
Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province’s notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. Read More »
Tag Archives: Switzerland
La Naissance de l’amour / The Birth of Love (1993) Philippe Garrel, Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Drama

Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Read More »
Le livre de Marie / The Book of Mary (1985) Anne-Marie Miéville, Bruno Cremer, Aurore Clément, Rebecca Hampton, Short, Drama

Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. His parents will separate. The perception of his universe is profoundly disturbed. Read More »
Après la réconciliation / After the Reconciliation (2000) Claude Perron, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jacques Spiesser, Drama

Two women and two men meet, converse with one another and ask questions, even about the use of words, but especially about fundamental matters concerning happiness and love. Read More »
The Insulted and the Injured / Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye (1991) Andrey Eshpay, Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasiya Vyazemskaya, Drama, Romance

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart. Read More »
Schatten der Engel / Shadow of Angels (1976) Daniel Schmid, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer, Drama

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. Read More »
Voodoo Passion / Der Ruf der blonden Göttin (1977) Jess Franco, Nanda Van Bergen, Ada Tauler, Karine Gambier, Crime, Drama, Erotic

Susan arrives in Haiti to live with her husband Jack, who lives with a lesbian housekeeper and Olga, a nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack’s sister. Read More »
The Search (1948) Fred Zinnemann, Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Drama, War

A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. Read More »
Weiser (2001) Wojciech Marczewski, Marek Kondrat, Krystyna Janda, Juliane Köhler, Mystery, Drama

A man struggles to come to terms with a mystery that has haunted him throughout his adult life in this drama from Poland. Read More »
Girls who Play Alone / Mädchen ohne Männer (1975) Erwin C. Dietrich, Martina Domingo, Uschi Karnat, Ursula Maria Schaefer, Comedy, Sexploitation, Erotic

Rita (Rita Waldenberg), Elsa (Uschi Karnat) and Ursula (Ursula Maria Schaefer) share a room in an all girls boarding school located in a beautiful villa. Read More »
Köpek / Koepek (2015) Esen Isik, Çagla Akalin, Baris Atay, Salih Bademci, Drama

An ordinary day in the mega-city of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. Read More »
Chrieg / War (2014) Simon Jaquemet, Sascha Gisler, Benjamin Lutzke, Ella Rumpf, Drama

The whole world is against Fifteen-year-old Matteo. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe.
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Je vous salue, Marie / Hail Mary (1985) Jean-Luc Godard, Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Drama

In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father’s petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab.
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Mangrove (2011) Frédéric Choffat, Julie Gilbert, Lucia, Patrick Pasquier, Vimala Pons, Drama

A young woman travels with her child to a remote coast on the Pacific in southern Mexico where she grew up. She had lived with her father in a house on the beach until her beloved, a young fisherman from the neighbouring village died a brutal death, causing her to flee. Years later she returns to make peace with the ghosts of the past.
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The Bed Hostesses / Die Bett-Hostessen (1973) Erwin C. Dietrich, Ingrid Steeger, Karin Hofmann, Christa Free, Comedy, Erotic

Young women make for the best hosts in this sexploitation film from Erwin Dietrich. A series of short stories that show young women in various sexual situations who enjoy playing host to their male and female visitors.
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