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Marco Bellocchio – I pugni in tasca AKA Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Quote: Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio....
View ArticleFerdinando Merighi – Casa d’appuntamento aka French Sex Murders (1972)
Quote: The French Sex Murders Representing the trashier side of European exploitation, this Dick Randall produced Italian/German giallo is the kind of film that, lacking style, substance or budget,...
View ArticleJust Jaeckin – Histoire d’O AKA The Story of O (1975)
Unfortunately, the world of erotic cinema is quite often left behind as the bastardized stepchild of pornography. As long as they’ve been making films, they’ve been making erotic films. Films intended...
View ArticleNick Deocampo – Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (1987)
Narrated by Deocampo in English, the film documents the anti-Marcos revolution, the life of Oliver, a transvestite, child prostitution, and the filmmaker’s own personal history, including his...
View ArticleRichard Brooks – The Catered Affair (1956)
Plot: Aggie Hurley (Bette Davis) is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane (Debbie Reynolds) is going to have a lavish wedding – even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if...
View ArticleGeorge Dorobantu – Elevator (2008)
Quote: A boy and a girl, both teenagers, want to get away from the world and be alone for a while, so they hide in an abandoned factory on the outskirts. But there they fall in a trap of their own...
View ArticleJaime Humberto Hermosillo – Matinée (1977)
Synopsis (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) Within the framework of a thriller, Hermosillo presents in Matinee a film that is rich in the dreams and ambiguities...
View ArticleHanno Hofer – Telefon In strainatate AKA AKA International Phone Call (1998)
A romanian old man goes downtown to call his son in US from a public phone but…. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/93A40F3F81D32F4/telefon-in-strainatate-1998-.mpg...
View ArticleAkira Kurosawa – Shichinin no samurai AKA Seven Samurai [+Extras] (1954)
SYNOPSIS One of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the...
View ArticleAleksandr Sokurov – Avtomobil nabiraet nadezhnost AKA The Automobile Gains in...
This film was created by Sokurov before or during his VGIK student years for the regional TV of Gorki. He does not consider it a part of his filmography. For its creators, it was just a TV program,...
View ArticleAleksandr Sokurov – Samye Zemnye Zaboty aka Le Piú Terrene Occupazione (1974)
A documentary film about the agricultural development in the region of Gorky: the everyday life in a sovkhoz, the building of a reservoir and of a greenhouse....
View ArticleStephan Geene – After Effect (2007)
Carl Celler (CC) Culture Institute specializes in selling art projects to big companies: Carl Celler, the dynamic boss with an inherent melancholic drift towards failure, feels that his first project...
View ArticleMike Leigh – Naked (1993)
Quote: Mike Leigh’s brilliant and controversial Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter on the lam in London. Rejecting all those who would care for...
View ArticleJack Clayton – The Innocents (1961)
Quote: Jack Clayton’s celebrated screen adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror. Impressionable and repressed governess Miss Giddens...
View ArticleNabil Ayouch – Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue AKA Ali Zoua: Prince of the...
A movie from Morroco about street kids in casablanca. Some voices from IMDB. From Morroco This movie brings back memories of growing up in morocco, although the movie puts you in the front seat of the...
View ArticleMathieu Amalric – La chambre bleue (2014)
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to...
View ArticleElaine Constantine – Northern Soul (2014)
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music....
View ArticleIvan Pyryev – The Idiot (1958)
SYNOPSIS: Upon Prince Myshkin’s return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the...
View ArticleKen Loach – Jimmy’s Hall (2014)
Synopsis: In the 1920s, political activist Jimmy Gralton built a dance hall in rural Ireland. As the hall grew in popularity its free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and...
View ArticleYannis Economides – To Mikro Psari AKA Stratos (2014)
Synopsis By night, Stratos works in a bread factory but by day, he’s a professional hit man. He needs the cash to free Leonidas from prison because the latter once saved his life when he was behind...
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