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Yoen dokufuden: Hitokiri okatsu (1969) Nobuo Nakagawa, Junko Miyazono, Reiko Ônobuta, Kô Nishimura

Okatsu, the daughter of a katana instructor must avenge a judge who rapes and kills his father. Read More »
An Early Frost (1985) John Erman, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney

Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. Read More »
Internes Can’t Take Money (1937) Alfred Santell, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan

In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy Read More »
Romper Stomper (1992) Geoffrey Wright, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Read More »
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken Takakura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara

A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. Read More »
The Strangeness (1985) Melanie Anne Phillips, Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Rolf Theison

A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in Read More »
Fun and Games (1971) Ray Austin, Alexandra Hay, Sandor Elès, Harry Baird

The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school Read More »
Love in a Fallen City / Qing cheng zhi lian (1984) Ann Hui, Chow Yun-Fat, Cora Miao, Gerry Barnett

A cynical playboy pursues an introverted divorcee in the decadence of Hong Kong on the eve of the 1941 Japanese invasion. Read More »
Die Kathedrale der neuen Gefühle / The Cathedral of New Emotions (2006) Helmut Herbst

A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Read More »