William Castle – Strait-Jacket (1964)
Plot : Lucy Harbin has spent 20-years in a psychiatric hospital for the decapitation axe-murder of her husband (Lee Majors) and his mistress, after catching him cheating on her. After she is released,...
View ArticleRobert Z. Leonard – Dancing Lady (1933)
Janie (Joan Crawford), is a former dancer in a burlesque theater. During a show, one man from the public takes off part of Janie’s costume, leaving her almost topless. In that precise moment police...
View ArticleCurtis Bernhardt – Possessed [+Extras] (1947)
Synopsis from IMDb: A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flasbacks...
View ArticleNeten Chokling – Milarepa (2006)
Quote: The Tibetan film Milarepa, produced in 2006 is set in the magnificent Spiti Valley high in the Himalayas in the Zanskar region close to the border between India and Tibet. Directed by Neten...
View ArticleReis Çelik – Lal gece AKA Night of Silence (2012)
Quote: Night of Silence is a striking film that focuses on child brides, a most common problem which should never fall off the radar. The story starts with an opulent village wedding in Anatolia. Folk...
View ArticleMike Hodges – The Terminal Man (1974)
Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the...
View ArticleStefan Arsenijevic – Ljubav i drugi zlocini AKA Love and Other Crimes (2008)
Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress to Milutin, a wealthly local criminal who owns a solarium and runs a protection racket. Anica is...
View ArticleDheeraj Akolkar – Liv & Ingmar (2012)
Synopsis This feature documentary is an affectionate yet truthful account of the 42 years and 12 films long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master film maker Ingmar Bergman....
View ArticleClarence Brown – Sadie McKee (1934)
IMDB: The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family. Lawyer Michael Alderson likes Sadie but she runs off to New York...
View ArticleHyeong-Joon Kim – Yongseoneun Eupda aka No Mercy (2010)
Plot / Synopsis Forensic pathologist Kang is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho, as the primary...
View ArticleJoão Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues – A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (2012)
Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood – featured memories by the lived reality in Macao –...
View ArticleFrank Borzage – Strange Cargo (1940)
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson “Strange” is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio’s Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea...
View ArticleJules Dassin – Reunion in France (1942)
IMDB: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country....
View ArticleOrson Welles – The Orson Welles Sketchbook (1955)
Orson Welles’ BBC series is basically a bunch of monologues by Welles, with some illustrations by Welles, about — theatre; theatre critics; voodoo magic used to kill theatre critics; bullfighting;...
View ArticleOrson Welles – The AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Orson Welles...
In 1975, the American Film Institute bestowed upon Orson Welles their third Lifetime Achievement Award. (The first went to John Ford and the second to James Cagney.) This program, which originally...
View ArticleSam Newfield – Money Madness (1948)
Money Madness (1948) link ‘Money Madness’ (1948) Hugh Beaumont (Steve) Frances Rafferty (Julie) Cecil Weston (Aunt Cora) Harlan Warde (Attorney) Leave it to Ward Cleaver. With a few deft strokes, he...
View ArticleJirí Weiss – Vlcí jáma AKA The Wolf Trap (1957)
Synopsis: Quote: The childless family of the veterinarian and mayor of a small town, Robert Rýdl, and his much older wife, Klára, is joined by an orphaned girl, Jana. The girl is grateful for her new...
View ArticleKenneth Anger – Lucifer Rising (1972)
“A film about the love generation – the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light god, not the devil – the Rebel Angel behind what’s...
View ArticleJörg Buttgereit – Nekromantik (1987)
Warning! This film is not for the weak-of-stomach! This film contains scenes of violence, gore, and necrophelia and should not be viewed by minors. If you are easily offended by such material, do not...
View ArticleMaximiliano Schonfeld – Germania (2012)
In a small town of Entre Ríos, a German family is preparing to leave their farm, for reasons that will only be revealed much later. On the last day, the two teenage brothers, Brenda and Lucas, say...
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