A group of mental patients who hole up in a deserted Belgian farmhouse, where they cook large quantities of eggs and condemn one of their own in an impromptu court. The actors don't have much need for words when they can dance around, light things on fire, and drip hot wax on each other instead.

A group of mental patients who hole up in a deserted Belgian farmhouse, where they cook large quantities of eggs and condemn one of their own in an impromptu court. The actors don't have much need for words when they can dance around, light things on fire, and drip hot wax on each other instead.

• As boys grow / Medital Arts Productions (16 min., 1957, b&w)
• Last date / Wild Picture Productions (18 min., 1950, b&w)
• What made Sammy speed? / Sid Davis Productions (10 min., 1957, col.)
• A quarter million teenagers / Churchill Films (16 min., 1965, col.)
• Drug attack / Lockheed Aircarft (13 min., ca. 1969, col.)
• Violence and vandalism / Directions Unlimited Film Corporation (14 min, 1972 col.)
• Teeth / Cal Dunn Studio (12 min., ca. 1973, col.)
• Lucy / Perennial Films (12 min., ca. 1975, col.)
• The party's over / The Northen Virgina Edutional Telecommunications Association (14 min., ca. 1977, col.).

• Bonus short: how to treat troubled teens. The day I died / Gordon-Kerckhoff Productions (14 min., ca. 1978, col.)
• Facing reality / Knickerhocker Produtions (11min., 1954, b&w)
• A case for beer / Kansas State Univeristy (10 min., ca. 1970, col.)
• Talking to your teenager about VD / West Glen Films (19 min., ca. 1972, col.)
• Condoms : a responsible option / Landmark Films (10 min., ca. 1985, col.)
• The social seminar (promo) / The National Institute of Mental Health (8 min., 1972, col.)
• Teenage conflict (excerpts) / Family Films (1960, b&w)
• When I's old enough-- Good-bye! (excerpts) / New York State Employment Service (1962, b&w)
• The gang (excerpts) / The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (ca. 1983, col.).

This volume of Classic Educational Shorts, from the A/V Geeks Film Library, presents a varied sampling of films aimed at the awkward adolescents of yesteryear, and reveals the changing hopes and fears of a nation as it moved from the conservative, prosperous postwar years into the social upheaval of the 1960s and beyond.

Jean-Luc Godard's film is a provocative film about faith and desire starring Gerard Depardieu. Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon, it investigates the story of a god inhabiting the body of a man to experience the pleasures of the flesh. The incident is told through the eyes of a publisher, Abraham Klimt, who is interviewing the inhabitants of a Swiss village regarding the strange story of Rachel and Simon Donnadieu.

Nelly, 25, is stuck in a loveless marriage while barely making ends meet. A friend introduces her to the wealthy and much older Arnaud in order to help him write his memoirs. Thus begins a playful, tentative flirtation that is forever threatening to bloom into a romance. But instead Nelly gets involved with Arnaud₂s charming editor. Arnaud and Nelly get stuck in a silent dance of sideways glances and off-hand gestures, the secret choreography of unrequited love.

It follows two wildly impulsive young men who are in love with the same woman. A slapstick love letter to cinema, this fiercely independent wonder laid the groundwork for all the free-spirited filmmakers to follow.

The extraordinary, rough-edged ensemble piece explores black working-class lives with candor and emotional intensity and features a who's who of important artists.

Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, is home to one-eyed artist Michele and alcoholic street performer Alex. It is also their stage as they break up and get back together in increasingly explosive reunions.

A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.

A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.

A pair of beautiful French cousins spend the end of their summer on the Atlantic coast of France, and it isn't long before three eligible men attempt to entice them both into romance.

A young Tahitian couple must deal with the shadow of civilization over thier island paradise.

Jean, a fortyish filmmaker who's struggling to make a feature, is married to the smoothly bourgeois Francoise, but for six years, has been brazenly carrying on an affair with the much younger Catherine, an aspiring actress. Toward Francoise, Jean is merely chilly; toward Catherine, with whom his relationship is vitally carnal, he's both verbally and physically abusive. Unable to stand his outbursts and unwilling to live in fear, Catherine leaves him, but still hopes to sleep with him sometimes.

Jean, a fortyish filmmaker who's struggling to make a feature, is married to the smoothly bourgeois Francoise, but for six years, has been brazenly carrying on an affair with the much younger Catherine, an aspiring actress. Toward Francoise, Jean is merely chilly; toward Catherine, with whom his relationship is vitally carnal, he's both verbally and physically abusive. Unable to stand his outbursts and unwilling to live in fear, Catherine leaves him, but still hopes to sleep with him sometimes.

Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. In a series of unforgettable vignettes, stone-faced Ronald tries his hand as a baseball player, soda jerk, waiter, coxswain, and track star, performing each task with a steady determination but with consistently disastrous results.

Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. In a series of unforgettable vignettes, stone-faced Ronald tries his hand as a baseball player, soda jerk, waiter, coxswain, and track star, performing each task with a steady determination but with consistently disastrous results.

Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, refuses to vote for the Mafia's candidate and consequently loses his job, his wife, and his home. He revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor--an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.

About the adventures of high-society adventurer Kay Hoog and his arch nemesis, a secret criminal organization known as the Spiders. Part 1: The Golden Lake is a treasure hunt that takes both Kay and Spiders mastermind Lio Sha to Peru, where they battle primitive Incas (who capture Lio for a human sacrifice) and each other for a fortune in hidden gold. Part 2: The Diamond Ship is a longer and far more intricate conspiracy involving a hidden criminal underground.

Jean-Claude and Pierrot are two crude drifters who travel the French countryside in pursuit of petty crimes and wanton sex. But when their abduction of a frigid young beautician becomes an exercise in frustration, they find sordid solace in a sex-starved ex-convict. Can two lovable but amoral brutes survive an increasingly strange spree of love, pain, responsibility, car theft, and nymphomania?

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and his effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.