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Wuthering Heights (1988) Yoshishige Yoshida, Yûsaku Matsuda, Yûko Tanaka, Rentarô Mikuni
This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte’s classic novel, and Georges Bataille’s analyzes Read More »
The Rose (1979) Mark Rydell, Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest
Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. Read More »
The Power Of Emotion (1983) Alexander Kluge, Hannelore Hoger, Edgar M. Böhlke
The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. Read More »
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Read More »
The Brutalisation of Franz Blum (1974) Reinhard Hauff, Jürgen Prochnow, Eike Gallwitz, Burkhard Driest
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. Read More »
The Little Foxes (1941) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Read More »
She and He (1963) Susumu Hani, Sachiko Hidari, Kikuji Yamashita, Eiji Okada
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman Read More »
Polar (1984) Jacques Bral, Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist Read More »
Death Knows No Time (1969) León Klimovsky, Guglielmo Spoletini, Wayde Preston, Agnès Spaak
A Mexican peasant evicted from his land becomes an enraged outlaw. Read More »
The Erl King (1931) Marie-Louise Iribe, Joë Hamman, Mary Costes, Rosa Bertens
A young man races to save his son’s life, but death – incarnated in the child’s imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly. Read More »
The Crossing of the Rhine (1960) André Cayatte, Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. Read More »
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985) Fernando E. Solanas, Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá
In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. Read More »
A City of Sadness (1989) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung Young Chen
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers. Read More »
River of Gold (1998) Paulo Rocha, Isabel Ruth, Lima Duarte, Joana Bárcia
Carolina (Isabel Ruth), an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river Read More »