Clik here to view.
Bigas Luna – Tatuaje, primera aventura de Pepe Carvalho AKA Tattoo, the First...
Summary from filmaffinity: On a beach in Barcelona, the body of a young man is discovered. His face eaten by fish, tattooed on his arm is the phrase: “I was born to revolutionize hell”. So begins a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hsiao-hsien Hou – Flowers of Shanghai AKA Hai shang hua (1998)
SYNOPSIS Shanghai, the 1880s, four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (the madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. The men gather around...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Werner Herzog – Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht AKA Nosferatu the Vampyre...
Quote: Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror. Quote: When people bemoan what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amir Naderi – Davandeh AKA The Runner (1984)
Quote: Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school....
View ArticleClik here to view.
René Clair – Le Million (1931)
Synopsis A penniless artist, Michel, is pursued by creditors when he discovers he has won the million florin lottery. He realises that he left the winning lottery ticket in his jacket, which he gave...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Francesco Rosi – La Tregua AKA The Truce (1997)
Based on Primo’s account of his liberation from Auschwitz and long journey home through a Europe caught between war and peace. The truce is not only an account of hardship and the rediscovering of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anthony Asquith & A.V. Bramble – Shooting Stars (1927)
Quote: Before the constipated bloat and stagger of his 40s and 50s theatrical adaptations, Anthony Asquith was a lively and original maker of silent films. A Cottage on Dartmoor is already celebrated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kihachi Okamoto – Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu AKA The Elegant Life Of...
Quote: Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás – La mujer de los perros AKA Dog Lady (2015)
An existentialist fable about a woman who lives with a pack of dogs on the very edge of the populated world, with minimal contact with other people. The seasons come and go. On life and survival, love...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kihachi Okamoto – Nikudan aka The Human Bullet (1968)
Quote: The summer of 1945. As a “human bullet” of the Kamikaze Unit, 21-year-old “he” is inside a drum with a torpedo. While he waits, he looks back on a short adolescence, reminiscing on the harsh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ishmael Bernal – Himala aka Miracle (1982)
Himala is a landmark 1982 film directed by Ishmael Bernal. It tells the story of a young woman in a small town in the Philippines who claims to have seen an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mario O’Hara – Tatlong taong walang Diyos aka Three Godless Years (1976)
Quote: What makes Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (Three Years without God), about the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II, such a great film? O’Hara’s style is thrillingly simple:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yong-Kyun Bae – Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun AKA Why Has Bodhi-Dharma...
Synopsis: Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment – Hyegok...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wings Hauser – Skins AKA Gang Boys (1994)
Linda Blair’s gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jon Jost – Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
Quote: Somewhere along a desolate highway in Western Montana where the scorched grass burns brown and cotton-ball clouds dissolve into an endless ocean of white, a decrepit old pick-up truck speeds...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ron Kelly – King of the Grizzlies (1970)
Quote: Moki (John Yesno) is the Indian foreman at a ranch owned by The Colonel (Chris Higgins). He watches as a baby grizzly bear becomes his playful friend before going off on his own. Years later,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paul Verhoeven – Niets bijzonders AKA Nothing Special (1961)
Quote: A man is thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend, while checking out a gorgeous woman in a bar. http://nitroflare.com/view/BE795B88D47A8BF/Niets_bijzonders_%281961%29.mkv...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ruben Östlund – Play (2011)
Quote: Based on a real Swedish petty-crime wave, Play troubles the waters of any smugly held view, liberal or conservative, about how society should regard and handle its own rogue elements — a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sergei M. Eisenstein – Bronenosets Potyomkin aka The battleship Potemkin (1925)
Marie Seton wrote: When he made Potemkin in 1925, Sergei Eisenstein was not only a man with his total personality dedicated to creative work — albeit a creative work aimed at destroying all orthodox...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teuvo Tulio – Rikollinen nainen AKA A Woman of Crime [+Extras] (1952)
Synopsis: Pathological, triggered by the unbridled desire to take the story of jealousy towards the film noirs, the film shades of black crime, when Riitta decide to carve adulterous sister, imagining...
View Article