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François Truffaut – Baisers volés aka Stolen Kisses [+Extras] (1968)
SYNOPSIS: Stolen Kisses is the third installment of the ‘Antoine Doinel Series’, tracing the life of Truffaut’s filmic alter ego, Jean-Pierre Léaud. It is now 1968 and Antoine is 20. Having received...
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Otto Preminger – Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Quote: Daisy Kenyon stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a handsome, married attorney (Dana Andrews) and an unmarried Henry...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Return to Montauk (2017)
Quote: The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have...
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Joachim Trier – Thelma (2017)
Synopsis wrote: A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and...
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Charles Vidor – A Song to Remember (1945)
Quote: A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a ficitonalised life story of pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin. The film starred Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel...
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Yolanda Garcia Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra – Km. 0 aka Kilometer Zero (2000)
The title refers to Madrid’s central square (from which all distances within Spain are measured). Zero may also describe the state of the lives of 14 strangers. The stories of these fourteen collide...
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Béla Tarr &Ágnes Hranitzky – A londoni férfi AKA The Man from London (2007)
Quote: After 7 years Bela Tarr makes his return with an adaptation of a Georges Simenon’s story. That Tarr has chosen to make an adaptation of a noir novel means that he has chosen to make his own,...
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Rakhshan Bani Etemad – Nargess (1992)
Quote: A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law. In her fourth feature, director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad tells the tragic story of a love triangle. Afagh, an aging...
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Johan Renck – Downloading Nancy (2008)
Film is based on real events: link By Kam Williams News Blaze.com If you were contemplating suicide, but couldn’t quite summon up the nerve to do yourself in, where would you turn for help? In the...
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Claude Lelouch – Partir, revenir AKA Going and Coming Back (1985)
Quote: Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiograpy. She goes to a TV show called “Apostrophes”, hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from...
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Philippe Claudel – Une enfance AKA A Childhood (2015)
Quote: As summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on...
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Josef von Sternberg – Der blaue Engel aka The Blue Angel (1930)
Article: from ~ by James Steffen Immanuel Rath is a stuffy, disciplinarian professor who is shocked to discover his students passing around a postcard of Lola-Lola, a singer at The Blue Angel cabaret....
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Luchino Visconti – La Caduta Degli Dei (Götterdämmerung) aka The Damned (1969)
The Damned has often been regarded as the first of Visconti’s films described as “The German Trilogy”, followed by Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973). Henry Bacon (1998) specifically categorizes...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Arsenal (1928)
Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having survived a train wreck. His arrival coincides with a...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant AKA The...
Quote: One of Fassbinder’s most controversial films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is an obsessive, highly stylized look at the shifting power plays in relationships. Petra von Kant is an...
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Alfred Hitchcock – The Farmer’s Wife (129m version) (1928)
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the local single women....
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Various – Mundo Invisível (2012)
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. http://nitroflare.com/view/383C866DA892C54/Mundo_Invisivel_2012_HDTV.XviD.avi...
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Nana Dzhordzhadze – The Rainbowmaker [+Extra] (2008)
The Salzlipp twins grow up without their father. The boy and the girl are convinced he is an important superhero secret agent. But when he eventually comes home, it turns out that he is but a puny,...
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Gennadi Sidorov – Starukhi aka Old Women (2003)
Quote: This is a 2003 award-winning film about a group of old women living in an forgotten village somewhere in an endless sea of forest. They are living in poverty in these run-down wooden houses —...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel (1975)
Quote: Like all of Fassbinder’s best films, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is many things at once. It is simultaneously a deeply compassionate portrait of a working-class woman and a scathing satire of...
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