BONA

DescriptionDescription Bona is an 1 8-year-old woman of a lower middle class family in the Philippines. Young and romantic in the midst of the poverty and hardship around her, she one day spies Gordo, a young actor, performing a bit role in a film. She follows him home, only to witness him being beaten up...

BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE

DescriptionDescription Married doldrums are out, swinging is in. Sex-savvy couple Robert Culp and wife Natalie Wood show bored Dyan Cannon and bewildered lawyer-husband Elliott Gould how it's done. A comic, unabashedly commercial debut for director Paul Mazursky. 1969. 104 min.

BLUE MOUNTAIN

DescriptionDescription The Balmer villa is just as perfect and pleasant as can be. Manfred is a respected and well-to-do businessman, Renate a competent and happy housewife, and their pre-teen daughter, Sonia, a nice young lady. Within this idyllic household, however, a silent storm simmers. Emerging from adolescence, young Sonia longs for more. She finds the...

BLACK DJU

DescriptionDescription From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Islands, it's one very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journ?y 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. But it's not just the weather that's not welcoming,...

THE BLIND COW (DIE BLINDE KUH)

DescriptionDescription Satellite television in 1994 is available for all Europeans to enjoy. What is puzzling scientists as well as the public is why the ominous flickering swastikas and images of Hitler have been appearing on a certain satellite frequency. Two highly opposing figures meet and embark upon an investigation: a Luxembourg engineer and science fiction...

BETWEEN THE FAMILIAR

DescriptionDescription In Brighton Beach, a young girl feels estranged from her pretentious mother, and finds strength with a lonely salesman.

BETWEEN PANCHO VILLA AND A NAKED WOMAN (ENTRE PANCHO VILLA Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA)

DescriptionDescription This story describes the dilemma of Gina, an enterprising, fortyish, divorced woman who wants more out of her casual relationship with Adrian, a liberal intellectual who's in it only for some good sex and shies away from any form of commitment. Adrian, who is writing a book on Pancho Villa's life, uses the famed...

BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA

DescriptionDescription Set in Greenville, S.C., not long after WWII, this story looks behind Tobacco Road cliches to evoke the complex weave of love, hardship and family bonds that conditioned the life of the poor whites in the days before New South prosperity kicked in. Pie opens with a narrator recalling that she was born after...

BAD BOY BUBBY

DescriptionDescription Bubby's entire knowledge of the universe stops at the walls of the two-room slum he has been confined to for the thirty-eight years since his birth. He knows of the existence of only himself and his mother. He plays with the feral cat and the cockroaches. Mom vaguely looks after him. Until Pop comes...

BACKGROUND NOISE (R.D.F.: RUMORE DI FONDO)

DescriptionDescription Three working-class kids from the fringes of Rome murder a loan shark and then take a woman hostage. Corrupt cop Tiresia turns up on the scene, hoping for a swift and reputable conclusion, but all sides suffer together in this urban battle.

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