A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. Read More »
Tanganyika (1954) André De Toth, Van Heflin, Ruth Roman, Howard Duff
In 1903 Kenya, tough colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken Read More »
Dimka AKA Ya kupil papu (1963) Ilya Frez, Aleksei Zagorsky, Olga Lysenko, Vladimir Treshchalov
It’s the story of a boy named Dimka (Alyosha Zagorsky), the young son of a lovely young widowed woman (Olga Lysenko) who is taking work as a typist. Read More »
Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading Read More »
The Europeans (1979) James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe Read More »
The Hamburg Cell (2004) Antonia Bird, Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Read More »
Heat (1972) Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Joey, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent Read More »
Lady of the Stable AKA Umagoya no reijô (1991) Hisayasu Satô, Yukinojô, Mineo Sugiura, Rie Asai
Yuu is living with her Ryusei horse on the edge of the sea. Read More »
Epicentro (2020) Hubert Sauper, Oona Chaplin
Waves crashing over a breakwater at the edge of the sea—this dramatic opening image conveys the vital spirit Read More »
Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
Temple of the Golden Pavilion AKA Kinkakuji (1976) Yoichi Takabayashi, Saburô Shinoda, Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. Read More »
Albert (1985) Frantisek Vlácil, Jaroslav Filip, Jan Kacer, Peter Debnar
Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Read More »
La León (2007) Santiago Otheguy, Jorge Román
This visually stunning directorial debut is set in a place lost in time in northern Argentina. Read More »
The Proud Challenge (1962) Hokori takaki chosen
As the film begins, Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. Read More »