Drama

During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant’s flash façade.Read More »

A seventeen-year-old high school student, Fusae Nishikawa, while observing a physical education class at her menstruation class, steals her classmate Eiko Takanashi’s wallet on a whim. An anonymous love letter found in the wallet becomes a rumor among the students. Eiko is in love with an upperclassman, Kaoru Mitani. However, Kaoru’s heart has recently moved on to college student Nitta.Read More »

A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.

Amélie (Pauline Etienne) was born in Kansai but she is Belgian, unfortunate twist of fate as she stubbornly wants to become « a venerable Japanese writer ». So at the age of 20 Amelie leaves Belgium for Japan to realize her dream. There, to earn her living, she teaches french to Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese french culture enthusiast, as sweet and charming as he is sometimes impenetrable… Read More »

1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

4 wins, 12 nominationsRead More »

Ustedes los ricos is a Mexican movie made during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. It is the second movie in a trilogy. The first movie is Nosotros los pobres and the third movie and conclusion of the trilogy is Pepe El Toro. Ustedes los ricos stars Mexican actor/singer Pedro Infante as Pepe el Toro, with a cast of actors that is very well-known in Mexico for working in several movies of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema: Blanca Estela Pavón, Evita MuñozRead More »

U menya net druga is one of the Aleksey Balabanov’s student films. It’s about a couple of girlfriends, still in highschool, one of whom plays all modern and adventurous, and the other one cannot move on to the sexual part of relationship with her boyfriend. One day the boyfriend, as a means of producing an impression on her, takes her to an underground rock concert, where the famous Belkin band is supposed to play, but it so happens that she leaves not with the boyfriend, but with the band.Read More »

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last…thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?Read More »

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The same voyeuristic story, told by two different men: first by Michaël Lonsdale, in a « fiction » version, then by Jean-Noël Picq, in a « document » version. The way the film was shot is worth mentioning: Eustache first got his friend Jean Noël-Picq to sit down with a group of people (including The Mother and the Whore’s Françoise Lebrun) and recount a strange episode in his life: how in the men’s room of a local restaurant, he found a hole in the wall and peered through, finding that he had a perfect view of the ladies’ room. He became a regular patron, and his daily dose of scopophilia turned into an addiction until one day, with some relief, he found that the hole had been plastered over. Then Eustache “remade” his own film in a scripted, 35 mm version, with the critic Jean Douchet as the “director” and Michel Lonsdale in the Picq role. One of the cinema’s great curiosities, A Dirty Story exerts a mysterious – and often uncomfortably voyeuristic – fascination.Read More »

A single mother and a married man enter into an affair with the understanding that their relationship is purely sexual. Though they agree the relationship has no future, they find themselves increasingly drawn into each other’s company.Read More »