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Marcel L’Herbier – Eldorado (1921)
Synopsis wrote: The tale of a dancer rejected by her lover and forced to endure other indignities in order to support her child is shown in avant garde style and traditional narrative techniques, with...
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Jacques Demy – Lola (1961)
Quote: Jacques Demy was arguably the greatest romantic of the French New Wave, and Lola was one film in which he proved how vital both sides of that equation were to his vision. While Lola exists...
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Yilmaz Güney & Atif Yilmaz – Zavallilar AKA The Poor AKA The Wretched Ones...
Synopsis: The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are...
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James Mangold – Heavy (1995)
Synopsis: The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is forever changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at he and his mother’s roadside restaurant. Quote: Heavy is...
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Eva Husson – Bang Gang (une histoire d’amour moderne) AKA Bang Gang (A Modern...
Quote: The bold feature debut by French filmmaker Eva Husson explores the sexual exploits and awakenings of a group of teenagers on the beaches (and in the beds) of Biarritz....
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Kutlug Ataman – Iki Genç Kiz AKA Two Girls (2005)
Quote: The film is about two teenage girls, Behiye and Handan, with contrasting characteristics and backgrounds, forming a close relationship with sexual implications. As they become closer and closer...
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Petr Václav – Nikdy nejsme sami AKA We Are Never Alone (2016)
A paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. Weary of life...
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Marco Bellocchio – Salto nel vuoto AKA A Leap in the Dark (1980)
imdb summary Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from...
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Sang-soo Hong – Hahaha (2010)
Movie director Jo Moon-Kyeong (Kim Sang-Kyung), who recently decided to immigrate to Canada, takes a trip down to the small sea-side town of Tongyeong, South Korea. There he meets acquaintance Bang...
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Sang-soo Hong – Yourself and Yours (2016)
Quote: Korean maestro and Festival favourite Hong Sang-soo (Right Now, Wrong Then) embarks on an intriguing foray into the uncanny with this ingenious spin on Luis Buñuel’s final masterpiece That...
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John Ford – The Black Watch (1929)
Quote: August 1914. As his regiment sets sail for France, an army captain is sent back to India on a secret mission. He averts a tribal revolt by winning the love of a girl whom the tribe regard as a...
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Bertrand Tavernier – Une semaine de vacances AKA A Week’s Vacation (1980)
Quote: Here are some ways that Bettrand Tavernier, in production notes for his new film ”A Week’s Vacation,” describes his film: ”A portrait of a woman against the background of almost murmured...
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Costa-Gavras – L’aveu AKA The Confession (1970)
Quote: Costa-Gavras might be the European filmmaker most influential on American directors of the 1970s. Although this honor often goes to Jean-Luc Godard and other compatriots of the Nouvelle Vague,...
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Marcel Moussy – Saint-Tropez Blues (1961)
Synopsis: ‘Anne-Marie goes south with her childhood friend Jean-Paul instead of hitting the books at home. The friends join up with artist-types in Saint Tropez, and though the ambiance is carefree...
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Christian Petzold – Toter Mann AKA Something to Remind Me (2001)
Quote: Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date....
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Vicente Aranda – Las crueles aka El cadáver exquisito aka The exquisite...
,Quote: Carlos (Andre Argaud), a well-do-do publisher and family man, receives a severed hand in the mail at work and buries it before going home but once there, his beautiful wife (Theresa Gimpera)...
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Milos Forman – Lásky jedné plavovlásky AKA Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Quote: The flirtatious title of Milos Forman’s breakthrough comedy Loves of a Blonde says a lot about the film without even trying. Everybody in Forman’s bittersweet film thinks about sex constantly...
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Martin Ritt – Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
Based on Peter DeVries’ novel Witch’s Milk, Pete ‘n’ Tillie stars Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles. Middle-aged when they first meet, eternally joking Pete and repressed “old maid”...
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István Ventilla – Nicole aka Crazed (1978)
Features Dukes Of Hazzard’s Daisy Duke only nude scenes! Crazed features a fully-nude lesbian scene between Daisy Duke herself Catherine Bach and critically acclaimed character actress Leslie Caron...
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Kleber Mendonça Filho – Aquarius (2016)
Synopsis wrote: Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story...
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