Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »
Duffer (1971) Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq, Kit Gleave, Erna May, Drama
An intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.
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Hao duo da mi / So Much Rice (2005) Hongqi Li, Dong Han, Yaodong Zhang, Drama
In a game of hide-and-seek with his wife, Mao suddenly decides to leave home. He moves in with Xiao Ri, an acquaintance living in the small town of Liaocheng and the two of them embark on a routine of weird amorous encounters. Read More »
La fidélité / Fidelity (2000) Andrzej Zulawski, Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children’s book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer. Read More »
That Touch of Mink (1962) Delbert Mann, Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
Cathy Timberlake is an old fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Read More »
La note bleue / Blue Note (1991) Andrzej Zulawski, Marie-France Pisier, Janusz Olejniczak, Sophie Marceau, Drama, Music, Romance
On a summer day of 1846, George Sand hosts a large party at her country house in Nohant. Among the celebrities present are the painter Eugene Delacroix, the opera singer Pauline Viardot, and Viardot’s lover, the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. Read More »
Nora Inu / Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Read More »
Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen (1966) Gianfranco Parolini, Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Barbara Frey, Adventure
A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess (1966) Akira Inoue, Raizô Ichikawa, Yaeko Mizutani, Ichirô Nakatani, Drama
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and plots diabolical schemes / ambushes without much success. Read More »
Menilmontant (1926) Dimitri Kirsanoff, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Short, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. Read More »