New Wave (1983)

Boca de Ouro

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners

For more than one hundred years, the Swiss Social Democratic Party and the trade unions shaped Swiss working-class culture. In the seventies, this culture completely collapsed. The working class of yesteryear are called foreigners. An essay by an immigrant child from a former working class stronghold.

Birthright

When he learns of his mother’s death, Thomas returns to Brazil with Beni, his partner, and is told he now owns a country house that used to belong to a grandmother he never met. Curious to connect with his family history, they visit the house and Thomas is welcomed by two aunts that treat him like a long-lost child. As Thomas becomes increasingly enchanted with the place, Beni begins to suspect that something lurks beneath the façade of a quiet country life.

Gremlins

When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

American Badger

A seemingly cold-blooded hitman is assigned to befriend a call girl, but all hell breaks loose when he is assigned to kill her.

It's for Your Own Good

Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends.

John

John tells the story of a young male, a psychiatric hospital patient who witnesses the death of another Black male patient at the hands of white staff. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, this work draws from real life cases of mentally ill Black men who have died as a result of excessive force of the State.

The Trip 6

Unwilling to let his daughter attend a high school trip unsupervised, a protective father and his charismatic mother-in-law show up to crash the party.

Lion, London Zoological Gardens

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the cage. The lion alternates between finding the food on the cage floor and reaching through the bars to swipe at the man, who stays alarmingly close to the beast. In the background are the large rocks and brick wall at the back of the lion's habitat.

Agatha and the Midnight Murders

As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

Bird Thongchai Concert #1/1988 Kaolao ThongChai (Mai-Ngok)

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988

Alligator 2: The Mutation

A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.

Don't Call Me Spinster

After an unexpected breakup throws 35-year-old Patricia for a loop, it's up to her gal pals to show her single life is not all doom and gloom.

Grand-Daddy Day Care

A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.

3

With the help of her husband, a woman tries to get her rapist to own up to what he did to her by kidnapping him. He does not admit to the act, which means the couple must go to greater lengths to get a confession out of him and on record to dispute his alibi.