The Tail (1989)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A very old woman wants to have dinner with her friends. As they are all dead, the butler has to play the role of every guest.

CIA agent John Jessup lives a seemingly normal life in the busy capitol of Berlin. He is in one of CIA’s most important sleeper cells in Europe, but on his last mission in Italy, he made a terrible mistake, putting not only himself in danger, but also the very existence of the CIA in Europe. The past is now about to catch up with him…

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

예복을 입고 피를 철철 흘리는 ‘신’(神)이 할복을 하는 장면으로 영화가 시작한다. 스스로의 배를 째고 내장을 끄집어내 신은 죽음에 이른다. 그 시체 속에서 모습을 드러낸 ‘어머니 지구’는 신의 시체를 뒤져서 얻은 정액으로 스스로 임신한다. 임신한 그녀는 광활하고 척박한 어딘가를 방황한다. 그녀는 다 자란 기형적인 남자를 낳는다. ‘지구의 아들’은 한 무리의 무표정한 유목민들을 만난다. 유목민들은 길다란 탯줄 또는 밧줄로 지구의 아들을 묶어 붙잡는다. 지구의 아들은 유기물질을 구토하고, 유목민들은 이것을 축복으로 받아들인다. 마침내 유목민들은 그를 불속으로 끌고 가 불태운다. 어머니 지구는 부활한 아들을 발견하고 그를 도우려 한다. 그녀는 예의 탯줄 또는 밧줄과 유사한 줄로 그를 묶어 붙잡는다. 그때 유목민들이 다시 나타나 어머니 지구를 강간하고 죽인다. 지구의 아들은 죽어 널부러진 어머니 곁에 남겨져 울부짖는다. 여러 명의 사람들이 나타나 어머니 지구를 옮긴 뒤 시체를 훼손한다. 그 뒤 지구의 아들에게로 와서 그 역시 죽인 뒤 시체를 훼손한다. 사람들은 시체 토막들을 땅 여기 저기에 골고루 나눠 심는다. 그 묻힌 곳에 꽃이 우거지게 핀다. -위키피디아

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet.

비가 내리던 날 '그녀'에게 주워진 고양이 쵸비는 그녀의 자그마한 아파트에서 함께 살게 된다. 쵸비에게 있어 그녀는 주인이라기 보다는 동거인이며 관찰의 대상이다. 출근 준비를 하는 그녀를 바라보거나, 따스한 햇살을 받으며 뒹굴거리거나, 가끔은 여자친구인 미미를 만나거나 하는 고양이 쵸비. 대화는 나누지 않지만 어느새 쵸비에게는 그녀의 외로움이 전해져 온다.

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activity that rings the Pacific Ocean and the varied people and cultures who coexist with them. Spectacular volcanic eruptions are featured, including Mount St. Helens, Navidad in Chile, Sakurajima in Japan, and Mount Merapi in Indonesia.

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

In this early stop-motion film by Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer, a device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series of events whenever the clock chimes.

In one of Jan Svankmajer's many mind-blowing, deliberately weird short films, a picnic consists of a suit sunbathing, a phonograph playing records, a shovel digging holes, and a camera taking pictures.