1981-1990

Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock ‘n’ roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.Read More »

Synopsis Das Wunder (The Wonder)

Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father played by Raimund Harmstorf escapes reality into an affair with his secretary (Sybille Rauch). Her mother (Dagmar Lassander) reacts to the difficult situation in an over protective and possessive conduct towards her blind daughter.Read More »

The plot:
Hans Thomsen is a man from the lowest end of society. A looser. He works for little money at the local crematory, running the furnace. Spends his time drinking with like-minded people at local bars. He never lets down an opportunity to score some extra bucks from shady business, like pillaging the corpses he processes every day, or reselling coffins on the black market.
Allan Berg is from the opposite world. He is a winner. High class, powerful, a successful businessman, a man of stature.Read More »

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José’s studies easier…Read More »

U menya net druga is one of the Aleksey Balabanov’s student films. It’s about a couple of girlfriends, still in highschool, one of whom plays all modern and adventurous, and the other one cannot move on to the sexual part of relationship with her boyfriend. One day the boyfriend, as a means of producing an impression on her, takes her to an underground rock concert, where the famous Belkin band is supposed to play, but it so happens that she leaves not with the boyfriend, but with the band.Read More »

A gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!Read More »

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.Read More »

Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician’s assassination. A delightfully playful giallo starring the beautiful Carole Bouquet as Mystère, a high class call girl who becomes the target for a couple of assassins.Read More »

Quote:
‘Finding similarities in the pulses and shapes between my own experiments in night photography, lightning storms, and night bombing in World War II, I constructed the war at home. — PSS, Canyon Cinema catalog 1992Read More »