des collectifs de cinéma nés en mai 68. Ce n'est qu’un début, continuons le combat - Le film comme arme politique est un document unique de cette époque.

The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs and tries to do something to change that.

Jerry Beall, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara Hammond, a girl accused of murdering a female radio-star, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence, abetted by the lack of truth in many of Barbara's statements. But Barbara winds up in a romantic clinch instead of the electric chair, after a series of sequences that reveal the fallacy of jumping to conclusions.

A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary."

The lyrical, impressionist film takes place in Óbuda in the thirties. The smart, unemployed Pettersen meets the immaculately clean worker girl. They spend several nights together in the little hut of the man built of trash. Vera works in a laundry, but all her wish is to become a dancer. The boss, Weiszhaupt, notices the girl. The defenceless Vera leaves Pettersen for the promise of a safe future. When the man gets himself a job in the laundry as well, he sees her again as Weiszhaupt's lover. True love arises in Vera, but now Pettersen refuses her.

Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták, a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová, takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.

The documentarist film depicts how a young weaver girl is trying to find herself and what identity-problems she has. Szőnyi Erzsi, textile-worker, grew up in Fót, the town for neglected children. She puts an advertisement in the papers, trying to find her parents and unexpectedly gets a reply. She visits her mother in Várkút, who is scared of her beautiful and too natural daughter and continues to hide their relationship from her husband. Erzsi, lonesome and depressed by her failure lets things happen to her. She starts a passing affair with the boy she met on the train. She listens to a depraved man who tells her about his dead parents and comforts him. Then, in a club, where the Illés Band is playing she does not resist Gábor's defiant glances, either.

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.

Kourou, a young villager, decides to conquer Kinshasa, the capital. But it is easier said than done. In the big city, Kourou finds nothing but odd jobs and throws his life away with prostitutes. One day he is even fired for stealing. The situation seems hopeless but the worm turns the moment when, after entering a bar, Kourou takes a mike in his hands and starts singing.

The dying Szindbád, knight of fairy tales, searches for the purpose of life staggering along the border of life an death. He believes to have found beauty in the organically transforming nature, in sensual and culinary pleasures. His memories come to life: photographs that are now brown, withered flowers, yellowish pages of love letters. He sees the row of women who have been dear to his heart; Florentin, Lenke, Fruzsina, the little flower girl and the others. He remembers how the tactful waiter, Vendelin, used to tell about his wife between the bone with marrow and the fried pheasant, and the way he would curse that unknown nobleman, - i.e. himself, Szinbád, - with whom she ran away and who drove her to commit suicide. An autonomous spirit, and everlasting searching for perfection makes it impossible for Szinbád to find peace in a single woman's love, and his loneliness is dissolved only at the table laid by the motherly Majmunka. His last journey takes him to the church. In the spiritedness of the organist, Angyal, Szinbád experiences the completeness of life, and in that moment he reaches true death.

A surreal-looking episodic film about the freedom of trying out new lifestyles and dropping out of society. Hans, who lives aimlessly into the day, meets the successful guy Ardy and because he suddenly wants to stop doing nothing, he gets left by his girlfriend Petra …

The film is about the possible attitudes one can assume towards tyranny and dictatorship in the modern man's perspective. Oreste and Elektreia stand up against oppression of freedom in the name of justice, law, and revolution. On the day of Aegistos' accession to the throne - and which is supposed to be the day of telling the truth - people remain silent. The "cracked-brained" is the only one who instigates, waiting desperately for Oreste. Her brother arrives to take vengeance for his father, and they kill each other to rise later as phoenix birds again and again wherever freedom is wanted. A red colour helicopter takes them there.

Scenes from a marriage in crisis. Karin Hendrich is 30, the mother of a young daughter. Before marrying, she was an interpreter. Her husband, Robert, doesn’t understand why she wants to go back to work. He’s a shipyard engineer and can provide for everything Does he suspect that Karin is cheating on him with Ulrich, one of his freelance colleagues?

