1988 Watchlist

Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.

A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.

A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.

A soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.

An evil force begins to destroy the idyllic paradise of Gandahar, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.

The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.

The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few years in prison and especially discovering his wife has cheated on him soured their relation. He is not sure if he wants to go back to his old life and family. Wandering through the night his old friend "El-Negro" appears in the dark. He announces that he was assassinated during the military coup and he is a dead man now. But he has a special mission this night and he is back for this special occasion: To help Floreal catch up fast and face with his life and his time in prison. El-Negro helps him to watch through the important events happened in his absence. He confronts some people of importance to him as he wanders around through the night while his wife is waiting for him anxiously thinking he might never come back. During the long night El-Negro helps him to get past with his anger, makes him to understand the difficulties in such a controversial time and how military coup crushes people's lives and even killing a some of them relentlessly. Finally during the dawn, El-Negro announces that he is ready to go on with his life now and he must be back. Floreal figures that he must be strong and continue his life where he left off like his coup stricken country.

Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

The film tells the epic story of an expedition that took place between 1560 and 1561, headed by Pedro de Ursúa, in search of "El Dorado." The territory they explored subsequently became Colombia. Three hundred men sold their property and souls to travel down the biggest and least known river in the world. After the rebellion of Lope de Aguirre (who took over command) against Philip II, the king of Spain, this expedition became one of the best-known episodes in the conquest of "The New World." Accompanied by a team of all types, Lope de Aguirre's adventure will end in tragedy, exposing the full range of human miseries.

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.

In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.

In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.