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 »
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 »
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 »
The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games Read More »
13 PM (1969) Larisa Shepitko, Lev Kruglyy, Georgiy Vitsin, Anatoliy Papanov
Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit) Read More »
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »