
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples Read More »
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Rape Shot Momoes Lips / Rape shot: Momoe no kuchibiru (1979) Katsuhiko Fujii, Minako Mizushima, Yûko Asuka, Noriaki Abe

Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Back to Back, Face to Face / Bei kao bei, lian dui lian (1994) Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang, Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. Read More »
The Puppeteer / Dom Roberto (1962) Ernesto de Sousa, Raul Solnado, Glicínia Quartin, Luís Cerqueira

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity – what coins the people of Lisbon’s Read More »
Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô

A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y chocolate (1993) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío, Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra

Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist Read More »
Black Boots, Leather Whip / Botas negras, látigo de cuero (1983) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Asunción Calero

Al Pereira, a type of dubious morality, is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man Read More »
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012) Peter Greenaway, Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham, Hendrik Aerts

The life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. Read More »
Amorosa (1986) Mai Zetterling, Stina Ekblad

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940) during the period Read More »
Bullets or Ballots (1936) William Keighley, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Read More »
Au Revoir Mon Amour / Ho yat gwan joi loi (1991) Tony Au, Anita Mui, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Hidekazu Akai

Two former lovers are reunited in war-torn Shanghai during its occupation by Japanese troops in World War 2. Read More »
El Alamein – The Line of Fire / El Alamein – La linea del fuoco (2002) Enzo Monteleone, Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. Read More »
Gallivant (1996) Andrew Kotting

When British filmmaker Andrew Kotting decided to tour the perimeter of Great Britain Read More »
The Death of Empedocles / Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (1987) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Martina Baratta

The tragedy of the death of Empedocles, legislator in Acient Greece. Read More »