1991-2000

After laying bare backward village mentalities in Bloody Morning, Li Shaohong turns her attention to China’s urban middle class. Cao is a photographer, married to an opera singer and with an infant son, caught in the usual professional morass of political compromise. His life starts to fall apart when he learns that his ex-wife also bore him a son some months after their divorce – and when the boy turns up looking for his father. Nothing wildly dramatic, just believable people in believable situations. If the ending seems a touch forced, this is nevertheless a sign that ‘Fifth Generation’ cinema is changing and coming to terms with up-to-date realities.Read More »

Quote: They said strange things happened around her. They said she was dangerous. They said she was a demon. Now naive little Izumi is about to uncover the truth behind her life of lies…Read More »

Quote: College life getting you down? Switch to Seika College where the students are getting a whole new lesson in sexual education! Michiru’s classes were dull and boring until her classmates, Chie, Saori and Takeru, started taking extra classes at a new night school. Utilizing subliminal messaging, the school helps their students ace their daytime college exams. Unfortunately, the school’s professor forgot to mention the process has a few sexual side effects…Read More »

Quote: Sealed away for eons, the egg from an Injuu, a lusty demon tentacle, manages to escape its earthly confinement when an earthquake shatters its prison into tiny bits. Mad as hell (not to mention sexually frustrated after being incarcerated for all those years) it’s out to get revenge!Read More »

”Born To Lose (The Last Rock & Roll Movie)’ documents the myth, and dark reality, of Johnny Thunders. It contains plenty of choice concert material, much of which has never been seen before. There are also a large number of interviews with people talking about Johnny but none of Johnny himself. Some of the scenes in this film were shot by Lech for two un-
finished films that were to star Johnny titled ‘Gringo’ and ‘Stations Of The Cross.’Read More »

Quote: The first of five completely independent live action erotic horror films based on the hit anime Angel of Darkness, one of the best-selling adult anime titles ever! Angel of Darkness brings together the hottest demon tentacle action and the most stylish erotic horror! Sex, Passion and Demonic Possession! The college students of Shibuya seemed so innocent until a depraved sex demon unleashed the carnal desires of their teachers possessed! Now its writhing tentacles are about to teach them a lesson of desire and ecstasy that they might just not survive!Read More »

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Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream..Read More »

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Tom Noonan’s dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness. Late one night, Jack and Rita are visited by one of their patients, Cosmo, and his wife, Arlie. Cosmo’s wife has felt “left out,” since her husband spends so much time with the therapists and confides all of their secrets to them. Arlie has insisted on meeting them–the evening begins awkwardly, then painfully grinds on, as various tensions and power struggles emerge between and among the two couples.Read More »

Carl is having trouble writing. As the film progresses, his novelistic character develops into a real person who intervenes in his life with increasing menace. The lector Roy supports Carl but is marked by a severe illness. To escape his difficulties, Carl accompanies Jon and Liza on an architectural journey. Bela and Fred remain behind with Roy and are confronted with his approaching death. For his friends, his death becomes the motive to reconstruct their life spent together.Read More »