Karim Ainouz – Praia do Futuro AKA Futuro Beach (2014)
Short after facing the failure of an attempt to rescue a drowning man, Donato meets Konrad, friend of the victim. Motivated by the circumstances, Donato decides to begin a new life in Berlin, but...
View ArticleMario Bava – Gli Invasori AKA Erik the Conqueror (1961)
PLOT In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out...
View ArticleSelim Gunes – Kar Beyaz AKA White As Snow (2010)
The movie takes the audience on a journey through time by throwing light on the vicious cycle of an era, taking place at the beginning of the seventies. The director gives life to the story on screen...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – Torn Curtain (1966)
Quote: A double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves in this hriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman)...
View ArticleAndrey Zvyagintsev – Leviafan AKA Leviathan (2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Nikolai is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits his old Army friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further...
View ArticleJean-Claude Biette – Saltimbank (2003)
The last Biette film, starring Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jean-Marc Barr, Micheline Presle, Ima de Ranedo, Pascal Cervo, Marilyne Canto, Hans Zischler, etc....
View ArticleLeo McCarey – An Affair to Remember (1957)
———————– Plot Synopsis allmovie.com ———————– An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey’s scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn’t really an improvement on the original, but...
View ArticleRichard Linklater – Boyhood (2014) (HD)
Quote: In 2002, six-year-old Mason Evans, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) and his older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) live with their single mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) in Texas. Mason overhears...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Pather Panchali (1955)
Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal. The father, a poet and priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going. Apu’s...
View ArticleJohn Waters – Polyester (1981)
Quote: Polyester is a 1981 comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It was filmed in Waters’ native Baltimore,...
View ArticleJohn Cassavetes – A Woman Under the Influence [+Extras] (1974)
‘A Woman Under Influence’ Stars Gena Rowlands as Frenetic Wife:The Cast When a husband and wife need to keep saying how much they love each other, something’s apt to be awfully wrong. That nervous...
View ArticleAmos Gitai – Disengagement (2007)
Plot: A political drama centered around Israel’s pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin (Binoche) returns to the West Bank...
View ArticlePaolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Allonsanfan (1973)
Quote: In Allonsanfan, the director/brother team of Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani weave a witty and occasionally melancholic tale of 19th century radicalism in Italy. Marcello Mastroianni stars...
View ArticleMark Locke – Crust (2003)
Quote: Guy Hands, chief executive of U.K. buyout firm Terra Firma, lost nearly $34 million as a result of investments in films including the bizarre tale of a seven-foot boxing shrimp. Hands is one of...
View ArticleRuben Östlund – De Ofrivilliga aka Involuntary (2008)
Involuntary is a series of stories exploring different perspectives on the power of a group over the individual. At once humorous and poignant, each situation raises questions about the value of the...
View ArticleMidi Z – Bing Du aka Ice Poison (2014)
Faced with diminishing returns on his harvest, a poor young farmer in Myanmar pawns his cow for a moped and seeks alternative income as a taxi driver. Among his first fares is a woman who has returned...
View ArticleArnaud Desplechin – La forêt AKA The Forest (2014)
Based on the play by the russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The film adaptation of the Comédie-Française theatre’s spectacle with their actors. A “vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family...
View ArticleRuben Östlund – Play (2011)
An insightful and troubling film about race, ethics and manipulation, Ruben Östlund’s Play is based on an actual incident in Gothenburg, Sweden in which a group of black kids manipulated white and...
View ArticleLiliana Cavani – Interno Berlinese AKA The Berlin Affair (1985)
Review I In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador’s daughter Mio Takaki....
View ArticlePierre Léon – Phantom Power (2014)
It is not yet on IMDb. Not much info about this movie on the web, but this is a good summary: Created at irregular intervals, Pierre Léon’s small oeuvre oscillates between experimental home movie and...
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