Grace leaves her old folks’ home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.

An artist, Steve Rogers, is nearly murdered by spies, looking for his late father’s national secrets. He is saved during surgery when a secret formula is injected into him; this…

Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.

Jonathan Harker, a real state agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his…

A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in…

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

A female doctor returns from the city to her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia in the 1930s, intending to bring modern medical care to the area’s impoverished…

Part of BFI collection “The Art of Travel.”

Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the…

Merging the subjective and the objective, the autobiographical and the anthropological, The Laughing Alligator is a highly personal observation of an indigenous South American culture. Recorded while he and his…

Blood of the Railroad Workers (Norwegian: Rallarblod) is a 1979 Norwegian drama film directed by Erik Solbakken, starring Nils Ole Oftebro and Ragnhild Hilt. A group of rallare (migratory rail…

BBC documentary about the rise of early electronic music, use of synthesisers and the work of the radiophonic workshop.

Sandhya is a renowned Brahmin dancer and is in love with Hari, who belongs to the Dalit community. She gets married to a man of her grandfather’s choice, but can’t…

Also known as Hong Kong.

Rockpile plays for a Danish Television audience in 1979. Tracks: 1.DOWN,DOWN,DOWN 2.I KNEW THE BRIDE 3.DEBORAH 4.LET IT ROCK 5.HERE COMES THE WEEKEND 6.LOVE SO FINE 7.PROMISED LAND 8.THEY CALLED…

A dreaded sickness destroys Karen Viljoen life as rich man’s wife. She is diagnosed as leprous. While Karen is in the Westford hospital with her sickness, her husband Otto finds…

This 1979 documentary depicts the daily life of gangs in the South Bronx. It deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known as the “Savage Skulls” and…

A doctor goes to a dinner party where he’s made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.

Rhythm of Resistance examines the vital role of music in the lives of black South Africans under the oppressive regime of apartheid.

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

Timothy Hutton and Valerie Bertinelli play two youngsters in love in this TV movie.

Pollini plays flawlessly, with the greatest finesse and sensitivity, very much in tune with each composer’s personal style. His performances are exemplary in every respect. The video and audio are…

When a comrade is captured by a hostile warlord, five martial arts masters confront the villain’s foot soldiers, valiantly battling through their resistance until they come face to face with…

A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill…

The stars are cast as a gorgeous woman, a mystic and a kung-fu expert. They team up to form a united front when an insidious empire threatens the well-being of…

A powerful crime syndicate known as the Chi Sha clan is a vast network of deadly criminals proficient in martial arts. Growing in number at an alarming rate, the Imperial…

Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without tutelage.

The Flintstones and Rubbles win a trip on “Make a Deal or Don’t” to Count Rockula’s castle in Rocksylvania where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and his…

A guy trains to fight in kung fu.

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini’s La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera’s comic heroine Musetta to investigate…

The two musical masters swing out.

Recorded on December 31, 1978, when the Blues Brothers opened for the Grateful Dead on the monumental closing night of Winterland, this recording captures a full unedited performance of the…

After his wife leaves him, Paul (John Stride) seeks solace at a sophisticated health spa run by a pair of sinister siblings (played by Geoffrey Burridge and Elizbeth Romilly). Strangely…

General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large…

This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy “Il Gatto Mammone”, combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca (“The Eroticist”, “Il Domestico”) with gorgeous, oft-nude body…

At the New York State University, one of Peter Parker’s tutors has accidentally given three students all the materials they need to create an atomic bomb. While Peter Parker tries…

Crippled Avengers is a 1978 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh and starring four members of the Venom Mob. It has been released in North America as…