I Was a Stranger

Aspects of a London day, including prostitutes on street corners, a striptease show and the 2i's Coffee Bar.

An ordinary day - so an eventful one - of Tom Katt, a young man who works as a drugstore owner's assistant: his - very acrobatic - bike ride to his place of work; the - fanciful - way he performs his job; the - ingenious - subterfuge he finds to help his employer, who has money problems; the - swift - way he escapes the cops chasing him...

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

Chile, 2016. Camila and Pedro, secondary students, meet at a manifestation to defend water. Their political affinity leads them to begin a relationship that unconsciously prepares them for war.

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

At the peak of his career, billionaire Krishnakant Jhunjhunwala realizes the futility of his success at the cost of his health. Leaving his empire behind, he seeks solace in Varanasi, embarking on a spiritual journey that transcends life and death, searching for true meaning beyond material existence.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

In Ireland they say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town. But what if you’ve only got two?

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

A story about a father and a son who are drinking milk together for the last time.

A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.

After years of living alone, Rhoda takes in a lodger, but the change unsettles the equilibrium of her home.

Short film by Brendan Muldowney.

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Having enabled a loss that now torments her, a woman enters an adult store in search of redemption. Adapted from a short story by Christos Tsiolkas.

Set against the backdrop of the execution of Ted Bundy in 1989, the story centers around a 16-year-old girl named Lauryn who makes a little extra money by taking and selling Polaroids of the people who are camped out near the prison, celebrating the execution.

A meditation on My Lai.

Spider-man must rescue the beautiful daughter of the evil Dr. Lightning.