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Dino Risi – Belle ma povere AKA Pretty But Poor (1957)
Scharph:Made right after the great success of Risi’s own Poveri ma belli, and released later the same year, here are the further adventures of Romolo, Salvatore and Giovanna. 1.12GB | 1h 34mn |...
View ArticleMorshedul Islam – Amar Bondhu Rashed AKA My Friend Rashed (2011)
Review:We often hear teenagers these days show less interest in reading; rather, they are always busy with browsing the web, playing virtual games and watching films. Keeping that in mind, adaptation...
View ArticlePhilipp Döring – Nagel zum Sarg aka The Nail (2012)
The film is set in Berlin in 1965. Τhe old woman welcomes the Commissioner at her doorstep with the words “I have been waiting for you for 30 years”. She has been maintaining for years the grave,...
View ArticleMohsen Makhmalbaf – Honarpisheh AKA The Actor (1993)
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic...
View ArticleJen Wan – Youma caizi AKA Ah Fei AKA Rapeseed (1983)
Quote:After graduating foreign languages department at Soochow University, he moved to USA, where he received MA in Film from Columbia College in California. While in America, he managed to create two...
View ArticleRaphael Nussbaum – Pets (1973)
IMDB wrote:Naive, but brash and sultry teenage runaway Bonnie finds herself lost and adrift in America. The lovely young lass runs afoul of a colorful array of evil oddballs who all treat her like an...
View ArticleGlenda Nicácio & Ary Rosa – Café com Canela AKA Coffee with Cinnamon (2017)
Five friends drink beer and chat at Violeta’s house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest...
View ArticleRoberto Minervini – Stop the Pounding Heart (2013)
Quote:Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a...
View ArticleErnest Abdyjaparov – Boz salkyn Aka Pure Coolness (2007)
Quote:Melodrama with fairytale elements about an urban beauty in Kyrgyzia who is kidnapped during a visit to the countryside and then has to marry a shepherd according to local tradition. For decades...
View ArticleWes Anderson – Rushmore (1998)
Allmovie Synopsis:After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend...
View ArticleCarlos Conceição – Carne AKA The Flesh [+Extras] (2010)
Synopsis“IMDb wrote:Violante, a young and beautiful catholic nun, is facing a few marital issues with her husband Jesus Christ – who stalks her through the dark corners of a decaying convent and seeks...
View ArticleFrancis Ford Coppola – The Rain People (1969)
Quote:Carefully observed and beautifully shot, the film that launched American Zoetrope 40 years ago is an early herald of Coppola’s talent for crafting delicate narratives that actors can sink their...
View ArticleYimou Zhang – Hong gao liang AKA Red Sorghum [91min edit] (1988)
Quote: Celebrated Mainland filmmaker Zhang Yimou brings his inimitable touch to Red Sorghum, a sumptuous drama set during 1930s China, just prior to the Japanese occupation. Jiu’er (Gong Li) is a...
View ArticleZhangke Jia – Xiaoshan huijia AKA Xiao Shan Going Home (1995)
Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his home in Anyang, he goes to see a series of people...
View ArticleMonika Treut – Die Jungfrauenmaschine AKA Virgin Machine (1988)
synopsisDorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in the Tenderloin, she...
View ArticleTatjana Turanskyj – Eine flexible Frau AKA The Drifters (2010)
Greta: 40, an architect, mother of a 12-year-old son, separated from her husband, recently unemployed. She starts working in a call center but is soon dismissed once again. She does everything in her...
View ArticleEduardo Mignogna – La fuga (2001)
Quote:Argentinean helmer Eduardo Mignogna is best known for mellers like the award-winning “Autumn Sun” (1996) and “The Southern Lighthouse” (1998), but the ambitiously-structured crowd pleaser “The...
View ArticleDaniel Mann – Five Finger Exercise (1962)
Plot Synopsis by Mark DemingA distinguished cast highlights this film adaptation of a stage drama by Peter Shaffer. Stanley Harrington (Jack Hawkins) is a self-made businessman incapable of expressing...
View ArticleAzazel Jacobs – Momma’s Man (2008)
One of the Best Films of 2008 –Entertainment Weekly, Time Out NY, NY Post modestly scaled movie with a heart the size of the Ritz – New York Times Momma’s Man, directed by Azazel Jacobs from his own...
View ArticleNiko von Glasow-Brücher – Edelweißpiraten AKA Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
ksandness from United States wrote:While the title makes it sound like a combination of The Sound of Music and a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, this is actually a serious film about the real-life...
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