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Amleto Palermi – Cavalleria rusticana (1939)
PLOT & Review: (Contains some spoilers) Quote: This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It’s...
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Ofir Raul Graizer – The Cakemaker (2017)
Quote: Thomas, a young and talented German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who dies in a car crash. Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers. Keeping his secret for...
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Shinya Tsukamoto – Vital (2004)
Quote: A beautiful meditation on love, memory and mortality. After surviving a car accident which kills his girlfriend, an amnesia-struck student (Tadanobu Asano) returns to medical school and...
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Edward H. Griffith – Another Language (1933)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson Given the usual pedestal upon which mothers were placed by MGM head Louis Mayer, it’s all the more amazing that Mayer gave the go-ahead for Another Language. Louise Closser...
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Marcel Carné – Juliette ou La clef des songes AKA Juliette, or Key of Dreams...
Synopsis: Having been caught stealing money from his employer to pay for a holiday with his girlfriend Juliette, Michel finds himself in a prison cell. He falls into a deep sleep and awakes to find...
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Roland Kibbee – The Midnight Man (1974)
The Midnight Man is one of the eerier and more startling mystery films of its period, sustaining for nearly two hours a mood that veers very carefully between seductive, quiet lyricism and lurking...
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Helene Hegemann – Axolotl Overkill (2017)
Quote: Mifti, age 16, lives in Berlin with a cast of characters including her half-siblings; their rich, self-involved father; and her junkie friend Ophelia. As she mourns her recently deceased...
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Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass – The Puffy Chair (2005)
From Time Out London ‘I’ve got about 50 fuckin’ thoughts and strategies about how some shit is and I don’t know fuckin’ shit.’ Such is the lament of Josh (Mark Duplass, who co-wrote the script with...
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Jean Grémillon – La Petite Lise (1930)
Jean Grémillon’s first talkie, the 1930 LA PETITE LISE, is anything but talky. While opening and closing with soulful afro-Latin strains, something just above silence reigns throughout the film....
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Muzaffer Özdemir – Yurt aka Home (2011)
The first feature to be written and directed by actor Muzaffer Ozdemir, best known for his roles in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Small Town, Clouds Of May and Distant (for which he won the Cannes Best...
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Jirí Menzel – Postriziny AKA Cutting It Short (1981)
Quote: Short Cut is a comedy revealed more in the acting and witty dialogue than in the simple premise of the story itself: how the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal was born. Actually, the story is, in...
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István Szabó – Bizalom aka Confidence (1980)
In WW2 Hungary, hard-bitten resistance fighter János and naive young mother Kata are thrown together in an attempt to escape the Nazis. Compelled to pose as husband and wife, they are forced into a...
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Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt – Im Spinnwebhaus (2015)
Jonas is already head of the family at just 12 years of age. He has been helping his two younger siblings and supporting his mother, Sabine, since his father left. Sabine is very loving towards her...
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Franz Müller – Die Liebe der Kinder (2009)
Quote: Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love. 0.99GB | 01:23:50 | 672×384 | avi http://nitroflare.com/view/292FE5E459BDE05/Die_Liebe_der_Kinder.avi...
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Yakov Protazanov – Belyy oryol AKA The White Eagle (1928)
Synopsis: Lash of the Czar was one of several English-language titles for the Russian film Belyi Orel. The film was based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Michurin (1948)
The film is about the life and work of the prominent Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. Reports of gardener-Michurin’s extraordinary experiments with plants reach far beyond the borders of the Russian...
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Costas Ferris – Rembetiko (1983)
Considered to be one of the most powerful and emotional Greek movies, Rembetiko focuses on the life of an individual woman, a real person, and through her personal story, it retells the story of...
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Yahya Alabdallah – Al Juma Al Akheira AKA The Last Friday (2011)
Quote: Isolation and loneliness are the dominant feelings in Youssef’s life after getting divorced from his wife who took the only son they have to live with her. He counts the days till he sees his...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Lerd AKA A Man of Integrity (2017)
A former university professor now living as a goldfish farmer in a Northern Iranian village, Reza quietly tends to his own affairs alongside his wife Hadis, a principal at a local girls’ school, and...
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Eva Dahr & Eva Isaksen – Brennende blomster AKA Burning Flowers (1987)
Hermann is working as a delivery boy for a florist after school time. One day he is delivering a bouquet of flowers to Rosa Stern, a woman in the beginning of her 40’s who live behind heavy curtains...
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