Drama

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A family faces collapse as they deal with modern issues, searching for new beginnings in a troubled world.Read More »

In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.Read More »

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While some other mid-20th-century directors were pursuing the chimera of “total cinema,” Jean Cocteau was chasing down the dream of a “total art.” But if “total cinema” meant capturing on screen the actual world as it really was, Cocteau’s “total art” meant giving form, instead, to the otherwise impalpable worlds of desire and dream. Both quests were fundamentally unrealistic, but Cocteau embraced this truth in ways both joyously inventive and technically rigorous.Read More »

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Karl Kassbach, age 54, lives in Vienna and is the owner of a grocery shop. He can no longer communicate with his wife and his 18 year old son. He has an affair with the new apprentice, Liesi, and his inclination to brutality becomes more pronounced from meeting to meeting. But it is only among his jovial old friends who, like himself, are involved in the activities of the right-extremist organization, ‘Initiative’ tvonhat he feels really secure, the fascist characteristics which he acquired during his youth are here intensified: Together, the comrades go bowling, practice shooting, carry out attacks on guest workers and democratic clubs. During one of these ‘actions’, Kassbach shoots dead a journalist… The portrait of a petty bourgeois who was exposed to national socialism and is unable to cope with it.Read More »

My close friend is dead, and people swam around me for answers.Read More »

Very little information out there in English on this one, but it appears to be one of many filmatisations of Shiro Ozaki’s novel Jinsei Gekijo. Starstudded and directed in three segments by three directors. Seems to involve lots of yakuzas and politics. And sex (a golden shower!).Read More »

When a burned Quran is found on a film set the crew is thrown into turmoil. Caught in the crossfire of accusations, intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets and lies finding herself at the heart of an all-absorbing co…Read More »

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It’s a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone “Pine Top” Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant’s, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend goes awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.Read More »

Experimental film adaption of Dante’s Divine Comedy directed by Polish-born pupeteer Michael Meschke. The film was bashed by most critics which eventually made Meschke give up filmmaking.Read More »