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Ferzan Ozpetek – La Finestra di fronte aka The Window Opposite (2003)
Giovanna is a bookeeper in a company which packs chickens. She is married to a man who has a precarious job. First she starts being curious about a young man who lives in the block opposite hers, and...
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Cuore Sacro AKA Sacred Heart (2005)
Quote: Written by Boyd van Hoeij Thursday, 20 April 2006 Nothing less than a double suicide from a dazzling height initiates the fifth and by far best film of Italo-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek....
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Sergei Parajanov & Dodo Abashidze – Ashug-Karibi aka The Hoary Legends of the...
Synopsis: Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights – but not before he’s...
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Lino Brocka – Maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag AKA Manila in the Claws of Light...
Quote: Manila: In the Claws of Darkness is the most impressive of his films noirs, made with bows to the American cinema, to Italian neo-realism and to his own country’s tradition of star-driven...
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René Le Hénaff – Le colonel Chabert (1943)
Synopsis Paris, 1817. The wealthy Countess Ferraud is distressed when she begins to receive letters from her husband, Colonel Chabert, who was reported to have died during the Napoleonic wars ten...
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Dharmasena Pathiraja – Soldadu Unnahe AKA Old Soldier (1981)
Though veteran director Dharmasena Pathiraja was noted for his leftist leanings, he said that the Marxists were “out of touch with the realties of the people, their material conditions, power, and...
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Mitchell Leisen – Song of Surrender (1949)
Plot Though her acting range was limited, Wanda Hendrix was cute as all get out, and this cuteness is pretty much all that’s required from her in Song of Surrender. The film is set in a small town of...
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Yang Zhang – Kang rinpoche AKA Paths of the Soul (2015)
Quote: Docu-drama follows the journey of a group of Tibetans on a pilgrimage to Lasa, the holy capital of Tibet. The journey covers 1,200 km on foot, in a continuous repetition of prostrating one’s...
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Adilkhan Yerzhanov – Chuma v aule Karatas AKA The Plague at the Karatas...
Quote: Yerzhanov is a strong voice of the new Kazakh cinema. The story When a young mayor arrives in Karatas, a remote village in Kazakhstan, he finds a large part of the population ill. He recognises...
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Haile Gerima – Mirt Sost Shi Amit aka Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
From IMDb: “This film is set in Ethiopia. A family works on a wealthy,cruel landowner’s farm. The landowner accuses them of being lazy and trying to get his money without earning it. The only person...
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Vittorio Gassman & Francesco Rosi – Kean aka Kean, Genio e Sregolatezza aka...
Synopsis Edmund Kean is a popular and flamboyant British actor of the nineteenth century, addicted however to vices and in debt. He argues with the Prince of Wales, his companion in intemperance, the...
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Zhangke Jia – Tian zhu ding AKA A Touch of Sin (2013)
Quote: An angry miner revolts against the corruption of his village leaders. A migrant worker at home for the New Year discovers the infinite possibilities a firearm can offer. A pretty receptionist...
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Lisandro Alonso – Liverpool (2008)
Plot : A boat worker, Farrel (Juan Fernandez), spends his shore leave traveling from the port city to a rural community in the mountains build around an old saw mill. Ostensibly traveling to see his...
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Kaige Chen – Sacrifice (2010)
Storyline Sacrifice (Orphan of Zhao Family): To save the only child of the Zhao Family, whose whole clan is massacred at the hands of a nefarious minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son, and later...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Acht Stunden sind kein Tag AKA Eight Hours Don’t...
Starring: Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder had been making feature films for three years – and already amassed a...
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Pawel Pawlikowski – Zimna wojna AKA Cold War (2018)
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. 4.37GB | 1h 28mn | 960×720 |...
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Alan Parker – Shoot the Moon (1982)
Quote: All George Dunlap (Albert Finney) wants to do is to give his 13-year-old daughter a typewriter for her birthday. It is hardly the impossible dream; it isn’t even an unreasonable request. But...
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Aureliano Amadei – 20 sigarette AKA 20 Cigarettes (2010)
Imdb .com wrote: An assistant director working in Iraq finds himself caught up in the attack on the Nassiriya army barracks. 700MB | 1:34:19 | 624×336 | avi...
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Constantin Popescu – Pororoca (2017)
One sunny day at the park, five-year-old Maria and her brother Ilie are running around the busy playground. Dad Tudor drinks coffee and chats to the other parents. Everyone is keeping an eye out and...
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Özcan Alper – Gelecek Uzun Sürer AKA Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Sumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the...
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