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Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki / Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) Teruo Ishii, Tetsurô Tamba, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Action, Drama, Thriller, Erotic
Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii directs this deranged, over-the-top adaptation from the original manga by Kazuo Koike about a privileged samurai gang in charge of recruiting women for prostitution in old Edo’s pleasure quarter. Read More »
Mannen från Mallorca / Man from Majorca (1984) Bo Widerberg, Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Håkan Serner, Action, Crime, Thriller
In Stockholm, on St. Lucy’s feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Read More »
Altri tempi / Times Gone By (1952) Alessandro Blasetti, Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Riva, Enzo Staiola, Comedy, Drama, Music
The mood is set with the opening with excerpts from the Excelsior Ball, a famous ballet at the turn of the century that heralded the advances of the upcoming century Read More »
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) Felipe Cazals, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Adventure, Crime, Drama
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators Read More »
Tízezer nap / Ten Thousand Days (1967) Ferenc Kósa, Tibor Molnár, Gyöngyi Bürös, János Koltai, Drama
The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. Read More »
Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Biography, Drama, History
In September1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Valparaiso with his friend Terry Simon to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York with him. Read More »
Faustrecht der Freiheit / Fox and His Friends (1975) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Drama, Romance
Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Read More »
Shi ye sheng / On Trial / Job Hunter (1980) Clarence Yiu-leung Fok, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Leslie Cheung, Paul Bo-Law Chung, Drama
Danny Chan stars as a rich kid who excels in music. Without the support of his father, who thinks his younger brother Paul (Paul Chung) is doing much better, Danny decides to launch his music career alone. Read More »
La fille de l’eau / The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) Jean Renoir, Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne, Drama, Romance
After her father’s death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. Read More »