1981-1990

The old house acquired by Bjorg (Lilja Thorisdottir) and her husband Petur (Johann Sigurdarson) slowly takes on menacing proportions once Bjorg is left alone for a few days while Petur is away on business. While she is in the house, she experiences terrible visions of faces screaming — are these ghosts, or unclear memories from her own past? The situation continues to deteriorate, until it looks as though Petur will never return in time to help Bjorg out of her terrors — if he could help at all. The high level of cinematic craft in this film is testified by its engrossing drama, all accomplished on a budget of U.S. $270,000.Read More »

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This ambitious TV movie by Jane Campion was heralded at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival as the arrival of a major new filmmaking voice. Two Friends’s screenplay, by renowned Australian novelist Helen Garner, is articulate, assured, and enthralling. The film begins in the present, when teenage friends Louise and Kelly, once inseparable, have already grown apart. Louise is in high school, gets good grades, and has a typical love-hate relationship with her divorced mother. Kelly, in bleached hair and punk gear, lives with friends at the beach and is experimenting with drugs and casual relationships.Read More »

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Delusion 1: A former TV star and a run-down actress live in the same apartment. Over time their relationship has deteriorated and, to save it, they turn to an attractive presenter. But their strategy will only complicate matters. Delusion 2: A young married couple is stunned by a newspaper story. The arrival of some fiery neighbors influences them in such a way that they will end up becoming the protagonists of the news themselves. Delusion 3: A well-known antiquarian holds a party at his house, attended by a young man of haunting beauty. The two start a romance that will reach unsuspected limits.Read More »

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In the 19th century, a Japanese prostitute is about to move to America with her lover when he dies. Saddened, she moves to America alone and becomes a succesful prostitute. However, her dead lover reappears on her knee as a mole, which she kisses. Her customers, feeling that this is weird, abandon her; she asks her husband to return to the spirit world, on the condition that she would never marry again. He returns, but a few months later she marries an American millionaire. On the night of their honeymoon, the prostitute’s vagina is possessed by the vengeful spirit of the dead lover, which causes the millionaire’s penis great pain…Read More »

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Set in a country estate beside the river Alz, the focus on this intellectual German drama, an adaptation of a text by Goethe, is on the complex interaction and conversations between four people involved with the film industry. Edouard is a restless filmmaker who is planning to make a film out of his fiancee Charlotte’s upcoming first book. She is an actress and will star in the film. To help with the scripting, Edouard invites screenwriter Otto to stay with them. The last member of the quartet is Charlotte’s pretty niece Ottilie, a classical guitar student. Tensions arise when Charlotte and Otto find each other equally inept as writers. Much of the film centers upon the heavy and frequently aloof discourse that goes on between the foursome as they wrangle their way towards finishing and marketing the script.Read More »

Anna’s marriage collapses due to her husband Pavel’s alcoholism, and she drinks alongside him to hide his shame. While she is away on a business trip, someone sets fire to their apartment. Their young son Alyosha survives but loses his voice from trauma, being the only witness. Police believe the boy knows the arsonist and need him to confront the suspect. Anna works with a child therapist to heal her son, confronts the damage alcohol has done to their family, and finally helps the boy identify the criminal.Read More »

By means of a sharp publicistic film the authors enter into “on equal ground” conversation with the young people who enter in life or who’ve taken their first independent steps in it. The problems confronted by them are of a new nature for the society: they are generated not by poverty but by richness of possibilities given by the same society. And at the same time that problems are animated by the incomprehension or lack of desire from the part of the old age people to understand the new problems and difficulties. The aim of the film is to throw light on the problem, to reveal it without giving methods of its solutions.Read More »

Original title: 不倫
A wife, bored with her husband, meets one of his old friends at a party. He manages a strip club. Intrigued, she goes with him to visit one of his clubs. One of the strippers is upset and the manager has to pleasure her to calm her down. The wife is aroused by the sight of this and later invites him to her house. There they begin a passionate affair behind her husband’s back.Read More »

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Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May’s roommate Queenie needs a large amount of money to bail her twin sister out, May suggests stealing the blackmail money Jane is keeping locked away in her mansion for now…Read More »