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Howard Hawks – The Big Sleep (1946)
Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of...
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Ki-duk Kim – Shilje sanghwang AKA Real Fiction (2000)
Quote: An unstable artist (Ju Jin-mo) is sent over the edge during a walk in the park when a woman with a video camera (Kim Jin-ah) begins following him. Flying into a murderous rage, the artist...
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Annelise Meineche – Sangen om den røde rubin AKA The Song of the Red Ruby (1970)
A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal. To earn money for his tuition, he takes a job as...
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Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán – Dólares de arena AKA Sand Dollars (2014)
An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an...
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Dan Wolman – Floch (1972)
From imdb: I believe Hanoch Levin is Israel’s only great playwright. He’s best known for stark, stylized black humor about petty people who are unaware of their own pettiness. It’s a little as if...
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Zhangke Jia – Shan he gu ren AKA Mountains May Depart (2015)
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/7696EC0C47AD902/Mountains.May.Depart.2015.HD720P.X264.AAC.mkv...
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Woody Allen – Irrational Man (2015)
Quote: A new philosophy professor arrives on a small town campus near Newport, Rhode Island. His name, Abe Lucas. His reputation : bad. Abe is said to be a womanizer and an alcoholic. But what people...
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Zhao Liang – Bei xi mo shou AKA Behemoth (2015)
Quote: Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave...
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Vsevolod Pudovkin – Mat AKA Mother (1926)
The son of a worthless alcoholic father and a hardworking mother leads an illegal strike during the failed 1905 uprising. In an attempt to save her son, the mother inadvertently gives him away to the...
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François Truffaut – La peau douce AKA The Soft Skin (1964)
Quote: Many of François Truffaut’s film have elements of the autobiographical and The Soft Skin is no exception. Written in collaboration with Jean-Louis Richard, the French director in renowned for...
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Gian Carlo Menotti – The Medium (1951)
This is the 1951 film of Menotti’s opera about a fake medium who starts to feel real supernatural presences. Beautifully filmed and sung (in English)...
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Raoul Ruiz – Les Trois couronnes du matelot AKA Three Crowns of the Sailor...
Quote: In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in...
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Spike Lee – Chi-Raq (2015)
Storyline After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago’s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature...
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Takashi Miike – Kaze ni tatsu raion AKA The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
(from Japanese Film Festival) Lion Standing in the Wind is based on a real story and chronicles the inspirational life of Dr Koichiro Shimada who sets off to Kenya to serve as a medical doctor. In a...
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Jean-Marie Straub – L’aquarium et la nation (2015)
This is a reading from Les noyers de l’Altenburg (The walnut trees of Altenburg) by André Malraux, recited by Aimé Agnel (author of books on Ford and Hitchcock and matters psychological). There are...
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Christian Carion – Joyeux Noël AKA Merry Christmas (2005)
STORYLINE: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and...
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Tod Browning – The Devil-Doll (1936)
Plot: Banker Paul Lavond makes an escape from Devil’s Island where he was sentenced for seventeen years after being framed by his three partners. His fellow escapee Marcel takes him to meet his wife...
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Bernard Émond – Le Journal D’un Vieil Homme AKA The Diary of an Old Man (2015)
Based on Chekhov’s revered novella, The Diary of an Old Man centers on a terminally ill emeritus professor of medicine who realizes how powerless he is to cure the unhappiness of his adopted daughter,...
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Mikkel Nørgaard – Klovn Forever AKA Klown Forever (2015)
Quote: Frank and Casper’s friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow...
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D.W. Griffith – The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ (1914)
D.W. Griffith’s silent psychological drama based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” tells the story of a depressed young man who murders the cruel uncle who prevented his marriage to his...
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