RPA
RPA is an Australian reality television show that is filmed at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and shows the everyday workings of this major hospital in Sydney, Australia. Premiering in 1995,…
Ostia
Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of…
Voyage Into Space
Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored…
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
A Kamikaze Cop
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that…
Janie
A sadistic teenager searching for “Daddy” murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year’s approaches.
Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In
Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.
Ready Steady Cook
Ready Steady Cook is a BBC daytime TV cooking programme; it debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last edition was broadcast on 2 February 2010. The programme was hosted…
Awakening of the Beast
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60’s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
The Invisible Man’s Love Life
Young doctor Garondet is summoned by renowned Professor Orloff. At Orloff’s castle, Garondet discovers that the mad scientist has created an invisible yet murderous apeman.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored…
The Wandering Swordsman
In this thrilling martial arts twist on the tale of Robin Hood, a charismatic highwayman with formidable sword skills decides to help the poor by robbing from thieves and distributing…
Hope
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.
Trader Hornee
A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Lovefilm
A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After…
The Spider’s Stratagem
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he…
Tora-san’s Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he…
The Breach
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
Pippi in the South Seas
Pippi Longstocking, accompanied by friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on the South Seas to search for her father, who has been kidnapped by pirates.
The Phynx
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
Tora-san’s Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza’s son and at his sister Sakura’s urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
Notes Towards an African Orestes
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Brave Red Flower of the North
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji…
More About the Language of Love
In this explicit sex education film based on clinical research made by American and Swedish doctors, a panel of experts in the field of sex education discuss various aspects of…
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man’s wife, he also acquires a…
Lokis, a Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been…
Lady of Steel
A young swordswoman named Fang Ying-qi (Cheng Pei-Pei) sets out to join a gathering of the martial world’s leading warriors under the banner of Lord Xia (Fang Mien) and the…
Four Moods
Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Four Moods was an attempt to alleviate Li Han-hsiang’s financial troubles during the late 1960s….
The Grandmother
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Sunflower
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There’s a…
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of…
Uncle Vanya
Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor’s first wife, who manages…
A Drama of Jealousy (and Other Things)
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the…
Django Defies Sartana
Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a…
A Day at the Beach
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns…
Cool It, Carol!
A naive couple leave their small town for success in London’s adult entertainment culture.
Brothers Five
The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, seek to defeat the vicious gangsters…
Borsalino
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for…