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- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsGérard BlainBernadette LafontMichel FrançoisA group of five boys, the brats of the title, are all in love with an unbearably beautiful woman and so they spend their summer jealously harassing her and her boyfriend.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPeter BrummGeorg EskaKarl-Heinz SteffelFour guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsLefteris DaskalakisAntonis PapadakisThe story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don't have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPetar RadenkovicMario AdorfHans TiedemannThe film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogTom LuddyMichael GoodwinA short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.
- DirectorCharles BarroisStarsJacques TatiHélène PépéeRhumAn amateur actor, hen-packed loser, signs unwittingly a contract to fight against professional wrestler.
- DirectorJacques BerrStarsRhumJacques TatiTwo friends try to raise money by tricking people into an improvised leisure tour.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJacques TatiMax MartelLouis RoburA boxer is out in the country with his entourage, training for his next fight. Meanwhile, on the farm nearby, Roger is neglecting his chores. As he watches the boxer and his sparring partners at work, Roger starts to fantasize about being a boxer himself. Then, when none of the boxer's sparring partners can continue, he is asked to fill in, although he doesn't know anything about how to box.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiPaul DemangeSchool for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
- DirectorNicolas RibowskiStarsJacques TatiAlain FaynerMarc MonjouJacques Tati teaches an acting class about the subtleties of certain types of people to a group of eager (but not very talented) students.
- DirectorSophie TatischeffStarsDominique LavanantDédéGilberte GéniatDirected by Jacques Tati's daughter Sophie Tatischeff, Dégustation maison is a thirteen-minute comic short shot in a café in Sainte-Sévère-sur-indre, the same town where Tati's Jour de fête was filmed. It won the César Award For best short fiction film in 1978.
- DirectorJacques TatiSophie TatischeffA sports documentary short covering the soccer match for the UEFA cup of 1978, with the French Corsican team Bastia playing against the PSV Eindhoven club from the Netherlands.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsCleo MadisonArthur ShirleyMary KearnenA fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.
- DirectorNick GaltressJohn M. EastStarsMary MillingtonJohn M. EastFaith DaykinA tawdry tribute to Britain's number one sex symbol of the 1970's - Mary Millington. The film (made only a year after her tragic suicide) is a mixture of archive footage, interviews and new sex scenes.
- DirectorRoy DeverellStarsJohn M. EastBernie WintersMary MillingtonAs a 'tribute' to the late Mary Millington, a bunch of would-be strippers compete in London to become the 'World's Best'. Blue comedian Bernie Winters punctuates the action with a load of dirty jokes.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLouis MaïssBebyJean-Pierre MelvilleA day in the life of Beby the clown. Filmed between shows at Circus Medrano, at home and in the streets of Paris, with his faithful partner and friend the clown Maïss.
- DirectorJ. Farrell MacDonaldStarsMildred HarrisViolet MacMillanFred WoodwardFairies weave a magic cloak that grants one wish. They give it to an unhappy girl who has just lost her father and been forced to move into town with her brother, who becomes king, and her donkey, who becomes a hero.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsBebe DanielsHobart BosworthEugenie BessererAn early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
- DirectorTed EshbaughDorothy is swept in a twister from her boring Kansas farm to the wonderful land of Oz, where she makes some friends and is welcomed in the Emerald City.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykChris MarkerStarsMichel BoschetLigia BraniceAnatole DaumanConcerns a scientist's flight into outer space.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykOstensibly a film of a concert given by the round and unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm...
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykThe first three letters of the alphabet, brought to life through the animation of cutouts from a Victorian-era reference book.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykTo the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate - and a bomb...
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykA bizarre, semi-abstract animated film, based around the theme of angels being processed by a nightmarish factory. It has been interpreted as an allegory of the concentration camp experience and as a portrait of the industrialisation and collectivisation of the Soviet period.