1997 Movies

Amanda is a student obsessed with all things French. Holed up with the flu in her Brixton flat, she is awoken in the dead of night by a burglar who's...

Kiriu believes Miki is the ideal woman he's been looking for, but she's already taken. Kiriu's chance comes when Miki's husband dies of cancer. Howeve...

A portrait of French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992),through archival films from 1964 to 1987.

A secret agent who dies on a mission asks Heaven to let him go back to Earth to complete his mission, and much to his disapproval, he is reincarnated...

Host Richard Crenna reviews various theories on the existence of a site for the legendary Atlantis described by Plato and envisioned by mystic Edgar C...

A postman has to face down a dangerous dog and an ex partner.

Interview with David Bowie, in an original format of non-linear edition, cut-and-paste style.

As daughter of an Austrian baroness and a Dutch geologist, Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now 84) lived on the move. She has for insta...

This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a...

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Film inspired by a poem from João Cabral de Melo Neto and his life in Capibaribe.

Roumanian born conductor, Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996) refused to record any of his performances. This documentary tries to provide some insight int...

Sinan is a second generation Turkish immigrant. He is young, restless and he likes the ladies. His parents have found him a bride, the beautiful Gül....

Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "12 Angry Men."

In the Barrio there's one way in...no way out. When a young man is arrested for dealing drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some bi...

A dude throws a party, unaware that a hungry alien has taken up residence in his garage.