1971-1980

Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don’t want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who’s fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in Altman’s restaurant.Read More »

Original title: 青春の門　自立篇
This is the second film adaptation of Hiroyuki Itsuki’s epic novel of the same title, following the previous film “The Gate of Youth. Ibuki Shinsuke (Tanaka Ken) was born in the Chikuho coal mine in Kitakyushu and moved to Tokyo to enter university. Through his friendship and love with his drama club friends, a prostitute in Shinjuku, and his childhood friend Orie (Shinobu Otake), the film depicts the adolescent life of a dedicated young man.
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In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. A liberal teacher named Brasch “Helmut Griem” takes on V-man Körner “Martin Benrath” and loses his job.Read More »

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Leo, the owner of the stocking product “Discrete”, has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt. (imdb)Read More »

Nearly 1,000 people – even tiny babies and children – lay dead and rotting in the morning sun in the South American country of Guyana, all victims of sect leader Jim Jones, who had ordered the mass execution of his followers in the 1978 incident called by many “The Crime of the Century”.Read More »

The infamous haunted movie from the mad English painter David Fleas.Read More »

Baker’s apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
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An English tourist couple rent a boat to visit the island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the island apparently empty of adults. There are only children, who don’t speak but just stare at the strangers with eerie smiles on their faces. The English couple soon discovers that all the islands children have been possessed by a mysterious force, a kind of madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can’t defend themselves because, of course, nobody can kill a child…
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Schmid’s satire on 19th-century class relations is also a thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?Read More »