Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Read More »
Losing Balance AKA Draußen am See (2009) Felix Fuchssteiner, Elisa Schlott, Petra Kleinert, Michael Lott
Jessika, a precocious teenage girl with loving parents and a good-natured older sister Read More »
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge AKA La rivière du hibou (1961) Robert Enrico, Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away Read More »
You’re Not So Tough (1940) Joe May, The Dead End Kids, Nan Grey, Rosina Galli
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York’s East Side and running around the sunny Read More »
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Heist AKA Katte ni shiyagare! Goudatsu-keikaku (1995) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Show Aikawa, Kensuke Asakawa, Yoriko Dôguchi
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members Read More »
No Child of Mine (1997) Peter Kosminsky, Brooke Kinsella, Colin Salmon, Billy Geraghty
Thirteen-year-old Kerry is repeatedly sexually abused by several adults, including at one point her mother. Read More »
The War Zone (1999) Tim Roth, Ray Winstone, Annabelle Apsion, Kate Ashfield
Suddenly, the moody 15-year-old, Tom, and his 18-year-old sister, Jessie Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity AKA Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Patriotism AKA Yûkoku (1966) Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. Read More »
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me (2001) Nik Triantafyllidis, Frank Ash, Arthur Brown, Eric Burdon
Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians Read More »