Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family Read More »
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The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode / Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Fuji, Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization Read More »
Celestine, Maid at Your Service / Célestine… bonne à tout faire (1974) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Howard Vernon, Olivier Mathot
At the beginning of the 20th century: A police raid broke into a clandestine brothel in which Célestine is a boarder. Read More »
It Happens Every Thursday (1953) Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Frank McHugh
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down Read More »
Memories of My Body / Kucumbu tubuh indahku (2018) Garin Nugroho, Muhammad Khan, Raditya Evandra, Rianto
In Center Java Juno, a pre-teen abandoned by his father, joins a Lengger dance centre Read More »
Forecast: Zero / Predpoved: Nula (1966) Elo Havetta, Iva Janzurová, Jan Bartos, Gabriela Zoubková
A tram pasted with posters travels through Prague. The mounted loudspeakers invite passers-by to a series Read More »
Queen of the Tartars / La regina dei tartari (1960) Sergio Grieco, Chelo Alonso, Jacques Sernas, Mario Petri
An orphan (Chelo Alonso), raised by a foreign tribe, becomes a warrior queen Read More »
La donna del fiume / The River Girl (1954) Mario Soldati, Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury, Lise Bourdin
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Read More »
Summertree (1971) Anthony Newley, Michael Douglas, Jack Warden, Brenda Vaccaro
Jerry, not a member of the ‘protest generation’ but is instead, an ‘All American boy,’ Read More »
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse / Una libélula para cada muerto (1975) León Klimovsky, Paul Naschy, Erika Blanc, Ángel Aranda
A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. Read More »