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Mitchell Leisen – Death Takes a Holiday (1934) (HD)
The Grim Reaper (Frederic March) takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love. 7.27GB | 1h 19mn | 1460×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleHaifaa Al-Mansour – Wadjda [+commentary] (2012)
Slant Magazine wrote:Wadjda, a film about the oppression and long-imposed inferiority of women in Saudi Arabia, even begins with a downward-tilted, condescending gaze, offering an opening shot of...
View ArticleÉric Rohmer – Le beau mariage AKA A Good Marriage (1982)
Quote:Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond,...
View ArticleGabriel Abrantes, Denis Côté, Marie Losier, Dominga Sotomayor – Aqui, em...
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a...
View ArticleKumar Shahani – Tarang AKA Wages and Profits (1984)
Sethji is a widowed, a businessman and lives a comfortable life with his only daughter, Hansa, his son-in-law, Rahul, and a grandson, Munna. He has Rahul as his right-hand man, and a nephew named...
View ArticleVic Morrow – Deathwatch (1966)
Quote:Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict. Leonard Nimoy (Jules LeFranc), Michael Forest (Greeneyes), Paul...
View ArticleTatsumi Kumashiro – Kaburitsuki jinsei AKA A Thirsty Life (1968)
Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Komimasa Tanaka, the film tell the story of a strip-teaser, and her daughter who wishes to join her mother’s profession. 1.45GB | 1 h 34 min | 844×352 | mkv...
View ArticleKarpo Acimovic-Godina – Umetni raj AKA Artificial Paradise (1990)
Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army...
View ArticleNadine Labaki – Et maintenant on va où? AKA Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
In an isolated Lebanese village, the mosque and the church stand side by side–but religious tension threatens to boil over, particularly as a series of pranks escalates into ever-increasing hostility....
View ArticleSana Na N’Hada – Xime (1994)
The film tells the tale of Iala, whose authority over his two sons, Raul and Bedan, is shaken. Raul has left to study in a seminary in the big city, where unknown to anyone, he has joined the...
View ArticleMikio Naruse – Uwasa no musume aka The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
Quote:A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a “moga” (“modern girl”). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop — but is running into financial trouble (causing...
View ArticleLav Diaz – Ang panahon ng halimaw AKA Season of the Devil (2018)
SynopsisPhilippines, late 1970s. A military-controlled militia is oppressing a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological. The fearless young doctor Lorena who opened a clinic...
View ArticleVladimír Cech – Divá Bára AKA Wild Barbara (1949)
Bára, the daughter of a communal herdsman, is pursued by all the young men from the village. The parents of the village boys are not pleased with this at all, because they believe the superstitious...
View ArticleLuigi Zampa – Campane a martello AKA Alarm Bells (1949)
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over, Agostina and her friend plan...
View ArticlePaolo Sorrentino – Il divo – La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti AKA Il...
Quote:The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946. Roger Ebert wrote:They would seem to be...
View ArticleRaoul Peck – Moloch Tropical (2009)
In a fortress perched on the top of a mountain, a “democratically elected” President and his closest collaborators are getting ready for a state celebration. Foreign chiefs of state and dignitaries of...
View ArticleAleksei Fedorchenko – Ovsyanki aka Silent Souls (2010)
Quote:Two buntings—small, sparrow-like birds—sit in a cage on the back of a bike in the opening moments of Aleksai Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls. The man peddling the bike (and narrating the film from...
View ArticleIngmar Bergman – Rabies (1958)
“This made-for-television film was based on Olle Hedberg’s script, which Ingmar Bergman had directed for the City Theatre of Hälsingborg as early as in 1945, and as a radio play the following year....
View ArticleJoseph P. Mawra – Olga’s House of Shame (1964)
After having been run out of New York City’s Chinatown, brothel owner Madame Olga moves her ring of prostitutes and criminals to a deserted ore mine and starts over. “As the original negative for...
View ArticleNelson Pereira dos Santos – Boca de Ouro AKA The Golden Mouth [+Extras] (1963)
When powerful outlaw “Boca de Ouro” dies, a reporter interviews his former lover Guigui, to try to outline his personality. But the woman offers him three different versions of the facts, following...
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