Raoul Ruiz – La Ville des pirates AKA City of Pirates (1984)
City of Pirates (La Ville des pirates, France/Portugal, 1983) Raúl Ruiz’s City of Pirates is (de)composed under the sign of Surrealism, with its trust in ecstasy, scandal, the call of the wild,...
View ArticleHenry Hathaway – Souls at Sea (1937)
Gary Cooper and George Raft play a couple of seafaring buddies in this moral adventure saga set during the 1840s, when the slave-trade had been outlawed by the British Empire but was still a reality...
View ArticleHellmuth Costard – Fußball wie noch nie AKA Soccer As Never Before (1971)
The sun shone on Old Trafford on 12th September 1970 as Manchester United beat Coventry 2:0 in a league match. It was not an important victory; that season Man Utd would only be also-rans in the race...
View ArticleLars von Trier – Europa AKA Zentropa [+Extras] (1991)
Europa (retitled Zentropa for the American release) is an hallucinatory Danish film set in postwar Germany. Jean-Marc Barr plays a young German who aspires for a job as a street conductor. But this is...
View ArticleYakov Protazanov – Don Diego i Pelageya aka Don Diego and Pelageya (1928)
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View ArticleElia Kazan – America, America (1963)
Quote: One of the greatest movies about immigrant experience of coming to America is Elia Kazan’s epic journey America, America based on the stories of his uncle coming from Turkey to the United...
View ArticleNoribumi Suzuki –Ôoku jûhakkei AKA Dolls of the Shogun’s Harem (1986)
Plot Summary A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun one of the women from his brothers harem became pregnant, but she escaped. The new Shogun...
View ArticleTengiz Abuladze – Natvris khe aka The Wishing Tree (1976)
Clarke Fountain @ allmovie wrote: Poetry, vivid imagery and allegory mark the nearly two-dozen episodes of this epic tale about human life and its troubles, set in the Georgian village of Kachetien...
View ArticleTengiz Abuladze – Monanieba aka Repetance (1987)
synopsis Repentance (Pokayaniye) features Avtandil Makharadze in a dual role. As Georgian mayor Varlam Aravidze, Makharadze is a strutting, arbitrarily cruel dictator, something of a composite Stalin...
View ArticleYakov Segel – Inoplanetyanka AKA Extraterrestrial Girl (1984)
Extraterrestrial Girl visited Earth. Inventor Blinkov in love with her. His love is awakened in her new emotions and feelings. She realized that Blinkov can not live in a different world. And she...
View ArticleYakov Protazanov – Bespridannitsa AKA The bride without a dowry (1937)
From allmovie: Filmed in 1937 (in fact: 1936), the Russian film “Without Dowry” was released in America in 1946, one year after the death of its director, Yakov Protazanov. Produced on a far-less epic...
View ArticleYakov Protazanov – Otets Sergiy AKA Father Sergius (1917)
One of the few pre-Revolution Russian feature films to survive, Father Sergius is an elaborate picturization of a Tolstoy novel. Ivan Mozzhukin plays a young, libertine officer who thinks nothing of...
View ArticleDziga Vertov – Kazakhstan – Frontu! (Тебе Фронт! ) AKA Tebe Front! (1942)
The film was shot in 1942 in Kazakhstan. Unfortunately the image and sound quality is not so good. http://keep2s.cc/file/1bb98bf6a284e/Dziga.Vertov.Tebe.Front%21%281942%29.avi...
View ArticleJán Lacko – Skalni v ofsajde aka Soccer Fans (1960)
Three soccer fans are determined to do literally anything to get to the soccer match between Czechoslovakia and the famous representation team of Brazil. Reaching their goal to see the dream match...
View ArticleRay Enright – I’ve Got Your Number (1934)
Plot: The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she...
View ArticleRay Enright – Havana Widows (1933)
The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell star as Mae and Sadie, a couple of hard-boiled dames who support...
View ArticleJoel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Synopsis INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow,...
View ArticleArnaud Desplechin – Jimmy P. (2013)
At the end of World War II, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas – an institution specializing in mental illness. Jimmy...
View ArticleAlexander Payne – Nebraska (2013)
Synopsis A poor old man living in Montana escapes repeatedly from his house to go to Nebraska to collect a sweepstakes prize he thinks he has won. Frustrated by his increasing dementia, his family...
View ArticleFederico Fellini – Le Notti di Cabiria AKA Nights of Cabiria [+Extras] (1957)
Plot Synopsis from criterionco.com Tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in the seediest sections of Rome. Nights of Cabiria Essay by Federico Fellini The subject of loneliness...
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