1978 Movies

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film for director Shirley Clarke’s Four Journeys Into Mystic Time.

The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, New Gourna, Kom-Ombo.

Set after the unification of the Three Kingdoms, the film opens with a description of some of the lawlessness due to the threat of the Tang Dynasty, w...

The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defie...

Set in the thirties, a sensitive peasant boy who is caught in the vice of cruel military machine. From the start his masters treat him as an inanimate...

The bad guy, a stereotypical evil Chinese, smuggles bronze men into Thailand to work in his gold mine. But along the way there's a lot of victims.

Various politicians react to the proposals by Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch about power sharing in Northern Ireland as part of the series This Week.

After the death of the Father, the women of the family gather at an old isolated house. Old rivalries surface causing nobody to notice the youngest da...

An attack is carried out on the accountant of a research institute, and a large sum of money is stolen. The criminal investigation colonel not only so...

This short film from the series "Folk Rituals" depicts a tradition practiced in the Żywiec region associated with exchanging New Year’s greetings. Chi...

Tim Ritter's first short, which was him trying to pay homage to Superman.

A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.

I have a fixed idea about the screen that while it has no depth, we know that it is sprayed by 24 frames a second at the same point for an infinite am...

A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on...

Forty-year-old bachelor Vondráček lives with his mother, who is completely subservient to him and unable to confide in him about her late love. She is...

Documentary on the egalitarian religious community of Solentiname in Nicaragua, with an extensive intevew with its founder, the poet Ernesto Cardenal....

A César award nominated short feature.