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Charles Walters – Lili (1953)
Plot: Members of a circus troupe “adopt” Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her...
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Nikos Koundouros – Magiki polis AKA The Magic City (1954)
Quote: Early 50s. Young director Nikos Koundouros debuts with Magic City. He is a 28 year old art school graduate that has already spent time imprisoned for political reasons in the infamous...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios AKA Women on the...
Quote: Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is...
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Jérôme de Missolz – La mécanique des femmes AKA The Mechanics of Women (2000)
The Mechanics of Women is based on the novel by Louis Calaferte and directed by Jerome De Missolz. It concerns one man’s obsession and one woman’s appetite, and the consequences of their ultimate...
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Albert Serra – La mort de Louis XIV (2016)
Agust 1715. Coming back from his promenade, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The following days, the king his keeping his obligations but he has agitated nights, and the fever is getting him. He...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Szamanka AKA Chamanka [+Extras] (1996)
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI’S adaptation of Manuela Gretkowska’s provocative and hugely successful novel reaches new extremes in the depiction of brutality, sex, and passion as it tells the story of a young(ish)...
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Catalin Mitulescu – 17 minute intarziere (1999)
Romanian student film, shot on 35mm. Now the guy is 33 years old and already can be proud of his PALME D’OR Romanian filmmaker Catalin Mitulescu spent numerous years working in Austria, Hungary,...
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Joseph W. Sarno – Abigail Lesley Is Back in Town (1975)
A seductive woman, who left her small fishing town long ago after being caught with another woman’s husband, returns to shake up the place by seducing everyone, including the woman and her...
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Maroun Bagdadi – Beyrouth ya Beyrouth AKA Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975)
In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. It proved to be an extraordinary anticipation of the civil war...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Nectar (2014) (HD)
Synopsis: A round chamber in a park, where five women perform a ritual they know well. The queen gives her nectar. Yet a new cycle is already under way....
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Claude Chabrol –À double tour aka Leda [Composite BD/DVD Cut] (1959)
Storyline: Leda, the flirt of Monsieur Marcoux is murdered. His wife and the police think, that the murderer was the milk-man, the friend of the maid, but Marcoux’ daughter’s fiance Lazo, who is aware...
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Claude Chabrol – Madame Bovary (1991)
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor Charles Bovary. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local...
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Shunji Iwai – Love Letter (1995)
IMDB plot summary: Hiroko Watanabe’s fiancee Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a...
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Tomasz Wasilewski – Zjednoczone stany milosci AKA United States of Love (2016)
Quote: Tomasz Wasilewski’s United States of Love may take place just after 1989’s felling of the Berlin Wall but little of the era’s euphoric optimism transfers to the Polish writer-director’s...
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Asghar Farhadi – Forushande AKA The Salesman (2016)
Quote: One of the many reasons that Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time — the quintessential filmmaker — is that his spirit and technique infuse the work of so many other...
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Marco Bellocchio – Fai bei sogni (2016)
Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the death of his mother. Years later, he is forced to relive his traumatic past and compassionate doctor Elisa could help him open up and confront his...
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Anna Muylaert – Mãe Só Há Uma AKA Don’t Call Me Son (2016)
Quote: Most films—especially taut, lower-budgeted indies—choose one theme or dramatic premise and run with it. Others cross-wire two potent and ostensibly unrelated ideas and bask in the sparks they...
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Cãtãlin Mitulescu – Dincolo de calea feratã AKA By The Rails (2016)
Radu has come back from Italy after an year and finds his wife totally changed. They spend the night trying to rediscover their selves. The distance has created distrust and confusion between them but...
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Marc Rothemund – Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage AKA Sophie Scholl: The...
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943) was a prominent member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of treason after having been found...
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Siddiq Barmak – Osama (2003)
The movies are a little more than a century old. Imagine if we could see films from previous centuries — records of slavery, the Great Fire of London, the Black Plague. “Osama” is like a film from...
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