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- DirectorT.S. NagabharanaStarsAnand PericharanG.K. Govinda RaoB.S. AcharHonnarathi, a Brahmin girl, remains unmarried even after attaining puberty. When people consider her a disgrace to the community, her parents abandon her, after which she faces several challenges.
- DirectorGovindan AravindanStarsBharat GopyJalajaV.K. SriramanBesides a long glittering river, some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some bicycles, and an old man with a philosopher's dignity, putting on white paste. Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - onto another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity. For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head.
- DirectorMuzaffar AliStarsFarooq ShaikhSmita PatilGeeta KakIn order to improve their lifestyle, Lucknow based Ghulam Hussain decides to re-locate to Bombay, leaving his ailing mother and wife, Khairun, behind. He arrives in Bombay, and looks up his close friend, Lalulal Tiwari, who gets him a job cleaning taxis. Ghulam subsequently learns how to drive, and is hired to drive a taxi. Despite of his best efforts he is unable to save enough money to visit Lucknow. Lalulal has problems of his own, despite of being settled in Bombay for several years; having a sweetheart, Yashodra, he is unable to even rent a decent apartment, and lives in a shanty tenement, which is slated to be demolished by the Bombay Municipal Corporation. Will Lalulal and Ghulam be able to improve their lives or will they be caught up in just surviving on a day to day basis?
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsRomy SchneiderClaude BrasseurBruno CremerA simple story about simple people. A 38 year old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). Their daily life and of their friends, who have the same typical problems.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsUgo TognazziMichel SerraultClaire MaurierThe manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
- DirectorTarun MajumdarStarsLaxmi AdhikariShukla BandyopadhyaySwapna BandyopadhyayA village in Bengal reels under the shock of witnessing a community feeling turn quickly into a mob mentality and the effects it has on the people.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew ZapasiewiczEwa DalkowskaAndrzej SewerynA famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.
- DirectorJosef RödlStarsFritz BinnerElfriede BleisteinerMichael EichenseerAlbert is being released from a psychatric hospital and goes back to his bavarian hometown. But the people don't accept him and they begin to treat him. The only way out for Albert is suicide.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsJózsef MadarasFerenc BácsFerenc FábiánA new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but as he is not at all well-liked, he meets quite an amount of resistance and cannot put across his will.
- DirectorAstrid Henning-JensenStarsAnn-Mari Max HansenHelle HertzLone KellermanThe story follows a group of women in a maternity ward for women with complicated pregnancies. The women have different ages and background, but in spite of their differences they develop a special bond. They go through ups and downs together, while each of them wait for their children to be born, with both hope and fear.
- DirectorEloy de la IglesiaStarsJosé SacristánMaría Luisa San JoséJosé Luis AlonsoSex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredHenning KristiansenStarsKim JensenAllan OlsenHelle NielsenSteffen is picnicking with his girlfriend, daughter of a rich businessman, when he meets Charly - trying to steal Steffen's moped. Later they end up as BFFs despite the differences.
- DirectorEagle PennellStarsLou PerrymanSonny Carl DavisDoris HargraveLloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has developed a new invention that he's sure will finally lead to the success he and Frank have been chasing their whole lives. Their golden ticket is a combination mop, vacuum cleaner and floor polisher, but before prosperity arrives, reality intrudes on their plans.