Sixteen year old Bibi comes to her aunt Toni’s boarding house where she is seduced by lesbian women. Read More »
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Cats on a Pedal Boat (2011) Yuval Mendelson, Nadav Hollander, Nitay Dagan, Dana Frider, Gidi Gov
A high school couple, accompanied by a fat, ginger cat, travel to the Yarkon River to celebrate their six month anniversary with a romantic pedal boat trip. Read More »
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov Read More »
Kotch (1971) Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr
Wanting to avoid settling in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son’s family. Read More »
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) John Landis, Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby
Madcap spoof, a collection of comedy skits includes the Kung-Fu parody, “A Fistful Of Yen” and “Catholic School Girls In Trouble.” Read More »
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) Patricia Rozema, Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle’s art gallery. Read More »
Crazed Fruit (1956) Kô Nakahira, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. Read More »
Girl with Green Eyes (1964) Desmond Davis, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave
An awkward young Irish farm girl Kate Brady moves to Dublin and shares a room with funny Read More »
River of Grass (1994) Kelly Reichardt, Lisa Bowman, Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell
Near the Everglades, the “river of grass,” lives Cozy (named for her father’s favorite drummer), lonely, in a loveless marriage, ignoring her kids. Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »