Directed by Daryne Joshua, “Noem Ma Skollie (Call Me Thief)” is South Africa’s official entry for the foreign language film at the Oscars.
Based on the life of the film’s scriptwriter, John W. Fredericks, the film tells the story of a young man living in a world of poverty and violence in 1960s Cape Town, before being imprisoned for a petty crime.Read More »
A private detective arrives in a small provincial town to investigate a series of murders…
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Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He’s a private investigator in Creuzeville, over which an old family of industrialists reigns, a murder has just been committed…Read More »
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.Read More »
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Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Due to his obligation to Kokin, he is involved with a gang war and is arrested.Read More »
A woman engages a down-on-his-luck sailor to help her find her sister, who was kidnapped by modern day pirates.Read More »
Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed. The school director tells Marco she expects him to find the killer outside of the school, and she bristles at his insistent interrogations of the school staff and the students. Marco learns that two sadistic games were played the night of the murder and that the victim had been tied up. There are a number of suspects, including a teacher with an unnatural affection for one of the girls; a suspicious Spanish gentleman at the town-inn, and some of the pupils themselves.Read More »
In his first feature film, Juraj Herz established himself as an original auteur with a flair for refined style. In accord with Hana Bělohradská’s novel Poslední večeře (The Last Supper), he created a dark atmosphere filled with suspicion and despair around a criminal plot. Znamení Raka (1966) is set in the hospital where the crime will take place. In a consulting room, somebody will murder Dr. Hahn – and due to the physician’s reputation as a womaniser, the list of suspects grows… Herz filled the unusual setting with bizarre figures, among whom shines the character of the terminally ill Prokopa, as embodied by Iva Janžurová. Znamení Raka (Sign of the Cancer) faced a series of problems, as Herz was forced to change the post-synchronisation and to omit a series of sexually explicit scenes. Real-life physicians, outraged by the unqualified communist physician character (Ilja Prachř), also protested against the film.Read More »
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A City is Blackmailed
Criminals are blackmailing the city of Leipzig and showing that they’re serious by
pulling off a major attack. The special police squad finds evidence leading to a village
that is scheduled for demolition to make way for open-pit mining. The cops run into a
wall of silence among the townspeople who are fighting to preserve their village…
Directed by renowned filmmaker Dominik Graf, a realistic thriller that pits high-tech
against tradition in the midst of a desolate, ruined landscapeRead More »
