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Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions. (imdb)

Young Merlin is a teenager, discovering and then learning to master his magical gift. Magister Gaius, King Uther Pendragon's learned court physician to whom he's assigned as humble page, teaches him medicine, coaches his magical self-study, and warns him of Uther's strong aversion to magic. Merlin becomes squire to the noble but imprudent crown prince, Arthur, whose fate is linked with Merlin. (imdb)

Director Philip Kaufman and a stellar cast -- including Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris -- chronicle NASA's early transition from breaking the sound barrier in 1947 to the expeditions of the Mercury astronauts in the 1960s. Richly variegated and surprisingly funny, this film adaptation of a novel by Tom Wolfe brilliantly depicts the personal, political and technological achievements it took for America to get ahead in the space race.

Documentary showing a Britain united in the war effort through a montage of various scenes of daily life... (channel4.com)

A brutal man in the employ of a loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle when a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. But, as his attachment to her grows, he begins to discover the gruesome and tragic secret that made her seek him out. (tiff.net)

A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happen to the Discovery. (imdb)

A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. (imdb)

The ocean contains the history of all humanity and holds all the voices of the earth. Water, the longest border in Chile, holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers, and the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. (International Film Festival Berlin)

A couple plays Scrabble. He's stuck with seven E's and getting nowhere fast, so she decides to do some housework. While she's out of the room, he glances at her letters; she catches him at it and an argument ensues... (imdb)

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. (imdb)