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George Cukor – A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Synopsis:Meg Fairfield (Billie Burke) is set to marry Gray Meredith (Paul Cavanagh), pending a divorce from her first husband, Hilary (John Barrymore), who has spent nearly 20 years in an insane...
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Tod Browning – The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true “bounder” Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance...
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Tomu Uchida – Tasogare sakaba AKA Twilight Saloon (1955)
Synopsis:In Twilight Saloon a cast of diverse characters spend an eventful evening in a cheap beer hall filled with music, dance, drunkenness, and self-reflection. Witty and lively, it also has a...
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Dejan Zecevic – Neprijatelj AKA The Enemy (2011)
Bosnia, 1995, the seventh day of peace: an engineering unit is removing mines from the border between the two sides who, until recently, were at war. Each of the soldiers is burdened with experiences...
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Jean-Claude Lauzon – Un Zoo la Nuit aka Night Zoo (1987)
Marcel, recently released from prison, attempts to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he’s been away on a long trip...
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Igor Talankin – Chaykovskiy aka Tchaikovsky (1969)
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was perhaps the greatest Russian composer of all. This is a two-and-a-half-hour bio-pic telling of the last twenty years of his life, and of his friendship with Baroness...
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Ingmar Bergman – Sommarlek AKA Summer Interlude (1951)
While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail. She travels by ferry to an island nearby Stockholm,...
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John Huston – The Dead (1987)
Synopsis:John Huston’s last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston’s favorite authors, James...
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Youssef Chahine – Al-ard aka The Land (1969)
This film can be considered one of the world’s best movies, actually it was chosen on top of the best 100 movies in Egypt. The movie is adopted from a novel written by Abdel Rahman El Sharkawi and was...
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Raimundas Banionis – Vaikai is Amerikos viesbucio AKA Children From The Hotel...
The film revolves around the lives of teenagers in Soviet Lithuania. The protagonists of the film are fans of rock’n’roll music which is banned in the USSR and are interested in the hippie movement,...
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Jacques Tourneur – Easy Living (1949)
from Film Society of Lincoln Center:Money, sex, and football: the three cornerstones of American life spell doom in Tourneur’s tough, subversive anti-marriage melodrama. Victor Mature is a star...
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Aleksandr Zarkhi – Anna Karenina [+Extras] (1967)
Synopsis:“The title character (Tatiana Samojlova) is a dutiful wife to Karenin (Nikolai Gritsenko), a minor political functionary, and mother to a young son, when she meets a dashing young military...
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Shuqin Huang – Hua Hun aka A Soul Haunted by Painting (1995)
Based on the true story of a Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang (Gong Li), whose work was celebrated in Paris yet rejected at home. At fifteen years old, she was sold into prostitution. Her life changes...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Quote:Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age...
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Lulu Wang – The Farewell (2019)
Quote:A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies. 2.13GB | 1 h 39 min |...
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Robert Mulligan – Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Quote:Steve McQueen stars as a rockabilly hopeful, newly paroled from prison, and Lee Remick as his estranged wife in Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965), brought to us by the same triumvirate that...
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Mikio Naruse – Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki AKA When a Woman Ascends the...
Quote:This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged geisha who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and...
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Don Siegel – Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Geoff Andrew, Time Out wrote:A classic of the genre, almost documentary in approach – low budget, no stars, Folsom Prison locations, inmates as extras – and boiling up an explosive violence kept under...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Bicycleran AKA The Cyclist (1989)
SummaryThe wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit...
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Sofia Bohdanowicz – Veslemøy’s Song (2018)
Quote:The film follows a young woman named Audrey Benac who delves into the archives of the New York Public Library in search of a rare recording produced in 1909 titled Veslemøy’s Song. Shot on...
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