Two people are caught up in an all-consuming and forbidden love in this drama, the first feature from director Jean Chateuvert. Read More »
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Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten / The Creators of Shopping Worlds (2001) Harun Farocki, Documentary
Shopping is an everyday cultural act; it is inevitable, taken for granted. Entering into the world of shopping – the world of shopping malls – can be a Dantean voyage into hell or a redeeming ceremony of Communion. Read More »
The Incredible Melting Man (1977) William Sachs, Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey, Horror, Sci-Fi
“You’ve never seen anything til you’ve seen the Sun through the rings of Saturn,” exclaims Alex Rebar. Read More »
El bosque animado / The Enchanted Forest (1987) José Luis Cuerda, Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde, Comedy, Fantasy
In the fantastic world of the “bosque animado” meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
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No abras nunca esa puerta / Never Open That Door (1952) Carlos Hugo Christensen, Ángel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Nicolás Fregues, Mystery, Thriller
Two separate episodes that have in common the door which separates good from evil. Read More »
Justine / Justine and the Whip (1979) Jesús Franco, Alice Arno, Lina Romay, Gilda Arancio
A prostitute tries to explain why she’s involved in an S&M relationship with a hippie poet.
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Dong dong de jiàqi / A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Drama
When a young brother and sister spend a pivotal summer away from home, they are changed. Ting-Ting and Tung-Tung (Wang Qiguang) are children of the city Read More »
Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968) James Neilson, Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Comedy
In this follow-up to “The Trouble with Angels”, the wry but wise Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy For Girls accompanies a group of nuns including modern Read More »
Tajna starog tavana / The Secret of an Old Attic (1984) Vladimir Tadej, Mario Mirkovic, Jirí Guryca, Nina Petrovic, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
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Chico (2001) Ibolya Fekete, Sasa Anocic, Gyula Bodrogi, András Fésös, War, Drama
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
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