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Roland Reber – Illusion (2013)
Synopsis: Eight people that cannot be more different meet in a bar. For one night they escape their everyday life which is paralysed of rituals and find themselves in a journey to their world of...
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Raj Amit Kumar – Unfreedom (2014)
The movie that is BANNED in India. Quote: When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar’s film...
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Yimou Zhang – Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao AKA Shanghai Triad (1995)
Summary: “Country boy Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle who wants the boy to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian). In fact,...
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Jean-Loup Hubert – Après la guerre AKA The War Is Over (1989)
Synopsis The conflict in question is World War II; even though hostilities have all but ceased, the Germans and the French are not precisely reconciled. German soldier Richard Bohringer, absent...
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Giuseppe M. Gaudino – Per amor vostro AKA For Your Love (2015)
The film is built around Anna (Valeria Golino), a woman who has become so disconnected from life she can only see in grey. She works as a television show prompter, and is by all accounts pretty good...
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Jack Clayton – The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Synopsis: Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo’s eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo’s three...
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Lucrecia Martel – La niña santa AKA The Holy Girl (2004)
Quote: With her award-winning feature-film debut, La Ciénaga (The Swamp) (2001), writer-director Lucrecia Martel emerged as one of the brightest figures of the new Argentinean cinema. In her follow...
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Veit Harlan – Hanna Amon (1951)
Synopsis Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. While Hanna of local veterinary and Thomas Brunner of the mayor’s daughter is secretly admired and sought...
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Hsiu-Chiung Chiang – Saihate nite AKA The Furthest End Awaits (2014)
Misaki Yoshida (Hiromi Nagasaku) runs a roasting coffee shop in Tokyo. She lives alone. In order to find her father, who was separated from her when she was a child, Misaki goes back to her hometown...
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Hirokazu Koreeda – Umimachi Diary (2015)
Plot There are three sisters: 29-year-old Sachi Kouda (Haruka Ayase), 22-year-old Yoshino Kouda (Masami Nagasawa) and 19-year-old Chika Kouda (Kaho). They live at a house in Kamakura, Japanese. Their...
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Ki-duk Kim – Shilje sanghwang AKA Real Fiction (2000)
Quote: An unstable artist (Ju Jin-mo) is sent over the edge during a walk in the park when a woman with a video camera (Kim Jin-ah) begins following him. Flying into a murderous rage, the artist...
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Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán – Dólares de arena AKA Sand Dollars (2014)
An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an...
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Dan Wolman – Floch (1972)
From imdb: I believe Hanoch Levin is Israel’s only great playwright. He’s best known for stark, stylized black humor about petty people who are unaware of their own pettiness. It’s a little as if...
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Zhangke Jia – Shan he gu ren AKA Mountains May Depart (2015)
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/7696EC0C47AD902/Mountains.May.Depart.2015.HD720P.X264.AAC.mkv...
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Vsevolod Pudovkin – Mat AKA Mother (1926)
The son of a worthless alcoholic father and a hardworking mother leads an illegal strike during the failed 1905 uprising. In an attempt to save her son, the mother inadvertently gives him away to the...
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François Truffaut – La peau douce AKA The Soft Skin (1964)
Quote: Many of François Truffaut’s film have elements of the autobiographical and The Soft Skin is no exception. Written in collaboration with Jean-Louis Richard, the French director in renowned for...
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Lance Comfort – The Painted Smile (1962)
‘The Painted Smile’ (1962) sees young student Mark (Peter Reynolds) wrongly accused of murder. He is lured back to an apartment by con-artist Jo (Liz Fraser), only to find her boyfriend brutally...
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Jean Epstein – L’auberge rouge AKA The Red Inn (1923)
Based on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the night Prosper...
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Raoul Ruiz – Les Trois couronnes du matelot AKA Three Crowns of the Sailor...
Quote: In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in...
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Spike Lee – Chi-Raq (2015)
Storyline After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago’s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature...
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