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12:08 east of Bucharest (2006)
A fost sau n-a fost?
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Starring: Mircea Andreescu, Teo Corban
Sixteen years after the Romanian revolution, guests on a news program remember how they stormed their town hall calling "down with Ceausescu." Or did they?
[DVD]

      
A matter of dignity (1957)
To teleutaio psemma
Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis
Starring: Ellie Lambetti, Michalis Nikolinakos
A girl from a family on the verge of bankruptcy is forced to marry a boring Greek-American millionaire whom she despises.
[VHS ]

      
Black cat, white cat (1998)
Crna macka, beli macor
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Bajram Severdzan, Srdan Todorovic
A gangster agrees to erase a small-time hustler's debt in exchange for marrying his sister.
[VHS ]

      
Closely watched trains (1966)
Ostre sledované vlaky
Director: Jiri Menzel
Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Josef Samr
An apprentice at a remote Czech railway station is more preoccupied with losing his virginity than the German occupation during WW II.
[VHS ]

      
Grbavica: The land of my dreams (2006)
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Starring: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
[DVD]

      
Innocence unprotected (1968)
Nevinost bez zastite
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Starring: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic
A famous Serbian athlete makes a feature film during Belgrade's Nazi occupation and consequently has problems after the liberation.
[VHS ]

      
Iphigenia (1977)
Ifigeneia
Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis
Starring: Irene Pappas, Tatiana Papamoschou
King Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the angry gods.
[DVD]

      
Kontroll (2003)
Director: Nimrod Antal
Starring: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi
A handsome hero, a mysterious woman, and a nasty killer collide in the Budapest subway system.
[DVD]

      
Little Otik (2000)
Otesánek
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Starring: Jan Hartl, Veronika Zilková
A man gives his wife a carved tree stump that resembles a baby to console her after a miscarriage, and it becomes a real baby with a monstrous appetite.
[DVD]

      
No man's land (2001)
Director: Danis Tanovic
Starring: Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric
Two soldiers from opposite sides in the Bosnia and Herzegovina war become trapped in no man's land.
[DVD]

      
The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer (2003)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Starring: Monika Belo-Cabanov, Jan Zacek
Svankmajer uses a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action to create a dreamlike universe.
[DVD]

      
The firemen's ball (1967)
Horí, má panenko
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Josef Sebanek, Jan Vostrcil
Arrangements for a small town's annual fireman's ball go wrong at every turn.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
The loves of a blonde (1965)
Lásky jedné plavovlásky
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt
A teen who works in a shoe factory follows a crush to Prague and upends his family's life.
[VHS ]

      
The red and the white (1967)
Csillagosok, katonák
Director: Miklos Jancso
Starring: Andras Kozak, Tibor Molnar
In 1918, Hungarian Communists aid the Russian Reds in an arbitrary and chaotic fight against the counter-revolutionary Whites.
[DVD]

      
Time of the gypsies (1988)
Dom za vesanje
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic
A teen with telekinetic gifts leaves his grandmother and girlfriend to join a flamboyant criminal.
[VHS ]

      
Ulyssey's gaze (1995)
To vlemma tou Odyssea
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Starring: Erland Josephson, Harvey Keitel
A Greek-American film director travels the Balkans during the war in the 1990s.
[DVD]

      
Underground (1995)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski
A black marketer who smuggles arms to Yugoslav partisans in WW II neglects to tell the workers that the war is over, and 50 years later, they emerge to find that he is right: war still rages.
[VHS ]

      
When father was away on a business trip (1985)
Otac na sluzbenom putu
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Moreno D'E Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic
In 1950s Sarajevo, a family tries to get along after the father is sent to a labor camp for philandering with the girlfriend of a Communist party official.
[VHS ]



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