In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he’s amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. Read More »
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Huis-clos / No Exit (1954) Jacqueline Audry, Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Drama
Jacqueline Audry usually approached her text with great reverence, but here she was revisionist to the point of destruction. Read More »
Yumurta / Egg (2007) Semih Kaplanoglu, Nejat Isler, Saadet Aksoy, Ufuk Bayraktar, Drama
Poet Yusuf learns of his mother’s death and returns to his hometown after many years. In his mother’s house his young cousin Ayla awaits him and informs Read More »
Les Misérables (1998) Bille August, Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Crime, Drama, History
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. Read More »
Shou xing xin ren lei / Naked Poison (2000) Man Kei Chin, Sammuel Leung, Gwennie Tam, Sophie Chin Man Ngan, Horror, Thriller
A lurid thriller that mixes the erotic with the fantastic, NAKED POISON is the story of Ah Man, a loner who has only one human friend Read More »
Maniac (1980) William Lustig, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. Read More »
Gan / Wild Geese / The Mistress (1953) Shirô Toyoda, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jûkichi Uno, Drama, Romance
A young woman is forced to become a mistress to a married, middle-aged man in order to support her father, in this meiji period drama directed by Shiro Toyoda. Read More »
Heute abend und morgen früh (1980) Dietmar Hochmuth, Rolf Hoppe, Christine Schorn, Drama
The film features a woman in her mid 30s who drifts through the city on a Friday night and lazes around in the apartment with her husband the next morning. Read More »
Utolsó idök / Lost Times (2009) Áron Mátyássy, József Kádas, Teréz Vass, Eszter Földes, Drama
1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. Read More »
The Evil That Men Do (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Action, Drama, Thriller
Clement Moloch (Joseph Maher (R.I.P.))is a doctor (dubbed “the doctor”), but instead of using his skills to heal; he uses them to torture. Read More »
Pietro (2010) Daniele Gaglianone, Diego Canteri, Pietro Casella, Francesco Lattarulo, Drama
Pietro lives in an anonymous suburb. He has a job, a home and a family. His job consists in distributing leaflets on the streets. Read More »
Good Luck Miss Wyckoff (1979) Marvin J. Chomsky, Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Drama
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and an young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
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The Jigsaw Murders (1989) Jag Mundhra, Chad Everett, Michelle Johnson, Michael Sabatino, Thriller
Detective DaVonzo and his young partner Elliott are putting together a murder mystery with the help of a jigsaw puzzle but will all the pieces be together in time to save DaVonzo’s daughter? Read More »
En ville / Iris in Bloom (2011) Valérie Mréjen, Bertrand Schefer, Lola Créton, Stanislas Merhar, Adèle Haenel, Drama
Iris is 16 and finishing her teenage years in a small provincial town when she meets Jean, a 40 year old photographer from Paris. Read More »
The Bellboy (1960) Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Comedy
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. Read More »