Walter Lassally

The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970s (2023)

In the early 1970s, art historian and curator Stephen Scher turned a camera on the complex ecosystem of Parisian dining. This collage of footage remained perfectly preserved in the can for 50 years; but now, as the filmmaker assembles it into a documentary ...

Crescent Heart (2001)

Eastern Anatolia 1983: Rayna is an American university professor. She travels to Eastern Turkey to research the political situation. As part of her research, she visits a village in the company of a politically involved leftist writer. On the way back, the ...

Silent Film (1996)

Being brought up by deaf parents did not hinder director Malcolm Venville. Instead, it opened his eyes to a whole new world of vivid images. Silent Film is an 11-minute film documenting his parents' romance. ...

The Little Dolphins (1994)

Set in the period between the two world wars in a seaside village in the bay of Amvrakikos. Two children, Petros (8 years old) and Anthoula (7 years old) spend their summer holidays. During a walk they discover in an isolated shack a boy who lives with his ...

The Man Upstairs (1992)

Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship. ...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home. ...

Die Erbschaft (1991)

The Deceivers (1988)

India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the "Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In d ...

The Perfect Murder (1988)

Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. He is assigned to investigate the deadly assault on a Parsi man named Perfect, who is the Secretary of Lala ...

Indian Summer (1987)

Married film director has affair with leading lady. ...

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)

A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked. ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization. ...

Stone Pillow (1985)

A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes that she' ...

Children in the Crossfire (1984)

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each ot ...

The Bengal Lancers! (1984)

30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed. ...

The Bostonians (1984)

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter. ...

The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)

A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with the assistance of Dr. Watson, proceeds to delve int ...

Private School (1983)

Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a wo ...

Heat and Dust (1983)

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life. ...

The Mysterious Stranger (1982)

The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells ...

Tuxedo Warrior (1982)

A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities. ...

Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)

Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nu ...

Angels of Iron (1981)

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old ...

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1981)

A Confederate soldier (Pat Hingle) tells boys to kill a man (Edward Herrmann), whose ghost comes back. Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers. ...

The Pilot (1980)

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it. ...

The Blood of Hussain (1980)

A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, h ...

Gauguin the Savage (1980)

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti. ...

The Price of Survival (1980)

Jefferson City, Missouri: Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun and shoots five managers ...

Something Short of Paradise (1979)

A young couple in New York are having problems with their relationship. ...

Too Far to Go (1979)

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard a ...

The Woman Across the Way (1978)

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman in ...

The Great Bank Hoax (1978)

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves. ...

Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)

A legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for years; the collection's fame attracts a group of art lovers and fortune seekers who converge simultaneously on the palace. ...

The Clown (1976)

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a ...

Attempted Flight (1976)

The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at ...

Autobiography of a Princess (1975)

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India. ...

The Wild Party (1975)

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career. ...

Wsp (1974)

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how the particular characteristics of friction are used on a new braking system to give greater control and greater safety when driving. ...

Visions of Eight (1973)

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment ...

Malachi's Cove (1973)

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work. ...

Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973)

An adopted teen runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some ver ...

To Kill a Clown (1972)

A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper. ...

Savages (1972)

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of peo ...

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972)

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective. ...

Can Horses Sing? (1971)

Elizabeth Sussex's exquisite documentary about a rural Scottish school, edited by Gladwell. ...

Something for Everyone (1970)

In post-war Austria, an opportunistic young man begins working as a footman to a widowed countess and uses his sexual talents to better his station in life. ...

Twinky (1970)

A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the couple get married and move to America, the trouble (and fun) really begins. ...

The Adding Machine (1969)

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities. ...

3 Into 2 Won't Go (1969)

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he ...

Joanna (1968)

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated. ...

Oedipus the King (1968)

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods. ...

Assignment Skybolt (1968)

An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out! ...

The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselve ...

Open Letter (1967)

Thirty-year-old lower middle class Dimitris, faint-hearted and not particularly ambitious, is ready to jump at the opportunity that will get him handsomely provided. He wavers between yesterday, the German occupation nightmare and his love debut with a nei ...

In the Labyrinth (1967)

"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and 70 mm film projected simultaneously on multiple screens. A film without commentary in which multiple image ...

Zorba the Greek (1964)

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. ...

Psyche 59 (1964)

An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind. ...

The Peaches (1964)

A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion. ...

Tom Jones (1963)

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love? ...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridic ...

Electra (1962)

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge. ...

Lisa and the Other Woman (1961)

A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly like her is brought to him. ...

A Taste of Honey (1961)

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual. ...

Let My People Go (1961)

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at apartheid in South Africa and the Sharpville massacre. ...

Alice in the Navy (1961)

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father! ...

Madalena (1960)

Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival ...

Beat Girl (1960)

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship. ...

Our Last Spring (1960)

The lives of two male Greek teens and the young daughter of the British Ambassador in Greece are turned upside down when the best friend of a teenage gang leader dies. Meanwhile, a love triangle is developed between the three characters. ...

Midsummer Music (1960)

A celebration of the welcome, the fun and the colour awaiting visitors at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. ...

Day Shall Dawn (1959)

Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal. ...

We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London. ...

Refuge England (1959)

Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee. ...

Alone with the Monsters (1958)

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth. ...

A Matter of Dignity (1958)

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances. ...

Every Day Except Christmas (1957)

A short documentary filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship ...

Bernard Shaw (1957)

George Bernard Shaw's illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners. ...

A Girl in Black (1956)

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black? ...

Momma Don't Allow (1956)

A Free Cinema short documenting a night at the Wood Green Jazz Club, observing youth culture, music, and social dynamics through an unobtrusive, non-narrated style. ...

Together (1956)

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship. ...

Brighton Story (1955)

A ghost of Brighton's Regency past returns to explore his old haunts in a colourful yarn set in 1950s Sussex-by-the-Sea. ...

Foot and Mouth (1955)

Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market. ...

Henry (1955)

Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). ...

Green and Pleasant Land (1955)

An appeal on behalf of the NSPCC. ...

The Passing Stranger (1954)

The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder. ...

Bow Bells (1954)

A montage of scenes from East End life set to a soundtrack of music hall songs with appropriate lyrics. ...

Thursday's Children (1954)

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and game ...

Another Sky (1954)

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa. ...

Simon (1954)

Story of Simon, the odd boy out and how he is thwarted in his attempts to be one of "the gang". ...

The Pleasure Garden (1953)

People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities. ...

Power Signal Lineman (1953)

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move. ...

Sunday by the Sea (1953)

London families spend a day at Southend-on-Sea. ...

Wakefield Express (1952)

Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing. ...

Three Installations (1952)

Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations. ...

Festival (1951)

Follows a young boy's adventures at the Festival of Britain, after he acquires one of the free passes sent out attached to a balloon. ...

Every Five Minutes (1951)

Four examples of the kind of carelessness that leads to fires in this country frequently. ...

Forward a Century (1951)

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the Festival. ...

Night and the City (1950)

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan. ...

After Before (2017)

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the charact ...

Before Midnight (2013)

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When ...

Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers (2006)

No overview. ...

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978)

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934. ...

Right to Work March (1972)

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London. ...