Drama

A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane and friends when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman.Read More »

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Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989’s La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist SpainRead More »

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Maria Conchita Alonso at her very Best
pj_malone24 August 2005

This movie would have got nowhere without Maria Conchita Alonso’s performance, the powerful plot and shocking end is really a work of art. It is commented that Maria Conchita Alonso wanted to buy the rights for the movie but the rights owner didn’t want to. Whatever happened this movie has not been released in English language, and a great performance from Maria Conchita, can’t be seen yet. The movie shows the ordeals that some people from Colombia went thru, to get to stay in Venezuela, Maria Conchita plays a high society woman obsessed with her lover. The movie shows a very rare often edited scene, where Maria Conchita Alonso gets raped in a Ladies bathroom. Dark very powerful, raw and controversial, this is one of Maria Conchita Alonso’s greatest performances, a must see.Read More »

When Qing Chen receives news that her baby has a 70% chance of being born disabled, it ignites a crisis in her marriage as she and her husband argue over the fate of their unborn baby who is observing everything sympathetically.Read More »

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman’s investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.Read More »

The impossible love between a minor young man and a nun. In 1944, in Marseille, Denis, a 14-year-old boy, finishes his 3rd year at a Jesuit college. During a visit to a patient in a hospital, he notices Sister Clotilde, a young nun who is not insensitive to her charm. Their friendship grows until the mother superior understands that it is evolving towards a feeling of love. Despite the advice of their respective entourage and imposed separation, they give in to their passion and eventually run away to spend the summer in Haute-Loire, in a property of the family of Sister Clotilde. When the Liberation arrives, the taboos and society catch up with them.Read More »

It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.Read More »

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.Read More »

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Hirotaka Tashiro’s remarkably assured first feature focuses on a long ignored problem: the plight of the foreign worker in Japan. In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home.Read More »