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Kirill Serebrennikov – (M)uchenik AKA The Student (2016)
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him....
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Yesim Ustaoglu – Tereddut AKA Clair Obscur (2016)
Synopsis “Clair Obscur” is the psychological dance of two women who are deprived of and distanced from their natural right to mature and discover themselves, to love and be loved, and to sustain a...
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Olivier Assayas – Personal Shopper (2016)
Quote: A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person...
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Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin – Voir du pays AKA The Stopover (2016)
Synopsis At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of “decompression leave” at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists....
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Terence Young – Wait Until Dark (1967)
Wait Until Dark (1967) is a suspense-thriller film directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a young blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for...
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Le fate ignoranti AKA His Secret Life (2001)
Quote: When Antonia’s husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele. Although she’s...
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Paul Almond – Isabel (1968)
A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits. As a comment on religious repression, familial ostracism, and subliminal incestuous urges, this film might...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Ni luo he nu er AKA Daughter of the Nile (1987)
Synopsis: The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime. Review: At first sight, you...
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Derek Jarman – Jubilee (1978)
Quote: Punks hail Britannia in their own peculiar way in this little-seen gem by the late queer auteur Jubilee (1978), Britain’s only decent punk film, still isn’t respected at home as much as it...
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André Farwagi – Le temps de mourir AKA The Time to Die (1970)
Synopsis: ‘Max Topfer is a successful businessman who lives alone, surrounded by bodyguards. One day, he receives a film which shows him his brutal death at the hands of an unknown assassin.’ – MUBI...
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Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers (1960)
Sons and Lovers At the Brattle through Saturday By William A. Nitze, March 26, 1962 0 Sons and Lovers does not lend itself easily to a movie script, but Jack Cardiff has transformed Lawrence’s novel...
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Edward Yang – Qing mei zhu ma AKA Taipei Story (1985)
Quote: Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme...
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Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)
Quote: Jealousy and violence take center stage in this claustrophobic melodrama, a tautly constructed character study set in the slums of Manila. Lino Brocka crafts an eviscerating portrait of an...
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Jean Epstein – Chanson d’Armor (1934)
Synopsis: Ballad-type drama-documentary spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a fisherman and the lady of the manor. IMDb-review:...
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Mauro Herce – Dead Slow Ahead (2015)
Quote: For over two months, Mauro Herce and his crew travelled aboard the freighter My Fair Lady, shooting 14-16 hours a day as it made it laborious journey from Ukraine to New Orleans. Blurring the...
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Michael Winterbottom – Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
A British war film released in 1997. It is directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha’s Story by Michael Nicholson. The film made its...
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Hanna Sköld – Granny’s Dancing on the Table (2015)
Eini grows up isolated from society in the woods together with her controlling and abusive father. Stories about her granny and Eini’s invincible fantasy enables her to create a world within, from...
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Gust Van den Berghe – Lucifer (2014)
On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Lupita’s brother Emanuel pretends he’s...
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Lütfi Akad – Hudutlarin Kanunu AKA The Law of the Border (1966)
Quote: Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape brought together two giants of Turkish cinema. Director Lütfi Ö. Akad...
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Lewis Seiler – You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939)
Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays mobster Frank Wilson, the heavy headlining this crime thriller that sprung from the pen of Sing-Sing’s warden himself! Based on the play “Chalked Out” by Warden Lewis...
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