Drama

  • Chema García Ibarra – Espíritu sagrado AKA The Sacred Spirit (2021)

    2021-2030Chema García IbarraDramaSci-FiSpain

    While an ongoing investigation for the mysterious disappearance of a little girl is shaking the local community, José Manuel continues his daily routine. He works in his modest tapas bar, takes care of his mother and attends the weekly meetings of the ufology association, Ovni-Levante, where he exchanges information about extraterrestrial messages and alien abductions with the rest of its devoted members. When their leader dies unexpectedly, José Manuel is the only person who knows the cosmic secret that could alter the future of humanity.Read More »

  • Louise Weard – Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps (2024) 

    Louise Weard2021-2030CanadaDocumentaryDrama

    Trans sex worker Michaela mentors her newly-out friend Adeline while pursuing motherhood in Vancouver. Production assistant Turner slides toward inceldom as his relationship falls apart.Read More »

  • Edward L. Cahn – Betrayed Women (1955)

    USA1951-1960CrimeDramaEdward L. Cahn

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    The governor appoints lawyer Jeff Darrow to open an investigation on the reported cruelties inflicted on the inmates of the Bayou Reformatory For Women. The investigation is opposed by Mrs. Ballard, head of the prison, whose moronic brother, Cletus, is keeper of the prison bloodhounds. Nora Collins, once engaged to Jeff, but now an inmate because she had stolen to protect her brother, is resentful of prison methods and particularly bitter against the sadistic methods of a brutal prison guard named Darcy. Honey Blake and Kate unsuccessfully try to use Cletus in an escape attempt. But they try a second escape using Jeff, Nora and Mrs. Ballard as hostages. Mabry, Kate’s gangland lover, hears of the escape and knowing she will go where she had hidden $50,000 gets there ahead of her.Read More »

  • Banmei Takahashi – Itakunai Shinikata AKA Peaceful Death (2020)

    2011-2020Banmei TakahashiDramaJapan

    Jin Kawada (Tasuku Emoto) is a doctor, who provides home medical care. He is very busy with his work and has little time left to spend with his family.Read More »

  • Denys Arcand – La maudite galette AKA Dirty Money (1972)

    Drama1971-1980CanadaCrimeDenys Arcand

    After a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur (The Death of a Lumberjack’s J. Léo Gagnon), working class Montreal couple Roland (O.K. … Laliberté’s René Caron) and Berthe (Mustang’s Luce Guilbeault) are left feeling slighted by his meager gift of $500. Hungry for more, Berthe hatches a plan to descend on Uncle Arthur’s remote country house and steal his small fortune with the help of her delinquent brother and cousin. When the robbery spirals out of control, allegiances shift, blood is spilled, and Roland’s dimwitted lodger Ernest (J.A. Martin Photographer’s Marcel Sabourin) takes center stage in a harrowing battle for Arthur’s stolen cash.Read More »

  • Marí Alessandrini – Zahorí (2021)

    2021-2030ArgentinaArthouseDramaMarí Alessandrini

    “A magical journey to the end of the earth…”

    Synopsis:
    The Patagonian steppe is swept by a grey wind… Mora, 13 years old, wants to be a “gaucho”. She rebels against school and affirms herself to her parents, Swiss Italian ecologists, whose dream of autonomy turns into a nightmare. Mora will go deep into the meanders of the steppe to help her only friend Nazareno, an old Mapuche who has lost his horse, Zahorí.Read More »

  • Katsuya Tomita – Bankoku naitsu AKA Bangkok Nites (2016)

    2011-2020DramaJapanKatsuya Tomita

    Bangkok, an endlessly expanding megalopolis. In its heart is Thaniya Road, a red-light district, frequented only by Japanese men. Luck is one of the reigning queens there. Living alone in a luxury apartment, she provides for her large family in the northeastern provinces, near the Laotian border. One day Luck comes across Ozawa, a Japanese client with whom she had fallen in love five years earlier. An ex-soldier with the Japanese Defense Army, he barely ekes out a living, and has a modest room on skid row. When Ozawa has to go to Laos, she accompanies him to introduce him to her family and childhood friends. During this short stay, weary of his life in Bangkok, Ozawa starts dreaming of a quiet life in this little village, but becomes aware of the scars left by colonialism.Read More »

  • Jan Bonny – Über Barbarossaplatz (2016)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyJan Bonny

    Psychotherapist hesitates to take over the patients of her husband after his suicide.Read More »

  • Yôichi Higashi – A Japanese Demon AKA Satori (1973)

    1971-1980DramaEroticaJapanYôichi Higashi

    A psychotherapist suffers from the onslaughts of Satori, the demon whose name is paradoxically homonymic to the word used for enlightenment experiences in the Zen tradition. Many people mistakenly believe that such a state is the goal of Zen practice; however, the demon strikes at people who are in a state devoid of thought or feeling. Satori’s influence spreads from the psychotherapist to a couple who grow increasingly uninhibited.Read More »

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