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Here’s a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be. “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” is about a clash between two cultures (British and Japanese) and two styles of military service (patriotic and pragmatic). That would be enough for any movie, and there are scenes when it is enough, and the movie works pretty well.Read More »
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968’s Olimpic games’ to develop normally.Read More »
A group of drug addicts in the 1970’s help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. A highly superstitious Bob and wife Diane love to do various pharmaceutical drugs like dilaudid, morphine and cocaine. To maintain the habit, they steal from pharmacies with the help of another couple. A cop that eventually gets too close for comfort, which causes the crew to move their operation to another town. Before long, one of the crew dies of an overdose; the body has to be moved from their hotel room to their car. The problem is that there is an unexpected sheriff’s convention assembling at the hotel where they’re staying. Bob believes that one of his superstitious beliefs caused this incident and is scared into joining a methadone program. Leaving his past proves harder than he anticipated, though.Read More »
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When Joji Hibiki’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) father is dying he tells his son of a deep dark secret that sends Joji reeling into another time, to his childhood. His father tells him that he is not his father and that Joji’s is not his son. He learns that his real name is Joji HINOHARA and that he was a child who he kidnapped, one of two twin brothers and a sister now blind still living in Japan. Soon Joji is in flight to Japan his homeland from America, but not before learning of the chilling fate his real parents suffered one night under mysterious circumstances. He also learns of his twin brothers recent and supposedly random death. Read More »
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In a industrial town one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to the agile director Todor, his successful policy of “World breakthrough” the whole town look forward to progress and incredibly quick prosperity in 1966. The director’s driver Milutin is the center of absurdly dramatic relations in which base manipulation dominates. His lonely, consequent, and reasonable admiration for Todor, his honesty and goodwill bring him into situations to which he can’t and won’t adapt to, nor will he quit…Read More »
This historical drama features the first winter spent in Canada by a family of Irish immigrants deep in the Ottawa Valley. The year is 1830.
In their first Canadian winter an Irish immigrant family is finding life a struggle at the best of times. Now, with the father away for work during the winter, the mother and the children labor for a bare existence. Then tragedy strikes and the young survivors must call upon their inner strengths to make it through the unforgiving season.Read More »
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.Read More »
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To explain to his students the atmosphere in the 1930’s Nazi-Germany, history teacher Burt Ross initiates a daring experiment. He declares himself leader of a new movement, called ‘The Wave’. Inspired, he proclaims ideas about Power, Discipline and Superiority. His students are strikingly willing to follow him. Soon the entire school is under the spell of ‘The Wave’. Anyone who refuses to be a part of the Movement, faces threats or worse. Ross himself gets carried away by his own experiment. Or has it turned into something more than an experiment? A climax is unavoidable, resulting in a hard lesson for both Ross and his students…Read More »
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Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German – Czechoslovakia border.Read More »