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Fernando Birri – Los Inundados aka Flooded Out (1961)
From Allmovie:Government bureaucracy and ineptitude, as well as social foibles, get a drubbing in this socio-political satire by director Fernando Birri. Everything starts when the families in a poor,...
View ArticleJanusz Nasfeter – Nie bede cie kochac AKA I Won’t Love You (1974)
SynopsisIn an idyllic working class community, 13 year old Anka grows up, going through stages of adolescence, dreaming, first love and gossiping with girlfriends. Roughly disturbed by the shame and...
View ArticleFatih Akin – Auf der anderen Seite aka The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Quote:The power of co-incidence is explored to dramatic effect in The Edge Of Heaven, a Turkish-German production about two deaths that bring strangers together. Once the opening titles warn us of...
View ArticleFatih Akin – Aus dem Nichts AKA In the Fade (2017)
Quote: First off: Fatih Akin’s “The Cut” was an aberration, as we all suspected. The director celebrated for his edgy takes on intriguing characters more or less returns with “In the Fade,” a...
View ArticleLuis Buñuel – Le journal d’une femme de chambre AKA Diary of a Chambermaid...
Quote:This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Buñuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial...
View ArticleJi-woo Jung – Haepi-endeu AKA Happy End (1999)
Quote:Bo ra, a successful English institute manager, has became the financial pillar of the house since her seemingly much older husband, Min ki, once a successful banker has lost his job. Her boring,...
View ArticleSeijun Suzuki – Kawachi Karumen AKA Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
Synopsis:‘Carmen from Kawachi brings the nihilist Suzuki universe to a woman’s life in the decidedly unsentimental education of a provincial factory worker, Tsuyuko, whose rape by two fellow villagers...
View ArticleOlivier Assayas – Doubles vies AKA Non-Fiction (2018) (HD)
SynopsisSet in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives. 7.67GB | 1 h 47...
View ArticleKon Ichikawa – Sasame-yuki AKA The Makioka Sisters (1983)
This lyrical adaptation of the beloved novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for director Kon Ichikawa. Structured around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)...
View ArticleRiri Riza – Gie (2005)
Based on a true character, GIE is a central yet unknown political activist/writer in the 60’s, the darkest era of Indonesian history. His life is a clash between a high drama of political events, and...
View ArticleRoberto Rossellini – L’Età di Cosimo de Medici AKA The Age of Medici AKA The...
Synopsis:This three-part saga evokes the social, economic, and religious life of fifteenth-century Florence through two of its leading lights: banker Cosimo de’ Medici and art theorist Leon Battista...
View ArticleStanley Kubrick – Fear and Desire (1953)
Synopsis:A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy...
View ArticleCarl Theodor Dreyer – Vredens dag AKA Day of Wrath [+ Extras] (1943)
Plot:In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft. In the shadow of her flight, capture, confession, and burning at the stake, the young wife of the town’s aging pastor...
View ArticleJanusz Morgenstern – Do widzenia, do jutra aka See You Tomorrow; Good Bye,...
In this routine story within a story from Poland, Jacek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is the head of a troupe of thespians and so he is responsible for getting together the material for them to act out on the...
View ArticleAndrzej Wajda – Wesele AKA The Wedding (1973)
Quote:It’s 1900, and for the last 130 years Poland has been wiped off the map of Europe; it’s still occupied by three invaders: Russia, Austria and Prussia. In a village near Cracow, a wedding takes...
View ArticleUlu Grosbard – Georgia (1995)
Synopsis:Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her...
View ArticleFrançois Ozon – Sous le sable (2000) (HD)
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional. 7.59GB | 1h 36mn | 1920×1034 | mkv...
View ArticleLone Scherfig – Italiensk For Begyndere aka Italian for Beginners (2000)
In a city suburb, a young minister arrives to take up duties at a local church. He is persuaded by his assistant to join an Italian night school class, and he soon becomes the centre of a group of...
View ArticleAlberto Lattuada – Senza pietà AKA Without Pity (1948)
Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film’s sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and...
View ArticleHideaki Anno – Love & Pop (1998)
Quote:It is the ’90s and the tradition of ‘compensated dating’ is well underway in Japan. Four high school girls are engaged in enjo kosai in order to satisfy their desire for different things. You...
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