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Story of how a poor couple, humiliated by a cruel landlord take their revenge as guerillas of the Vietnamese People’s Army.Read More »
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Loc Mai – Vo chong a phu AKA A Phu and His Wife (1961)
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Marc Didden – Brussels by Night (1983)
1981-1990BelgiumCultDramaMarc DiddenBrussels by Night is a Belgian drama film from 1983, directed by former Humo journalist Marc Didden. The low budget picture was financed partly by Herman Schueremans, organizer of the Flemish rock festival Rock Werchter. The film was named after a 1979 song by Raymond van het Groenewoud, who also wrote the soundtrack for the movie.Read More »
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Costas Zapas – Agapi, agapi, agapi AKA Love, Love, Love (2016)
2011-2020Costas ZapasDramaGreeceThriller“Love, Love, Love” unfolds the chronicle of two couples who experience love and passion to its limits: the exotic and forty years old strip-dancer Stella with the loner ex-playboy and fifty years old Nick, but also of Stella’s teenage daughter Fani with the immature Hector. They all lack love and they want it more than anything in the world. Will love be able to change the fate of these people? Will love be able to beat something colossal as fate? And if it can, how far will they go for love?Read More »
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Joseph Losey – The Criminal (1960)
1951-1960CrimeDramaJoseph LoseyUnited KingdomQuote:
Ex-con Johnny (Stanley Baker) used his time in prison wisely – to plan the biggest robbery of his career. The robbery goes smoothly and Johnny goes to bury the money in a field until the heat is off, as agreed with friend and racketeer Mike Carter (Sam Wanamaker) and the rest of the gang. In a moment of weakness, Johnny pockets five hundred odd pounds from the haul. Coupled with a tip-off from his ex-girlfriend (Jill Bennett) this proves to be his undoing and Johnny is soon back in prison. The rest of the gang try in vain to get the location of the money out of him without success until Mike hits upon the idea of a break-out using Johnny’s new love Suzanne (Margit Saad) as bait.Read More » -
Ralph Habib – La rage au corps (1954)
Ralph Habib1951-1960DramaFranceA dam is under construction in the Pyrénées mountains. All the workers only have eyes for pretty, sensual Clara, the canteen waitress. And what she exchanges with many of them is more than just looks, this is for sure. Nevertheless, despite her frivolity, Clara falls truly in love with Tonio Borelli, the site foreman. The latter takes her to Paris and they marry. But Clara soon realizes that the call of the flesh still consumes her…Read More »
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Richard Pottier – Ouvert contre X… AKA The Case Against X (1952)
Drama1951-1960CrimeFranceRichard PottierA wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion. Two lieutenants,a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.Read More »
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Assel Aushakimova – Welcome to the USA (2019)
2011-2020Assel AushakimovaDramaKazakhstanQueer Cinema(s)Synopsis:
Aliya is a 36-year-old Kazakh lesbian woman. Aliya for the first time in her life tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On the one hand, Aliya is tired of the stagnation, corruption, dictatorship of the Kazakh society, she wants changes in her life. But on the other hand, she is afraid of uncertainty and to start all over again in a foreign country.Read More » -
Frank Capra – Broadway Bill (1934)
1931-1940ComedyDramaFrank CapraUSATycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.’s paper-box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin, luck is against him, and he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse feed, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance.Read More »
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Natalia Shaufert – Resentiment (2019)
2011-2020DramaMoldovaNatalia ShaufertWar









