Jean-Luc Godard – Week End AKA Weekend [+Extras] (1967)
SYNOPSIS The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this raucous, biting satire. A nasty, scheming bourgeois Parisian couple embarks on a...
View ArticleEva Ionesco – My Little Princess (2011)
Hannah and Violetta are an odd couple: an elusive mother and a little girl in search of maternal love, a fanciful artist and her reluctant model. When Hannah asks Violetta if she would like to be her...
View ArticleKana Matsumoto – Mazâ wôtâ aka Mother Water (2010)
Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan’s ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of water. In this tranquil setting, three women join the...
View ArticleFrançois Truffaut – L’Enfant Sauvage aka The Wild Child (1970)
Quote: A movie like this can be viewed in two main ways: a human example of a scientific study (with on screen replications of the study, and a moral conclusion); or a lesson in learning for the...
View ArticleSteno – Febbre da cavallo (1976)
Imdb User Reviews thanks tv! 13 June 2003 | by Mario Pio (Venezia, Italy) When in the 1976 “Febbre da cavallo” exit in cinema not so much people went to see it. The status of “cult” movie starts from...
View ArticleBenjamin Christensen – Häxan (1922)
“Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen’s obsession with bizarre lighting effects reached its apotheosis with his 1920 masterpiece Witchcraft Through the Ages. Beginning in a deceptively sedate fashion...
View ArticleCarlos Saura – Elisa, vida mia aka Elisa, My Lover (1977)
In ELISA, VIDA MIA, Fernando Rey stars as Luis, a contemplative writer, now in his sixties, who years ago moved to an isolated cottage in rural Spain to escape everything he hates about modern life....
View ArticleIsabel Coixet – Mi vida sin mí AKA My Life Without Me (2003)
Description: Ann, 23 years old, lives a modest life with her two kids and her husband in a trailer in her mother’s garden. Her life takes a dramatic turn, when her doctor tells her that she has...
View ArticleFred Zinnemann – The Member of the Wedding (1952)
Quote: A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood...
View ArticleJunya Sato – Ningen no shômei AKA Proof of the Man (1977)
Synopsis: When an American tourist named Jonny Hayward mysterious dies while on vacation in Tokyo. A Japanese detective named Munesue goes to New York City looking for a wanted man who fled Japan who...
View ArticleMichael Winterbottom – In This World (2002)
A plunge into the world of asylum-seekers driven from their homes by Middle East instability, In This World takes a documentary-like (and, when the guerrilla filmmaking runs into real bullets, just...
View ArticleJuan Luis Buñuel & Claude Chabrol – Fantômas (1980)
Quote: This miniseries based on the Fantomas novels of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, takes the Fantomas character back to his sinister roots. After the comedic Andre Hunabelle films of the 60s,...
View ArticleYossi Madmoni – Boker tov adon Fidelman (2011)
After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is in grave financial difficulty. He’s forced to deal with his estranged son, Noah, a...
View ArticleSergio Nasca – Il saprofita aka The Profiteer (1974)
In a Puglia country, the young seminarian Hercules lives in a middle class family in shambles, as the plant organism that feeds on decaying organic matter, said saprophyte. Priest failure, he goes for...
View ArticleGeorg Lhotzky – Moos auf den Steinen aka Moss on the Stones (1968)
Synopsis: Engaged to the daughter of an aging baron, an ambitious advertising executive wishes to renovate the baron’s crumbling castle into a holiday getaway for the social elite. In his zeal to seal...
View ArticleClaude Chabrol – Le Boucher AKA The Butcher (1970) (DVD)
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town. (IMDb)...
View ArticleRalph Nelson –…tick… tick… tick… (1970)
This is the story of a black man (Jim Brown) who has been elected sheriff in a U.S. southern county, due to the vote of blacks. He receives a huge amount of hostility from the non-tolerant white...
View ArticleSeyfi Teoman – Apartman AKA Apartment (2004)
A young woman moves to her new apartment, where one of her new neighbors, a young man living alone, gets interested in her. (IMDb)...
View ArticleBasil Dean – The Constant Nymph (1933)
A married man leaves his wife for a teenage girl. The Constant Nymph is a 1933 British drama film directed by Basil Dean and Victoria Hopper, Brian Aherne and Leonora Corbett. It is an adaptation of...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Melville – Le cercle rouge [+Extras] (1970)
SYNOPSIS : Master thief Corey (Alain Delon) is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those...
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