All Films

The Temptation of Franz Schubert

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Director Peter Webber's dramatized exploration of the tumultuous life of Austrian composer Franz Schubert exposes the stark contradictions of the legendary artist, whose dark personal life was often veiled by his astonishing musical feats. Despite his many unseemly affairs, shameful transgressions and eventual hospitalization for syphilis, Schubert created some of the most melodic and mellifluous compositions known to man.

Bikini Tours

1997 • 56 min

It’s a top down bottoms-up trip to the wild, where savage is a tan, and the beast is the desire within you…as Player presents its brand new Bikini Tours. Our cameras search for the hottest starlets in bikiniville, find them, and get them to “peel down” as only we can. They dance, they move, they shake their groove thing, as you go to pieces over these two-pieced beauties. Suit up and go!

One World Globalism, the Anti-Christ, and Planet Earths Last Days

1997 • 53 min • United States of America

This prophecy movie is a breath-taking prophetic glimpse into the future. World renowned authors Hal Lindsay, Dr. Tim LaHaye, Marlin Maddoux, and Chuck Missler offer startling insights into the turbulent days in which we live. A political and spiritual conditioning process is now in full swing following such diverse events as the September 11th tragedy and the media hype surrounding the Harry Potter phenomenon. This fast-paced prophecy DVD presents a clear and concise scenario of the earth-shattering events which are about to unfold across our planet. An important and eye-opening warning for this generation.Based on the book "Earth's Two Minute Warning" and includes scenes from the original video of the same title.

The Adventures of Corduroy: Home

1997 • 25 min • United States of America

Based on the classic 1968 children's story by Don Freeman, this direct-to-video adventure tells the story of a kind-hearted stuffed bear named Corduroy who tries to find a home for Christmas with the help of his friends.

Magic School Lunar: Secret of the Blue Dragon

1997 • 10 min • Japan

Barua of the Magic Race (Vile Tribe) has kidnapped students of the Magic School. Elie, Rena and Senia, are asked to look for them by the schools master. Along their search they find interesting and crazy things, and get into trouble as usual. Upon finding the students, they find their magic is not strong enough to save them, but they get some help from an unwanted friend.

Battles on the Astral Plane

1997 • 3 min

Jon Raymond’s 1997 piece Battles on the Astral Plane, a clever mocking of the popular Mortal Kombat video game that shows Raymond’s crafty, self-effacing wit that can still be found in his books and screenplays (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Livability).

Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido

1997 • 4 min

"Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido" was used as the theme song for Hideaki Anno's 1998 live-action debut film "Love & Pop". The version in the film was performed by its lead actress Asumi Miwa.

Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen

1997 • 6 min

Members of the audience fight against stage performers set to a specially created Xena/Hercules movie.

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features a vast array of never-before-seen footage of the actor, ranging from remains of his 1918 film Struggle for Life to behind-the-scenes home movies on the set of RKO Studios. Lugosi is peppered with dozens of rare films clips and photographs, with the story itself coming to life thanks to the vast array of on-camera interviewees.

Whore training extreme rape

1997 • 60 min • Japan

Yuko, who works as a nurse at a hospital in Tokyo, has a good relationship with a doctor at the same hospital. If she has a problem, she has only one, Samejima, an inpatient. This dark, pungent, mysterious, eerie old man. Sometimes there was a certain light in the eyes that stared at Yuko...

UFOs: 50 Years of Denial?

1997 • 48 min • United States of America

Col. Phillip J. Corso, a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and Head of the U.S. Army's Foreign Technology Division at the Pentagon speaks candidly of overseeing the recovery of alien spacecraft and the harvesting of technology from recovered crash debris of extraterrestrial origin. Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell reveals that the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 was a real event and discusses the 50 years of cover-up that followed. Command Sgt. Major (ret.) Robert O. Dean, former intelligence analyst, discusses a top secret study conducted by NATO in the 1960s entitled 'An Assessment', classified as 'Cosmic Top Secret'. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Reagan and Bush confirms the existence of Area 51.

Earth's Two-Minute Warning

1997 • 54 min • United States of America

The two-minute warning signals the final and climactic moments of play in a football game. In this riveting and explosive new video, you'll discover why leading prophecy experts believe Earth's Two-Minute Warning has already sounded!

Groper Train: Tight Underwear

1997 • 60 min • Japan

Takeo, a university student, had a crush on Kaoru, an office lady who rides the same train to school. One day, Takeo found himself face to face with Kaoru on a crowded train. However, Kaoru was being molested and asked Takeo for help. But Takeo didn't have the courage to help her. After seeing Kaoru climax right in front of his eyes...

Cuban Serenade

1997 • 50 min • Cuba, Finland

Finnish documentary about Cuba.

Crayola Kids Adventures: The Trojan Horse

1997 • 47 min • United States of America

High atop Mount Olympus a feud erupts between three goddesses over who is entitled to the coveted Golden Apple. Their leader Zeus sends them to earth to let human mortals decide. Helen, Greece's beautiful Queen of Sparta, falls under the spell of the Golden Apple and is whisked away to Troy. The entire Greek army, among them the fearless warrior Odysseus, is enlisted to return her home. The cunning Odysseus devises the ultimate plan: The Greeks will build a great gift for the Trojans, a breathtakingly massive wooden horse. But little do the Trojans suspect that once they open their present, they're in for a big surprise!

Over the Rainbow

1997 • 10 min • France

An apartment building caretaker with cannibalistic tendencies indulges in his passionate love for Lisa, one of the tenants.

A Royal Scandal

1997 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

Born to Be Baby

1997 • 43 min • Japan

A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step further into the world of Ekin. This is the second art documentary film produced by the Museum of Art, Kochi, following Hiroyuki Oki's HEAVEN-6-BOX. This time, the stage performances of butoh greats Maro Akaji and Dairakudakan were documented by Hayashi Kaizo.

Sans Titre

1997 • 9 min • France

In 1997, for it's fiftieth anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival asked Leos Carax for a short film, a kind of postcard addressed to the festival, in which the director would give news of himself and of his film project "Pola X."

Simply Wilde

1997 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Stephen Fry discusses Oscar Wilde in relation to Wilde (1997) the biopic in which he starred as Wilde, released that same year.

Exodus 1947

1997 • 56 min

Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming the new State of Israel. The documentary focuses on clandestine and "illegal" American efforts to finance and crew the most infamous of ten American ships that attempted to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.

Minus 9

1997 • 12 min • Portugal

This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.

Pensão Globo

1997 • 15 min • Germany

A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on aimless excursions through the city. The film depicts a life in a state of transition. Sometimes it's like I'm already gone, become a ghost of myself.

Lily and Jim

1997 • 13 min • United States of America

Lily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.