
“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 »
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El bonaerense (2002) Pablo Trapero, Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy

Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. Read More »
Time of Love / Nobat e Asheghi (1995) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar

Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. Read More »
Hassan and Nayima AKA Hasan wa Naimah (1959) Henry Barakat, Muharram Fuad, Suad Husni, Mohammed Tawfik

Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt

King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Morphine AKA Morfiy (2008) Aleksey Balabanov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. Read More »
Games of Clouds and Rain AKA Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie (2013) Benjamin de Lajarte, Simon Yam, Heling Li, Audrey Dana

Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova

For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
Ride Lonesome (1959) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts

A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Read More »
Machuca (2004) Andrés Wood, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Read More »