The film is a tension-filled parable about the power of order, cruelty and submissive behaviour. A young man arrives at a falconers' plant for summer exercise. The plant stands in the middle of barren land, secluded from everything and managed by the fanatic Lilik, keeping rigorous discipline. Besides him and the falconers only Teréz lives there. The Boy learns the tasks at the plant and is captivated by the elementary force and beauty of the flight of the falcons. Yet he is more and more abhorred by the spiritual terror and the barbaric order used by Lilik to subdue his men. He endures the man-probing hunt but releases the captured falcon in the end. Teréz and the Boy are attracted to each other but she is unable to break out. After a mighty, devastating storm, the Boy packs his belongings and leaves. The others stay.

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

Seventeen-year-old Jóska is captured by the Soviet in the last days of World War II. He is posted to a soldier lad to help him guard the cowherd. Jóska tries to escape, Kolja keeps him from entering the mined area using his gun. Despite their opposed position and language barrier a friendly relationship is formed between them. They feast on the meat of the exploded cow together and chase girls when Kolja suddenly dies of a former injury. Jóska tries to get to the station dressed in his uniform. Some of the former POWs recognize him and thinking that he was a collaborate they beat him up thoroughly.

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.

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with Heinrich, who ups the ante by suggesting they have a child. She takes him seriously by initiating a journalistic project interviewing working mothers, asking how they balance work and family, delving into their sexual histories. Heinrich sulks when she spends evenings on the project, he's childish. Should she leave him? The story plays out against the backdrop of left-wing political agitation.

Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain. But during his last secret visit he leaves his gloves there, then wakes up the Barlay-house in the night, drunken and noisy. Therefore, the doctor asks him for a duel. On the day of the dual Barlay is found dead. He has been shot down from behind. Everybody knows who the murderer is, but defending the honour of the uniform is the first priority. The lieutenant's servant's confession is accepted, and the naive Kaál Samu believes Ferdinándy, i.e. that nothing is going to happen to him. Samu continues to believe his master until the moment of his execution. A disgusted lieutenant is discharged, and the regiment moves on to the next town.

Bernhard has to drop out of university after an altercation with a neo-Nazi. He falls in love with Johanna, the daughter of a building contractor, and travels to Prague with her. Johanna's father pulls the strings in the background to put his future son-in-law on the right track from his point of view…

Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.

Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.

A film of loosely connected episodes and a ballad-like atmosphere records Hungarian peasant life in the fifties and the sixties through the story of young Pásztor Balázs. His innocent father is imprisoned in the fifties and thus Balázs, who wants to be a film director, is not admitted to film academy. He is employed in a co-operative as a land-surveyor. While he is organising a farming centre with his friend, Iliász, a Greek partisan, the local leaders force the men to join the co-operative. The angry women blame the uncompromising Iliász and beat him to death. Balázs is then at a Gypsy camp, where he can see how the authorities of cultural supremacy tread on human rights. He takes shocking photos of the decontamination squad's operation.

Inspired by Robert Flaherty's narrative documentaries, the Jewish ethnologist and filmmaker Friedrich Dalsheim made this expedition film with a fiction plot. The villagers of Bedulu on Bali live in peace and harmony. Only witches and demons threaten their happiness by causing trouble and bringing disease to the village. Even Wajan and Sari can only come together after they have overcome the demonic forces.

Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and scenes taken in modern Brussels in this elliptical experimental feature.

This is the first film of the "Hungarian new wave". A company of young people spend their summer holidays by the Tisza. They are absorbed in sun-bathing and swimming, and more and more of them dive into the depth of the river to collect some mud. None of the young people notices that one of them is no longer with them, that Gabi drowned in the river. The tragedy which happened to their friend forces them to examine their own conscious asking themselves who is responsible, how they relate to the world and each other. They grow into adulthood burdened by the tragedy, their relationships are transformed. Luja and Zoli are willing to face their conscience. Laci finds consolation in abstract principles, while others try to idealise their role.

In this satire on Art under Socialism, a minor musician who plays the humble triangle becomes a tyrannical orchestra director.

