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Alain Guiraudie – Pas de repos pour les braves AKA No Rest for the Brave (2003)
First of all there is Basile Matin, a young man who dreamt of Fafatao-Laoupo, symbol of the penultimate sleep… Now he knows that he will die if he ever falls asleep again in his life. The problem is,...
View ArticleMartin Ritt – The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Plot Summary from IMDb: Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman’s Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman’s...
View ArticleCarmen Blanco – Los amores cobardes (2018) (HD)
Eva is a young and independent cartoonist who returns to Málaga (Spain) to spend the summer holidays. There she meets her mother and Gema, her best friend. What she does not expect is to meet again...
View ArticleEmir Kusturica – Sjecas Li Se, Dolly Bell ? aka Do you remember, Dolly Bell ?...
SYNOPSIS: (from the Artificial Eye release)As Hollywood movies begin to find their way into the country, sixteen year-old Dino becomes seduced by the glamour of the gangster films that flash before...
View ArticleJerzy Stuhr – Duze zwierze AKA Big Animal (2000)
Quote:Mr. Zygmunt Sawicki is a bank employee, who finds a camel in his yard one day. He decides to take charge of it and he and his wife Marysia take care of it. However, problems arise for both his...
View ArticleOtto Rippert – Die Pest in Florenz (1919)
Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city’s ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman...
View ArticleVal Guest – 80,000 Suspects (1963)
Synopsis:British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of stemming the disease, he must locate and isolate its source. As if...
View ArticleHynek Bocan – Cest a sláva AKA Honor and Glory (1968)
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War...
View ArticleKrzysztof Zanussi – Serce na dloni aka And A Warm Heart (2008)
Quote:In this moral fable from Poland, Konstanty (Bohdan Stupka) is a wealthy and amoral man who has made his fortune running a chain of supermarkets and has both the bank account and the lack of...
View ArticleMichael Hofmann – Eden (2006)
Quote:A chef discovers that the old saw “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” works for women as well in this romantic comedy from Germany. Gregor (Josef Ostendorf) is a gourmet chef who...
View ArticleJudd Ne’eman – Ha-Simla AKA The Dress (1969)
Three short stories of life in Tel Aviv; A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; A young husband comes home to meet his wife’s boyfriend; A young clerk opens a letter and...
View ArticleBob Quinn – Poitín AKA Poteen [+extra] (1978)
Quote:Poitin is widely regarded as a classic of Irish cinema. It tells the story of a Conamara moonshiner, his daughter and two cheating agents who they outwit and bring to a tragic end. The story has...
View ArticleJean-François Richet – Ma 6-T va crack-er AKA Crack 6-T (1997)
Wikipedia wrote:The story is set in a cité (6-T in French slang), or housing project, in the Parisian suburb of Meaux. The residents are unhappy about their living conditions, and are rebelling...
View ArticlePierre Schoendoerffer – La 317ème section AKA The 317th Platoon (1965)
Director Pierre Schoendoerffer grippingly brings the close of the French war in Indochina to the screen in his portrayal of two officers and a group of Laotian soldiers serving under them in 1954. The...
View ArticleJoseph L. Mankiewicz – The Quiet American (1958)
Plot:In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit...
View ArticlePaul Newman – The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Synopsis:Widowed Beatrice Hunsdorfer is miserable in her life, and in turn she has contempt for everyone around her. She blames everyone except herself for her problems, but most specifically her now...
View ArticleRichard Linklater – Before Sunrise (1995) (HD)
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one romantic evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together. 5.45GB |...
View ArticleLav Diaz – Melancholia (2008)
Crowned best film in Venice’s Horizons section, Lav Diaz’s latest madly uncommercial 7½-hour magnum opus, “Melancholia,” sets a trio of survivors wandering the country in a dirge to those lost to...
View ArticleKen Loach – Cathy Come Home (1966)
Quote:From the BBC’s influential ‘Wednesday Play’ series. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home, husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the British welfare...
View ArticleRichard Fleischer – The New Centurions (1972)
Synopsis:A group of new police recruits takes to patrolling the streets of Los Angeles. Roy Fehler is a law student with a family and has joined the LAPD until he can complete his degree. He’s...
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