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A Moment of Romance II AKA Tin joek yau ching II: Tin cheung dei gau (1993) Benny Chan, Aaron Kwok, Chien-Lien Wu, Roger Kwok
A street racer encounters a mainland courtesan under an extraordinary circumstances. Read More »
A Moment of Romance AKA Tin joek jau ching (1990) Benny Chan, Andy Lau, Chien-Lien Wu, Kingman Cho
A story of a bank heist that almost ended in disaster (for the robbers) until their getaway driver Read More »
Buddies AKA A un (1989) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Eiji Bandô, Sumiko Fuji, Yasuko Tomita
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love. Read More »
Ruslan and Ludmila AKA Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) Aleksandr Ptushko, Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov
Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. Read More »
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998) Michael Di Jiacomo, Tim Roth, Mili Avital, Rod Steiger
Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about three French filmmakers Read More »
Rasputin AKA Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
Avida (2006) Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, Anselme, Fernando Arrabal, Anne Benett
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire’s dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. Read More »
Platform AKA Zhantai (2000) Zhangke Jia, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang
Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers Read More »
Another Heaven AKA Anaza hevun (2000) Jôji Iida, Yôsuke Eguchi, Miwako Ichikawa, Takashi Kashiwabara
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim Read More »
Fate of a Man AKA Sudba cheloveka (1959) Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. Read More »
Red Beard AKA Akahige (1965) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide Read More »
Focus (1996) Satoshi Isaka, Tadanobu Asano, Keiko Unno, Akira Hirai
A small and intrusive reporting crew are reporting on the actions of a man who monitors transmissions in a documentary they are filming. Read More »
Ditch AKA Dobu (1954) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Jûkichi Uno
Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »
Home from the Sea AKA Furusato (1972) Yôji Yamada, Hisashi Igawa, Chieko Baishô, Chishû Ryû
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. Read More »