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Pierre Prévert – Mon frère Jacques [2004 restored version] (1961)
Restored in 2004 by Catherine Prévert Cast Jacques Prévert … Himself Pierre Prévert … Himself Arletty … Herself René Bertele … Himself Pierre Brasseur … Himself Jacques B. Brunius … Himself Raymond...
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Martín Garrido Barón – H6: Diario de un asesino aka H6: Diary of a Serial...
Quote: H6 tells the story of Antonio Frau, a serial killer set free after serving 25 years in jail for the violent murder of his girlfriend. After inheriting and old motel from a relative he never...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre – Adieu, Poulet AKA The French Detective (1975)
Synopsis In the French city of Rouen an election is marred by a fight between the supporters of two of the candidates. In the fracas a man is beaten to death and the killer then shoots a passing...
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John Irvin – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)
Complete 7-part, 290-minute BBC miniseries plus BBC interview – John Le Carre – The Secret Centre Complex but compelling, this miniseries is based upon one of John Le Carré’s greatest works and serves...
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Gonzalo Castro – Invernadero (2010)
Tal cual podría sugerir el sentido más estricto de un invernadero, esto es, un lugar donde las plantas o alguna otra especie se confina para afianzar mejor que en el exterior los ribetes de su propio...
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Christopher Thompson & Alper Cagatay – How to Sell a Banksy (2012)
“Banksy’s work now reportedly changes hands for millions. But he puts up his street art for free. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got your hands on one of these? Does it mean you’ve...
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Philippe Grandrieux – Un lac (2008)
Plot: The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother,...
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Christian Petzold – Dreileben – Etwas Besseres als den Tod AKA Beats Being...
A big hospital on the outskirts of a small city in the middle of the Thuringian Forest. Here Johannes carries out his alternative national service. The head physician, a family friend, has recruited...
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Stefan Uher – Slnko v sieti Aka The Sun in a Net (1962)
A student, Oldrich “Fajolo” Fajtak, has a romantic attachment to two girls: his hometown love Bela, and Jana – a lover whom he meets during a summer job on a collective farm. One storyline of the film...
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Christoph Hochhäusler – Unter dir die Stadt (2010)
A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both...
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Woody Allen – Radio Days (1987)
Woody Allen’s gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini’s Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as...
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Christian Petzold – Barbara (2012)
Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover...
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Christoph Hochhäusler – Dreileben – Eine Minute Dunkel AKA One Minute of...
The Dreileben trilogy comes to a nail-biting close with director Christoph Hochhäusler’s expert thriller, which also brings escaped felon Molosch—a peripheral character in the first two parts—into...
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Dominik Graf – Dreileben – Komm mir nicht nach AKA Don’t Follow Me Around (2011)
In the trilogy’s second chapter, Jo (Jeanette Hain), a big-city police psychologist, arrives in Dreileben to aid in the ongoing investigation, whereupon she finds herself greeted cooly by the local...
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Christoph Hochhäusler – Dreileben – Eine Minute Dunkel AKA One Minute of...
The Dreileben trilogy comes to a nail-biting close with director Christoph Hochhäusler’s expert thriller, which also brings escaped felon Molosch—a peripheral character in the first two parts—into...
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Kenneth Lonergan – Margaret [Extended] (2011)
Plot: A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people’s lives....
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Werner Schroeter – Malina (1991)
In “Malina,” the German film maker Werner Schroeter’s adaptation of a novel by Ingeborg Bachman, Isabelle Huppert portrays a writer who suffers from an interminable case of existential angst. Isabelle...
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José Luis Cuerda – La Lengua De Las Mariposas aka Butterfly (1999)
Synopsis: Veteran director Jose Luis Cuerda delivered this sensitive portrait of a child coming of age during a tense political situation just before the Spanish Civil War. On his first day of school,...
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Sophie Fiennes – The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)
THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed...
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Oded Binnun & Mihal Brezis – Aya (2012)
Two strangers unexpectedly meet at an airport. He mistakenly assumes her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong....
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