Kino International Corporation
21) Kippur
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
עברית
Description
Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. We are led on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A tense, shocking thriller that evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema. It opens with the escape of a prisoner from Dartmoor prison, and flashes back to show how a love triangle led him to jail. A perfect companion to Dartmoor is Silent Britain, a feature-length documentary of the golden age of British filmmaking. The first documentary to celebrate the visionary filmmakers and the unsung...
23) Nosferatu
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The original "Dracula" film, based on the story by Bram Stoker. Graf Orlok, known as "Nosferatu" by the villagers, arrives in town on a boat devoid of life, except for rats and disease.
Home use only.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Polish
Description
"Emilia, a Polish widow and her ailing mother manage to eke out a living, and it is while she has a rare moment for her only enjoyment - painting - that she meets Norman, an American soldier involved in war-crime investigations. both their lives have been disrupted by the war. Norman has seen too much to be able to return home easily but he feels he has found a woman who could be his partner for life, although hthey have no common language and can...
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Bambara
Description
A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as...
28) L'âge d'or
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release.
29) Monsieur Hire
Publisher
Pathé! Distribution
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Français
Description
"In a provincial French apartment block, Monsieur Hire endures a solitary life of dulling work as a tailor and vitriolic scorn from his neighbors. Hire's only solace is an occasional night out bowling and the voyeuristic admiration of his neighbor. ... When police discover the nude body of another young woman in a nearby vacant lot, Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation"--Container.
30) Les vampires
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
None
Description
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
31) The black pirate
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as a pirate to recover the ship and its treasure and to rescue a captive princess.
33) Metropolis
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Ukrainian
Description
A deeply heartfelt story set during the early part of the 20th century in the Ukrainian Carpathians, centering on Ivan whose life is marked with sadness. First his brother is killed while saving him from a falling tree. Then his father is murdered, forcing Ivan and his mother to live in poverty. He falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of the man responsible for his father's death. Marichka drowns rescuing a lamb from a river, but Ivan remains...
35) Little fugitive
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"When a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York's nether wonderland, Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful."--Back of container.
36) War requiem
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
World War I Collection Spotlight - Aftermath
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry
Description
The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An 8-year old Sicilian princess is kidnapped by pirates, eventually becoming a slave in Carthage. When she reaches adulthood, she attempts to win her freedom again, whatever the costs. Set in the third century B.C. during the Punic Wars.
39) Der letzte Mann
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
None
Description
The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
40) On our merry way
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A pair of impoverished swing band musicians attempt to change their luck by rigging a talent contest.
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