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As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva, taxi-driver Hector hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. His next passenger is James, who needs to go to the airport to pick up his girlfriend Eva. Once they've done this, Hector suggests taking them to his home, where he lets Eva seduce him. James is later found dead in a field and Eva disappears. Hector wonders whether he was actually an unwitting witness to James' death the day before. Even if all this seems like a strange dream, it might well be reality.

After completing military service, Juan Pedro returns to his village. There he falls in love with the gypsy Carmela and, despite the prejudices of the people, the couple decides to get married. But soon the problems with the other gypsies arise and, by an old quarrel, the tragedy looms over all the characters.

(aka Dead City) A deadly squad of C.Z.A.s (Cybernetic Zombie Assassins) holds the city of Detroit in a grip of bloody violence. Bloody shoot-outs & explosions highlight this action/horror classic featuring Bill Hinzman (Night of the Living Dead), and Ron Asheton (Iggy & The Stooges). Very dark & V

A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics and misfits as he travels, before reaching some sort of peace in Hawaii.

The Cowboys are lured from Mexico to Coney Island by their former manager who disappeared at the end of Leningrad Cowboys Go America. He believes he is the reincarnation of Moses, sent to lead them back to the promised land - Siberia.

After dodging the speed cops, Barry Macklin arrives in his hometown of Hillsboro, where he is supposed to act as negotiator between his father, Andrew Macklin, and the mayor, Ezra Sprowl.

Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?

The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.

Mexican former Olympic swimmer Alberto Isaac's record of the Mexico City Olympic Games is a celebration not of national achievement (very few national anthems are heard during the film), but of individual heroism. This thoughtful and comprehensive film bristles with offbeat moments, such as underwater shots of the violence and cheating during the water polo matches. The film also yields iconic images, like Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, on the winners' podium for the 200 meters, their heads bowed, raising clenched, black-gloved fists to the sky in a dramatic gesture of black power and, as Smith has said, of frustration.

Two brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunken father out of a window for killing their pet sheep. When a girl is raped by her father, she is brought by young "rescuers" to the home of the two brothers who then watch their friends take advantage of her sexually. The brothers take her in, and the three live happy and celibate if not uneventful lives until the brothers are sent to jail for stealing.

Paul is a young Jewish man whose obsession with the Holocaust interferes with his love life. His long-distance relationship with Dunia, a non-Jewish woman from the former Yugoslavia, is threatened by his readiness to see Hitler everywhere, even in himself. When Dunia finally makes the trip to New York, Paul must overcome his detached intellectualism and make an emotional leap.

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon as he's crossed the border, he reports to the police. He claims his order was to kidnap someone, but he doesn't know who yet. He's forced to continue feignedly. However the east agents don't really trust him and play a double game...

Set in in suburban Los Angeles, "Life is Nice..." is a comedic post, post-modern tale of love, friendship, perhaps boredom and a girl. A wacky surreal world where nothing is what it seems. While following their often humorousadventures, the film explores the relationship between two old friends, Josh (Forest), and Silo (Mike Dytri), as they try to find the meaning in their quite often meaningless existence. The film'spivotal character is Clara (Kia Collin), Josh's Domineering and often manipulative girlfriend. As Clara plays the emotions of the two friends against each other, they discover just what their friendship is made of & what a girlfriend is or isn't.

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estevão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.

The Algerian War is seen through the eyes of a group of Algerian freedom-fighters who have been captured and incarcerated in French-run military prisons both in France and Algeria. In addition to attempts at escape, this prison drama also includes propaganda and brainwashing attempts by the French and scenes of torture. In what is possibly the most horrible torture of all, the inmates are forced to listen to broadcast speeches by General Charles de Gaulle. Speeches which illustrate the changing relations between the French and the Algerians.