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In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough gangleader with political aspirations. He tries to get himself involved in the graft and corruption of local city government. He almost dies after he is plugged by a gangster. That is the turning point in his life. He decides to forego the crooked path for the straight and narrow. He takes his sweetheart along for the ride.Read More »
Thirty-year-old Jérémie returns to Saint-Martial to attend an old friend’s funeral. In this village full of things left unsaid, he finds himself the target of rumour and suspicion, to the point he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.Read More »
In a remote woodland cabin, a small-town doctor discovers Nell – a beautiful young hermit-woman with many secrets.Read More »
Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father’s prize hog, Blue Boy. As the fair proceeds, so do the romances; must lovers separate when the fair closes?Read More »
Sin of God was made as a studio exercise by the world-famous Polish-born director Agnieszka Holland (born 1948) during her studies at FAMU in Prague. The plot is based on Isaac Babel’s short story The Sin of Jesus. – A young maid Arina (Jaroslava Pokorná) has a love affair with a peddler Serega. She is even pregnant with him for the second time. She doesn’t take care of the twins from her first pregnancy, she gave them to a foundling. Her lover, however, has to enlist. The inexperienced mother does not know how to fulfil her sexual and emotional desires during Serega’s absence. So she consults God. He sends her an angel, Alfred, with whom she cannot conceive. But this is not the end of the woman’s troubles, rather the beginning.Read More »
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Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene’s older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in – and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.Read More »
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Adapted from a work by Paul Bowles and co-written by Andre Techine, this film — directed by Benoit Graffin) — is about the complicated relationship between a young up-and-comer and a silver-haired lothario. Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown caf by the beach.Read More »
Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin.
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In this low-budget film, underground director Lothar Lambert explores longings and sexual fantasies that link the main characters – namely, Berlin couple Rüdiger and Helga, their butcher colleague Kurt, and his sister Klara, who is visiting. In a mix of voyeurism, porn flick, and group sex, the film depicts stereotypes and clichés but also questions them. This humorous and provocative look behind the façade of ‘normality’ provides an unvarnished examination of exoticized fantasies and projections about society.Read More »
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Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who’s loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who’s distracted by her mother’s debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura’s ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.Read More »