Films Around the World

A wealthy businessman attempts to run to Mexico to escape capture for embezzlement. On the way, he switches identities for a visa but that only complicates matters.

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing, the "back-room boy" investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.

Arthur and his friends, Stinker, are invited to an audition at the BBC. The duo install themselves in a disused studio at Broadcasting house where they plan to transmit a pirate broadcast. With the public, the BBC and police on their tail, will they make it?

During WWII, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating females, and the antics begin!

Legendary comedian, writer, actor and director Buster Keaton delivers three of his funniest and most memorable shorts with "The Balloonatic", "The Blacksmith", and "Cops". Come along for the ride with outrageous physical comedy and slick humor by none other than the master himself!

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a "big man's" daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate's sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.

Paris is Burning! Under the Iron Fist of Robespierre hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

A treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs.

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

In 1965, two Canadian documentarians spent a week with legendary composer Igor Stravinsky. From conducting a recording of "Symphony of Psalms" in Canada, to his travel on boat to Hamburg, Stravinsky and his comrades share philosophy, whiskey and insight from a life well lived.

In Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht.

Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories with supernatural twists and turns, this program sought out real stories of mystery, many of them unsolved to this day...