Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.

Hidden in America Trailer (1996)

01 December 1996

Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor.

Susie Q Trailer (1996)

30 September 1996

The ghost of a girl who died in 1955 appears to a troubled teen living in her old house.

Beautiful Funerals Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.

Independence Day Trailer (1996)

02 July 1996

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities.

El cuerno, el ancho y el sancho Trailer (1996)

31 December 1996

A young man makes ends meet by selling camotes in his small providence town, has zero luck getting with the ladies, and is too broke to afford the hookers of the town.

The Eighteenth Trailer (1996)

24 May 1996

Set on May 18, 1993—the day on which Denmark voted to join the European Union, just a few months after they'd voted not to do so—the film follows eight or so disparate Danes (an escaped mental patient, a newly-famous singer, a business executive, and their assorted families and cohorts) as they unwittingly alter one another's lives, for better and for worse.

Hararna fångar och steker jägaren Trailer (1996)

04 February 1996

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

Makamandag na Bango Trailer (1996)

14 February 1996

Carla's (Rita Magdalena) sister commits suicide. Devastated, she decides to go to the province.. where she wreaks havoc among the men.

Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon Trailer (1996)

17 November 1996

Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster.

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