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Kazuhiro Sôda – Kaki Koba AKA Oyster Factory (2015)
Plot Summary:In the Japanese town of Ushimado, the shortage of labor is a serious problem due to its population’s rapid decline. Traditionally, oyster shucking has been a job for local men and women,...
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Václav Marhoul – Tobruk (2008) (HD)
Nominated for eight Crystal Lions (the Czech Republic’s equivalent of the Oscars), and a substantial domestic hit, war film “Tobruk” reps a solid work of craftsmanship in every department. Story of a...
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Arcady Boytler & Raphael J. Sevilla – La Mujer del puerto AKA Woman of the...
IMDB:Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret “selling her love to...
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Fereydun Gole – Zir-e poost-e shab (1974)
IMDB:In one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding...
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Alain Robbe-Grillet – L’immortelle (1963)
Synopsis:A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly...
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Sofia Coppola – The Virgin Suicides [+extras] (1999)
Quote:A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s. Slant wrote: It makes sense that...
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Christian Marquand – Les grands chemins / F.L.A.S.H. (1963)
On a road in Haute-Provence, Francis meets up with a young musician, Samuel. They strike up a friendship and decide to stay at a mountain hotel, managed by an attractive young woman called Anna....
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Sofia Coppola – Lick the Star (1998)
Quote: Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut revisits adolescence through the eyes of four middle school girls obsessed with the novels of V.C. Andrews. The film explores the politics of teenage girls...
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Chan-sang Lim – Hyojadong ibalsa aka The Presidents Barber (2004)
Synopsis:Seong Han-mo (Song Kang-ho) is a barber and owns a shop in the president’s neighborhood, the Blue House. Politically not very well-versed he always joins his acquaintances’ opinions and at...
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Federico Fellini – Otto e mezzo AKA 8½ [+commentary] (1963)
Quote: 8 1/2 weaves fluidly through the visually intoxicating landscape of Federico Fellini’s subconscious, seemingly to seek inspiration and validation for his life and work. In an opening scene that...
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Anatole Litvak – Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Mobster Tommy Gordon isn’t worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends...
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Vishal Bhardwaj – The Blue Umbrella (2005) (HD)
Quote:Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various...
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Henri Decoin – Bonnes à tuer AKA One Step to Eternity (1954)
Synopsis:‘François Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper (who justifies his actions by calling attention to his poverty-stricken childhood), invites four women to a housewarming at...
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Stuart Heisler – Chain Lightning (1950)
Synopsis:Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan (Humphrey Bogart) takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway (Eleanor...
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John Huston – Freud (1962)
Synopsis:This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients,...
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Alan Arkin – Little Murders (1971)
Quote:Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict...
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Abdellatif Kechiche – Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017)
Quote:Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends....
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Tony Smith – Theatre Night: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1985)
With its author’s trademark wit, social satire and outrageous paradox, Wilde’s play shows us the destructiveness of gossip and superficial judgement, and examines the ambiguous sexual morality and...
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Jun Ichikawa – Bu su (1987)
Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt’s house, basically a geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She’s not into geisha life style...
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Tom Laughlin – The Born Losers (1967)
A malicious motorcycle gang harasses the residents of a small California town, intimidating most residents to not report them to the police. Among the gang’s crimes is the rape of four young women. As...
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