PLOT: A fascinating portrait of life in Manila’s corrupt, teeming and polluted urban jungle, Manila in the Claws of Light tells the story of Julio, a 21-year-old fisherman who arrives in the Filipino capital looking for his girlfriend. Immediately robbed of what little cash he has, he scrabbles to survive, drifting through a number of temporary jobs, while wandering the city in search of his beloved.Read More »
The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ringleader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam’s shows always feature her bodacious nieces Susanna and Karen, who perform in everything from striptease to S&M acts. Eventually, Karen meets a nice rich gentleman and runs away with him whereas Susanna falls in love with a deceptive airport cargo handler.Read More »
Synopsis
A grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers is being prepared in a restaurant, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
Berlin Golden Bear Award Winner 1978Read More »
Synopsis:
‘After an unsuccessful robbery, Eric Lambrecht is arrested and sent to prison for twenty years. The head warden Isnar offers to allow Eric to escape if he is willing to undertake a small task for him. He must break into the safe in the director’s office, a safe that is thought to contain a huge sum of money…’
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Polish Silesia, the 1930’s. A coal mine is slated for shutdown. Scared of losing their jobs, the miners declare a sit-in. Young miner Jaś, a happy husband and father of two little boys, wants to go home, but overcomes his fear and stays with his fellow miners. The mine’s management tries to cheat the striking miners, promising to negotiate with the worker leaders if the workers leave the mine. The families demonstrate their solidarity outside. The man leading them is Erwin, a former Silesian insurrectionist. Silesian bands play at the mine gates, demonstrations are held. Siersza, leader of the strike, sends strike committee member Grudniok to Warsaw, to present the miners’ demands to the government. Grudniok returns with bad news. They told him in Warsaw that the mine was owned by a German, and the Polish government had no way of influencing his decision…Read More »
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In a Japanese women’s prison, the female prisoner Matsu, nicknamed Scorpion, is treated with extraordinary cruelty and sadism by the warden Goba. While being transferred, she is able to affect an escape along with six other women. Leading them across the wastelands, all the while pursued by Goba, they take their revenge on the men who seek to abuse them.Read More »
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Anna is a teacher and her husband Marek is an engineer. They both face moral dilemmas at work: Marek’s boss wants him to help get rid of a renowned engineer from their company; Anna refuses to support the false accusation of her student.Read More »
A frontier feud breaks out on the border of Mexico when Gangster Hagan’s brothers are wiped out whilst conducting a raid on the Nevada Kid’s family. Hagen (Kinski) orders his henchmen to destroy the Hamiltons, but doesn’t reckon with the ‘Kid’ (Cameron), who on returning from war teams up with a bounty hunter to hunt down the bandit gang.Read More »
Hitler A Career is Joachim Fest’s (who had written the definitive history of Hitler and movie based on his book) controversial German documentary film about the inevitability of Hitler and Fascism within Germany.
Narrated by Stephen Murray, it tells the story of Hitler’s rise to power from a German perspective; and Hitler’s uncanny ability to satisfy the German people’s emotional and psychological needs.
But how did this unknown Austrian boy seduce the German people into becoming a Nazi state?
Why did Germany follow Hitler to the brink of destruction?Read More »