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Archie Mayo & Fritz Lang – Moontide (1942)
Synopsis:After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues...
View ArticleKonrad Wolf – Sonnensucher AKA Sun Seekers (1958)
Director Konrad Wolf’s gritty and controversial tale follows two young women who go to work at a uranium mine in Wismut, East Germany. With anarchists, former S.S. soldiers, and ex-Russian officers...
View ArticleWilliam Wyler – The Letter (1940)
Synopsis:William Wyler’s dark and poisonous melodrama, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, features Bette Davis in one of her nastiest roles. The story begins in the shimmering moonlight on a...
View ArticleZenzô Matsuyama – Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku AKA Happiness of Us Alone...
SynopsisThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and dumb. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations … and joys. Quote:The...
View ArticleRachel Lang – Baden Baden (2016) (HD)
Quote:After a failed attempt at working on a foreign film set, 26 year-old Ana returns to her hometown of Strasbourg. Over the scorching summer that follows, she decides to replace her grandmother’s...
View ArticleKa-Fai Wai – Joi sun ho AKA Written By (2009)
SynopsisA lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter’s novel. 1.82GB | 1 h 24 min | 864×368 | mkv...
View ArticleIrving Rapper – Deception (1946)
Brief Synopsis:A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover. Quote:Deception is an operatic rehash of the 1929 film Jealousy. Music teacher Bette Davis–who...
View ArticleJúlia Murat – Pendular (2017)
A young couple settles down in a large abandoned industrial warehouse. An orange strip, glued to the floor, partitions the area in two equal portions: to the right, his sculpture atelier; to the left,...
View ArticleEliseo Subiela – Pequeños milagros AKA Little Miracles (1997)
Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a magic fantasy world in order to survive living in the real one. She thinks she is a fairy who came on a...
View ArticleKihachi Okamoto – Sengoku yaro AKA Warring Clans (1963)
In this Japanese samurai adventure, a brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to...
View ArticleCarlos Sorin – La ventana AKA The Window (2008)
Quote:It is a significant day for 80 year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special champagne;...
View ArticleFederico Fellini – Le Notti di Cabiria AKA The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Plot SynopsisTragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in the seediest sections of Rome. Nights of Cabiria Essay by Federico FelliniThe subject of loneliness and the observation of...
View ArticleAlan Clarke – Play for Today: Penda’s Fen (1974)
An extraordinary evocation of conflicting forces within England: authority, tradition, hypocrisy, landscape, art, sexuality, and most of all, its mystical, ancient past. All of this comes together in...
View ArticleEdward Killy – Wanted! Jane Turner (1936)
After gangster Phil Crowley robs a mail truck and murders its driver, postal secretary Doris Martin and postal inspector Tom Mallory are called on to track down the elusive fugitive. They follow the...
View ArticleKaneto Shindô – Ichimai no hagaki AKA Postcard (2010)
Synopsis:Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade’s wife...
View ArticleMatías Piñeiro – Rosalinda (2011)
Two different rhythms in the same body. The first one of an actress and the second that of his character: Luisa and Rosalinda share the same body but not the same rhythm. One afternoon in the Delta...
View ArticleAntoine Bourges – Fail to Appear (2017)
Isolde, a social worker in a poor district in Toronto, is on her first case assignment; the administrative procedures she follows have us feel the burden of an action that is nonetheless...
View ArticleJoseph Losey – The Big Night (1951)
A film noir treatise about the coming of age of a young man is beautifully realized by the great Joseph Losey. John Drew Barrymore zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while...
View ArticleZoran Tadic – Ritam Zlocina AKA Rhythm Of Crime (1981)
A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics and claims he can predict crimes based on...
View ArticleJoseph Pevney – The Strange Door (1951)
Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can’t get over the death of his beloved, twenty years...
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