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Hamid Nematollah – Boutique (2003)
Hamid Nematollah’s compelling drama “stakes out a new path for Iranian cinema” (Variety) as it exposes key problems plaguing modern-day Tehran. Johan is a gentle and thoughtful young man who works as...
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William Tannen – Flashpoint (1984)
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info...
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Dejan Zecevic – T.T. Sindrom (2002)
Several people get locked in a turkish bath at night, being hunted by a brutal serial killer, who seems to be seized with the T.T. Syndrome, a brain malady that leads to painful sociopathy....
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Nicholas Jacobs – The Refrigerator (1992)
Quote: When Steven and Eileen moved to New York, they couldn’t believe their luck, a one bedroom apartment for only $200 a month! There had to be something wrong…there was. The Refrigerator, an...
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Alberto Cavallone – Quickly, spari e baci a colazione (1971)
QUICKLY, SPARI E BACI A COLAZIONE (1967) Also known as: “Quickly, Shoot and Kiss Before Dinner.” Extremely rare war thriller/ comedy, which seems to take place in South America. Starring Antonio...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Moetsukita chizu aka The Man Without a Map (1968)
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective’s own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching. (imdb.com)...
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Josef von Sternberg & Jules Furthman – Jet Pilot (1957)
John Wayne and Janet Leigh star in this military romance. Anna, Russian MIG pilot, escapes the USSR and lands on a US Air Force base in Alaska. There she meets Colonel Shannon, and after he debriefs...
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L. Krishnan – Raden mas (1960)
Quote: Between the end of the Second World War and the early 1960s, the Cathay Organization and Shaw Brothers produced a string of films in Singapore, that were made for the Malay-speaking audience in...
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Philip Leacock – The War Lover (1962)
Steve McQueen is Buzz Rickson, a B17 pilot during WWII. Rickson’s brashness serves him well during wartime, but he finds that he feels out of place during everyday civilian life. His more...
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Claire Denis – Les salauds aka Bastards (2013)
Plot / Synopsis Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate – her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her...
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Arnold Laven – The Rack (1956)
Wounded and weakened in Korean prison camps, GIs descend from the plane that returned them to U.S. soil. It is a time of tearful family reunions. A time of uncertainty about how to help traumatized...
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Satoshi Miki – Adrift in Tokyo aka Tenten (2007)
Review Satoshi Miki’s Adrift in Tokyo is a difficult film to categorize. Is it a road movie? A city film? A buddy movie? A comedy? A drama? The short answer is: yes. It’s each of these things, and...
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Mark Rydell – Cinderella Liberty (1973)
This charming tough-love romance is yet more evidence why the early 1970s is considered one of the most creative times in Hollywood. Basically a story about a link-up between a sailor and a pool hall...
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Emir Kusturica – Sjecas Li Se, Dolly Bell ? aka Do you remember, Dolly Bell ?...
IMDB: A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young prostitute...
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Roberto Rossellini – Germania, anno zero aka Germany Year Zero (1948)
In the third and final film of Rossellini’s WWII trilogy, the director shifts his focus from his native Italy to the bombed-out ruins of Berlin, where 12-year-old Edmund Koehler struggles for...
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William Berke – Deputy Marshal (1949)
ynopsis: A few minutes before he is killed by an unseen gunman using a split-butt rifle, in a saloon in Tumult, Wyoming, railway employee Harley Masters (Wheaton Chambers) gives a secret map to Deputy...
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Alexander Oey – Zen and War (2009)
Synopsis Explores how Zen Buddhist monks actively got involved in the Second World War and their position now regarding that participation. “Zen and War” features Shodo Harada Roshi and other...
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Jonathan Lee – Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011)
Synopsis: Paul Goodman, whose best-selling ‘Growing Up Absurd’ made him the philosopher of the New Left in the 1960s, was also a brilliant poet, out queer (and family man) in the 1940s, radical...
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Lawrence Schiller – The Executioner’s Song (1982)
Based on the true story of murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, spanning the last nine months of his life (May 1976-January 1977) in which at age 35, after being released for serving a long prison term in Utah...
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Michael Curtiz – The Scarlet Hour (1956)
Pauline ‘Paulie’ Nevins is cheating on her husband Ralph Nevins, a land developer, with his sales manager E.V. ‘Marsh’ Marshall. When Paulie and Marsh meet up for a secret rendez-vous in a lovers’...
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