The existential protagonist is a hungry, homeless, socially isolated, and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century. Read More »
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Intimacy (1988) Beppe Cino, Eva Grimaldi, Leonardo Treviglio, Tomas Arana
Softcore film about the love triangle between a young model/waitress, her boyfriend and her sadomadochistic lover. Read More »
Maladonna (1984) Bruno Gaburro, Paola Senatore, Maurice Poli, Claudia Cavalcanti
Since Osvaldo is a wealthy landowner, his beautiful wife Maria is forced to live in the countryside. Read More »
Kommunalka (2008) Françoise Huguier, Mano Siri
In Saint Petersburg in Russia, there still exists communal apartments, vestiges of the Soviet system. Read More »
Die Stossburg (1974) Franz Marischka, Peter Steiner, John Kraaykamp, Miriam Daniel
Archibald goes on a crusade of debauchery, leaving his wife, daughter and mistress locked up in chastity belts. Read More »
Siegfried und das sagenhafte Liebesleben der Nibelungen (1971) Adrian Hoven, David F. Friedman, Raimund Harmstorf, Sybil Danning, Heidy Bohlen
An erotic retelling of the legend of Siegfried. Read More »
Visitor of a Museum (1989) Konstantin Lopushanskiy, Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov
In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented Read More »
Road to the Stars (1957) Pavel Klushantsev, Georgi Solovyov, Leonid Khmara, Georgi Kulbush
Released one month after the launch of Sputnik 1, Klushantsev’s trailblazing visualisation of the past Read More »
The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004) Peter Bogdanovich, Justine Waddell, Michael Weatherly, Matthew Settle
Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood Read More »
Errors of Youth (1978) Boris Frumin, Nina Arkhipova, Lidiya Dorotenko, Nikolay Karachentsov
A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army. Read More »
Victoria (2013) Torun Lian, Iben Akerlie, Jakob Oftebro, Bill Skarsgård
A dramatizing of Knut Hamsun’s famous novel from 1898, Victoria, which is about the tragic Read More »
The House on Trubnaya (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
Clear Skies (1961) Grigoriy Chukhray, Nina Drobysheva, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Natalya Kuzmina
At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. Read More »
The Amphibian Man (1962) Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadiy Kazanskiy, Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Read More »
Winter’s Tale (1992) Éric Rohmer, Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti
Felicie and Charles have a serious if whirlwind holiday romance. Read More »