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Eugène Green – Le fils de Joseph AKA Son of Joseph (2016)
A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father, Mathieu Amalric and Fabrizio...
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Bert Williams – The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (1965)
An undercover agent is sent to infiltrate bootleggers in the Florida Everglades, but winds up lost in the swamps and stuck in a decrepit hotel with a few of peculiar inhabitants. What starts off like...
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Shion Sono – Ai no mukidashi AKA Love Exposure (2008)
Quote: Three emotionally abused people from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yuu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking erotic photographs of women in...
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Nadia Haggar – Omnibus: Eye of the Storm: Profile of Ridley Scott (1993)
Broadcast: BBC1 on 13th October 1992 Summary: Documentary profile of film director Ridley Scott. The programme traces Scott’s career from West Hartlepool Art School to the Royal College of Art to the...
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Mario Mattoli – Un turco napoletano AKA Neapolitan Turk [+Extra] (1953)
Based on a stage play by Eduardo Scarpetta, Il Turco Napoletano is retooled into a vehicle for Italian comedian Toto. The star plays a girl-happy dolt who assumes the identity of a missing Turkish...
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Lav Diaz – Ang babaeng humayo aka The Woman Who Left (2016)
Synopsis After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful...
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Diane Bertrand – L’annulaire AKA The Ring Finger (2005)
Quote: Iris is twenty years old and works on the assembly line of a fizzy drink factory. One day, she loses the tip of her ring finger in an industrial injury, leading her to quit her job and move to...
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Carla Simón – Estiu 1993 AKA Verano 1993 AKA Summer 1993 (2017)
Synopsis A six years old girl, faces the first summer with her new adoptive family. A biographical piece, an early coming of age drama about a girl who learns to fit in a new rural world while coping...
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Abraham Polonsky – Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
Quote: After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer/director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. The title character, played by Robert Blake, is...
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Ildikó Enyedi – Teströl és lélekröl AKA On Body and Soul (2017)
SYNOPSIS Two introverted people, both workers at an abattoir, find out by chance that they share the same dream every night. At first, they are puzzled and incredulous, but as they begin to accept...
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Helmut Käutner – Schwarzer Kies AKA Black Gravel (1961)
Quote: In 1960, in a rural part of West Germany, an American military base is set up in a small village of 250 inhabitants. Now, 6000 soldiers are living in the region, and although no one really...
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Su Friedrich – I Cannot Tell You How I Feel (2016)
Su Friedrich continues her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother plays the lead, kicking and protesting against being taken to an “independent living” facility. Friedrich...
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François Truffaut – Les Mistons AKA The Brats (1957)
Synopsis The story takes place in provincial France, where a group of young boys are infatuated with a beautiful young woman. Jealous of her passionate affair, they conspire to make mischief for the...
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Otto Preminger – Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Quote: Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a...
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Bertrand Tavernier – Voyage à travers le cinéma français AKA My Journey...
Synopsis wrote: Bertrand Tavernier’s personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures. Embark on an...
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Virginie Despentes & Coralie – Baise-moi AKA Fuck me (2000)
Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men – and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. Baise-moi (Fuck Me)...
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Michael Haneke – Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte AKA The...
Quote: Ever wonder about the ancestors of the murderous jocks in Funny Games? In the Palme d’Or-winning The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke time travels to rural Germany on the cusp of WWI to find the...
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Béla Tarr – Sátántangó AKA Satan’s Tango (1994)
Quote: In a small, dilapidated village in 1990s Hungary, life has come to a virtual stand-still. The Autumn rains have started. A few of the villagers expect to receive a large cash payment that...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko & Yuliya Solntseva – Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i...
Describes the Russian attack against the Germans, which drove them away from the Dneiper river, and finally out of Ukraine. http://nitroflare.com/view/C826AAAEB23553E/Victory_in_Soviet_Ukraine.mkv...
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Eliza Hittman – Beach Rats (2017)
Quote: An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a...
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