An crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema Read More »
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The Man Who Stole the Sun AKA Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (1979) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Bunta Sugawara, Kenji Sawada, Kimiko Ikegami
A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. Read More »
Night Flight (1933) Clarence Brown
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there’s only one way to get the medicine Read More »
The Eye Above the Well AKA Het oog boven de put (1988) Johan van der Keuken
A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. Read More »
Amsterdam Global Village (1996) Johan van der Keuken, Julika Marijn
“I am far away on a distant journey through my own city”, filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. Read More »
Court (2014) Chaitanya Tamhane, Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
A sewerage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. Read More »
A Prayer For The Dying (1987) Mike Hodges, Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates
Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. Read More »
Painted Fire AKA Chihwaseon (2002) Kwon-taek Im, Choi Min-sik, Sung-Ki Ahn, Ho-jeong Yu
The struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897 Read More »
The Beyond AKA E tu vivrai nel terrore! L’aldilà (1981) Lucio Fulci, Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale
From legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci come the ultimate classic of supernatural horror. Read More »
Hong Kong Godfather AKA Jian dong xiao xiong (1985) Lung Wei Wang, Ka-Yan Leung, Norman Chu, Shu-Yuan Hsu
After receiving a life imprisonment sentence for a NY Chinatown massacre, Jia Shi Lan, alias Hei Lan Read More »