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Justine Triet – Victoria (2016) (HD)
Synopsis:Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who’s struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend’s wedding she...
View ArticleGoffredo Alessandrini – Noi vivi aka We the Living (1942)
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear – the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of...
View ArticleEwald André Dupont – Das alte Gesetz aka This Ancient Law (1923)
Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from...
View ArticleYang Zhang – Pi sheng shang de hun AKA Soul on a String (2016)
A slow-simmering, Western-style action drama of blood feud, misfired machismo, and spiritual quest spread across Tibet’s rolling steppes and scorching deserts, “Soul on a String” follows the travails...
View ArticleAlfred E. Green – East of the River (1940)
Synopsis:Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate. When Nick falls for Joe’s girl Laurie, trouble erupts between...
View ArticleCharles Burnett – The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
Quote:James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave star as mutually insane neighbors in a California apartment house who become romantically involved (she thinks she’s sexually intimate with Puccini, and he...
View ArticleJohn Sayles – Matewan (1987)
Independent filmmaker John Sayles creates one of his more artistic works with this period feature about a volatile 1920s labor dispute in the town of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan is a coal town...
View ArticleUlu Grosbard – Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible...
Quote:Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him. 2.60GB | 1 h 48...
View ArticleMaurice Dugowson – F comme Fairbanks AKA F as in Fairbanks (1976)
Synopsis:André Fragman (baptised “Fairbanks” by his cinema projectionist father) returns from his military service with a diploma in chemistry. He expects to have no trouble finding a job, since a...
View ArticleAlain Resnais – Mon oncle d’Amérique AKA My American Uncle (1980)
Mon oncle d’Amérique (“My American Uncle”) is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais. The film stars Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, and Roger Pierre. The didactic film is built around the...
View ArticleAigars Grauba – Rigas sargi AKA Defenders of Riga (2007)
The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain...
View ArticleKrzysztof Zanussi – Spirala aka Spiral (1978)
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency — a message...
View ArticleSang-soo Hong – Gangbyeon hotel AKA Hotel by the River (2018)
SynopsisIt is the dead of winter and a poet invites his sons to join him at a hotel for a reunion. The hotel also hosts a newly single woman who has a friend keep her company and with whom she shares...
View ArticleAgnès Varda – Lions Love (1969)
Quote:Agnes Varda directed this drama which combines formal dramatic structures with the openness of improvisational cinema verite. Independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke plays an avant-garde film...
View ArticleNiles Atallah – Lucia (2010)
Lucia is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film occurs in December 2006 during the weeks that take place from the...
View ArticleSalvatore Samperi – Malizia AKA Malicious (1973)
A widower and his sons fall in love with Angela (Laura Antonelli), the beautiful housekeeper. Each man uses his particular way to approach and capture the – apparently innocent and naive – young...
View ArticleNoah Baumbach – Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Synopsis:After college graduation, Grover’s girlfriend Jane tells him she’s moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all...
View ArticleRobin Hays – Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (2018)
Quote:Anthem tells the story of Luke (Monaghan) a teenager who foresees the death of his new best friend Stan (MacNicoll), the most popular guy in school. When this premonition becomes reality, Luke...
View ArticleAbdellatif Kechiche – Vénus noire AKA Black Venus (2010)
Synopsis:The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar , hoping to find fame and...
View ArticleGabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt – Diamantino (2018)
Diamantino, the world’s premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where he confronts...
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