Drama

Original title: 無名の人生
A man’s journey through life, marked by various names and labels, leads him to unexpected success while confronting modern social issues and personal struggles along the way.Read More »

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes,the ambience a boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and beans, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out New York, unlovely and violent.Read More »

This film recounts Henri Verneuil’s relationship with his father who had brought his Armenian family to Marseille, France, in order to escape from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The film’s principal cast includes Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif. It was preceded by Mayrig, the first autobiographical movie of Henri Verneuil.Read More »

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss
– basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths –
whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie,
are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori.Read More »

Eye Film Player wrote:
War film about a raid on a prison in Leeuwarden in 1944.

On 8 December 1944, a number of Frisian resistance fighters raided a prison in Leeuwarden and, without loss of blood, freed dozens of prisoners, among them several leaders of the Leeuwarden resistance and a police inspector. For some of the prisoners, severely weakened by torture, the raid came just in time. “The Silent Raid” paints a sober and unromantic picture of this heroic deed.Read More »

During summer vacation on Long Island, three young people–a girl and two guys–become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.Read More »

Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.Read More »

A murderer on the run from the police is given shelter by a lonely lady, but her help might not be as selfless as it seems.Read More »

Gwen is in her last year of high school. Her mother has just died. She lives in Morlaix, a small town in Brittany, France. In the middle of the year, Jean-Luc arrives, a sophisticated, cultured and magnetic Parisian.Read More »