Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer (1979)

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.

RKO cartoon about a feline flapper who helps a farmer get his place up and running.

George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.

A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Barber Shop, and, of course, the notorious The Dentist." Pool Sharks is his first film ever, released in 1915; the rest are all five of Fields’ talking shorts, released from 1930 to 1933.

Суперпопулярный рок-певец Арни Хейнс решает отдохнуть летом вместе со своими музыкантами в их родном фермерско-пляжном городке, затерянном в американской глубинке. Неожиданно они встречают агрессивное неприятие со стороны местного мэра - ярого противника рок-н-ролла. Так же неожиданно эта кампания местного значения оказывается раздута газетами до национального масштаба. К восстановлению доброго имени рок-н-ролла привлекаются их коллеги - Билл Хейли, Трениерс, Литтл Ричард, Дейв Эппел. Но им предстоит пройти через много казусов и неожиданностей. По счастью, на их стороне Френси Маклейн - красивая и умная дочь влиятельной журналистки. А где такая девушка, там и любовь...

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?

It's a fairly straightforward piece in which Krazy gets involved with a dance contest, a bear, a skunk and a pawnbroker.

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.

Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.

Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.

Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

Макс не успевает к сроку сделать рисунки к новому фильму. Поэтому он посылает оператору только нарисованного клоуна, в надежде, что Коко сам как-нибудь управится. И он управился! Такой цирк с конями устроил, что и небесам не скучно было!

Веселая сюрреалистическая сатира Боба Годфри. Мультфильм высмеивает общественные запреты в отношении секса и взаимоотношений мужчины и женщины. Сюжет фильма «Кама Сутра…» рассказывает о сексуальных подвигах немолодой пары Стэнли и Этель. Супруги идут на все, чтобы разнообразить свою интимную жизнь. Стэнли ищет новизны и является движущей силой в паре. Между тем Этель ничего не остается, как терпеть проделки мужа и соглашаться на предложенные эксперименты, зачастую опасные. Бесстрастная и сдержанная британская мужественность противопоставляется диковинной и экстремальной сексуальной практике Кама-Сутры.

Адвокат Габриела Фройнд берет на себя защиту пожилого мужчины Аарона Райхенбаха, который напал в аэропорту на старика и избил его. Райхенбах отказывается разговаривать, что создает сложности для его адвоката. Тем не менее, Габриеле удается узнать, что потерпевший, Арнольд Кренн, является бывшим нацистским офицером, служившим в концентрационных лагерях. Кренн хочет, чтобы Райхенбах был осужден. Но Габриела открывает черные страницы прошлого, которое преследует героев... Сюжет фильма основан на реальных событиях - проведении медицинских экспериментов над двадцатью еврейскими детьми и последующей казни их в день рождения Гитлера.

In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners living in a camp in outback Australia. They swear, brawl, gamble, and drink heavily. Central to the story is the conflict between Tarzan, the authoritarian group leader and cocky loud-mouth wisecracking Pansy. This results in a bare-knuckle punch-up for the movie's denouement.

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.