Thriller is an anthology series of single plays – some horrific, some darkly hilarious. Highly-popular and critically acclaimed in its time, the show attracted a high calibre of stars. With tales featuring foreign agents and time-bending serial killers (and all points in between!), Thriller set a new benchmark for quality horror in the 1970s.Read More »
Thriller is an anthology series of single plays – some horrific, some darkly hilarious. Highly-popular and critically acclaimed in its time, the show attracted a high calibre of stars. With tales featuring foreign agents and time-bending serial killers (and all points in between!), Thriller set a new benchmark for quality horror in the 1970s.Read More »
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Singapore’s top policewoman, Miss Cleopatra Wong, who heads the Seasian Interpol Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D.), teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit currency operation that threatens several Asian countries with bankruptcy. Their dangerous quest takes them from Singapore to Hong Kong and finally Manila where they locate the counterfeit ring’s Asian headquarters, which is being run by local nuns, forced into slave labor. The martial arts action is fast and furious as Cleopatra and her teams launch an attack to destroy the counterfeiter’s and their headquarters in an explosive finale in this fun-filled, action-packed adventure.Read More »
A visual onslaught of artistic ideas, showing how art relates to and intertwines with our daily lives.
Art, personified here as an opera-singing Valkyrie, hang-glides down from the clouds to check on the state of the arts in Australia – from painting, writing and music to dance, theatre, puppetry and sculpture. Featuring John Bell, Anna Volska, Reg Livermore, Rory O’Donohue, David Gulpilil and the work of Thomas Keneally and Patrick White among others, this is a phantasmagoria of filmic effects.Read More »
Bruce Petty, one of Australia’s greatest political cartoonists, created an Oscar-winning film from his inventive and amusing exploration of the history of work and leisure.
A fast-paced, humorous and thought-provoking film using animation by Australian newspaper cartoonist Bruce Petty. This Oscar-winning film emphasises the use of leisure time as an important aspect of life in our society today. Planning for recreation and leisure time should be undertaken both on a personal and on a public level.Read More »
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it’s too late.Read More »
PLOT: A fascinating portrait of life in Manila’s corrupt, teeming and polluted urban jungle, Manila in the Claws of Light tells the story of Julio, a 21-year-old fisherman who arrives in the Filipino capital looking for his girlfriend. Immediately robbed of what little cash he has, he scrabbles to survive, drifting through a number of temporary jobs, while wandering the city in search of his beloved.Read More »
The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ringleader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam’s shows always feature her bodacious nieces Susanna and Karen, who perform in everything from striptease to S&M acts. Eventually, Karen meets a nice rich gentleman and runs away with him whereas Susanna falls in love with a deceptive airport cargo handler.Read More »
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A grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers is being prepared in a restaurant, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
Berlin Golden Bear Award Winner 1978Read More »