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Diario napoletano / Neapolitan Diary (1992) Francesco Rosi, Simona Caramelli, Pietro Bontempo, Documentary, Crime, History
A fascinating return to the same issues done in a semi-docu style. The ‘story’ joins Rosi as he fights his way through impossible city traffic to a school of architecture to host a discussion of the older movie. Read More »
Mr. Vampire II (1986) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Biao Yuen, Fat Chung, Comedy, Horror
Modern grave robbing “archeologists” find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman, and their child. Read More »
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) Douglas Hickox, Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Sloane, a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath’s household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. Read More »
Nella città l’inferno / …and the Wild Wild Women (1959) Renato Castellani, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Myriam Bru, Drama
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Read More »
The Moscow Elegy (1987) Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, Aleksandr Sokurov, Art-house, Documentary
A film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.
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The Strange World of Mojica Marins (2001) André Barcinski, Ivan Finotti, José Mojica Marins, Conceição Marins, Isaac Flor, Documentary
The first documentary on José Mojica Marins’s (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. Read More »
The Night Holds Terror (1955) Andrew L. Stone, Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare. Read More »
Paradaisu byû / Paradise View (1985) Go Takamine, Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Togawa, Haruomi Hosono, Arthouse, Fantasy
Reishu quits a job on a US military base; while mulling over his future he catches snakes, sticks numbers on ants and gets village girl Nabi pregnant. Read More »
La machine à découdre (1986) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Patricia Barzyk, Pierre Semmler, Comedy, Thriller
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children. Read More »
Mr. Vampire (1985) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-Ho Chin, Ricky Hui, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A ghost sucks the life-force out of a one of Uncle Nine’s student. The other is slowly turned into a vampire. Read More »
Heroic Trio 2 – Executioners (1993) Siu-Tung Ching, Johnnie To, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Set some time after the original ‘Heroic Trio’ the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. Read More »
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978) José Mojica Marins, Jorge Peres, Magna Miller, Horror
A psychiatric doctor is driven insane plagued by nightmarish visions of Zé do Caixão’s (Coffin Joe) subterranean world of bizarre horror. Read More »
Heroic Trio (1993) Johnnie To, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Action, Fantasy
The all-female Heroic Trio are Tung (Wonder Woman), Chat (Thief Catcher), a mercenary, and Ching (Invisible Woman). Read More »
The Leech Woman (1960) Edward Dein, Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
When a very old African woman offers an ambitious endocrinologist the secret of eternal youth, he decides to take his estranged and no-longer-young-and-beautiful wife along with him on the safari. Read More »