Catlow (1971)

An intimate look at the career of David Lean, this 1971 documentary by Thomas Craven features an extensive interview with the director, who discusses his work and his approach to filmmaking.

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

The trials of the British aristocratic Bellamy family and their household staff.

A frustrated musician makes a career out of his wife's beautiful body.

A degenerate gambler, unable to come up with the cash necessary for a high stakes gin rummy game, bets his nubile daughter. And loses.

In 'Iran: the Land of Religions' (alternative tiotle), made for the Ministry of Art and Culture, Vienna-trained documentarian Manuchehr Tayyab focused on the coexistence of major religious traditions in Iran: Shiism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Judaism (notably, no mention of Bahaism) – which he rendered with a smoothly gliding camera, deft realism and glorious colour, and without voice-over narration.

Ben Webster was one of the legendary "big three" tenor sax players of jazz history along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. From Ben's early days honing his style in the great bands of Duke Ellington, Bennie Moten and others, to later years following his move to Europe in the 1960s, his playing improved with age as the passion of his Kansas City Swing became enriched with a more mature and tender approach to melody.

The film Herschell Gordon Lewis denied ever having made. A hardcore "sex education" film exposing the lovemaking habits of contemporary black couples in Chicago through a series of amusing and creative vignettes.