Nyúl Béla, the insignificant teacher of Latin, father of four, writes a study on Hannibal, which states that the war lord became the victim of the revolution in Carthago. A journalist appears at Nyúls', he makes an interview, the family is happy: the bread-and-jam age is over. In the Parliament however, the extreme right wing makes a scandal on the pretext of the paper and Nyúl Béla is dismissed. The teacher pays a visit to his former classmate, the right wing representative Muray. He promises help, but in a great assembly in the Amphiteatrum he already heats the mob against Nyúl. The teacher publicly "becomes converted". He is taken aback by the bursting out enthusiasm of the mob, and falling from the cornice he crashes to his death.

A French-like burlesque about the adventures of a young boy in the first grade of elementary school. He gets acquainted with time, then, accompanied by his father, leaves home to spend his first day at school. On the way there, he meets Zizi, and they become friends. Mischief interests him more than learning to write, but he is not alone by this inclination. His imagination colours reality around him. He is cured from a major disease, makes adventures in social life, learns to know the adult world. He imagines his uncle, whom he does not love and whom he continuously escapes, to be set in prison. A baby is born in the family, and it is much bigger happiness than his excellent marks, only Zizi needs to be comforted because she failed in a subject. But there is no problem because he makes a promise to marry her. When he grows up.

Two ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.

Persuaded by the janitor's wife, a lively, but lonesome old woman, who is only attached to the world through her cherished objects and memories, decides to exchange her two-room apartment for a smaller one. For a little while her everyday life is changed. She meets and entertains new people every day. She is in her element when the inquirers swarm into the apartment. After moving in to the tiny and quiet apartment she picked and chose in Buda, she longs to be back in the noisy tenement house.

"Our profession is photography" - sings and advertises Sebő, the herald of a group of travelling photographers, knocking at the doors of village houses. The photographer takes the photos as they have been ordered, the retoucher manages the business, and if people want a rosier picture than the harsh reality of their own faces is he is ready to retouch the photos. And most people choose this option: the photographer is vainly trying to persuade them to choose the true and more telling pictures. Yet, a rich material of the past gets revealed from behind the scenes of the locals' lives: while the retoucher is working on the pictures, the photographer is digging deep in the thirty-odd years old life stories and which "can as well be framed and put on the wall". An old lady, Mrs. Nyerges recalls the tragedy of her husband's murdered daughters, too. The picture taken of the murderous mother turns up as well.

When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.

Daniel accidentally witnesses a man being robbed in the street. After his report to the police doesn't get the attention he had hoped for, he starts looking for an explanation himself and becomes more and more entangled in doubts about his environment and his own actions.

Warning : Purgatory contains images of organs and animal dissections.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Anna est serveuse dans un dancing parisien qu'elle quitte pour travailler dans un hôpital caritatif. Au fil des ans, elle se hisse à la tête de l'institution, mais lorsqu'un vieil habitué du dancing reconnaît sa photo, il tente de la faire chanter. La Tare est exemplaire des intentions de Louis Feuillade envers la ligne, tant esthétique que morale, de sa collection de films classés sous l’enseigne de « la Vie telle qu’elle est », équivalent cinématographique des romans de Zola et de Goncourt.

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen.

A wife obsesses over the fact that a fortune teller revealed husband's voyage to America is doomed, he is booked to sail on the Titanic.

Since 1695 the people of Brussels know that their 'Manneken Pis' is an easy target for thieves and jokers. Machin uses this premise and makes his panther steal the statue.

A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote it. The actress of the play receives a call from the author and the two quickly becomes friends but the man won't give any details about himself because he has a secret.

Touristic film in which two children discover Brussels's leading monuments and sights.

Ce programme réunit 11 courts métrages réalisés par Alice Guy : La Fée aux choux, Comment monsieur prend son bain, Le Matelas épileptique, Les Résultats du féminisme, Madame a des envies, Une femme collante, Le Bonnet à poil, Une héroîne de 4 ans, La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ, Sur les barricades et Alice Guy tourne une photoscène.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.

An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction that centers around a shy young girl on the cusp of an illicit relationship with her soccer coach.

Mr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.