A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.Read More »
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John Cassavetes – Faces (1968)
John Cassavetes1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDramaUSA -
Anders Edström & C.W. Winter – The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020)
C.W. Winter2011-2020Anders EdströmDramaJapanA geographic description of fourteen months of the work and non-work of Tayoko in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. A georgic in five books.Read More »
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Jean Delannoy – Chiens perdus sans collier AKA The Little Rebels (1955)
Jean Delannoy1951-1960DramaFranceQuote:
French director Jean Delannoy has made 40 feature films in his long as well as illustrious career. He is best known for his film “La Symphonie Pastorale” based on the book by famous French writer André Gide. However,”The little rebels” is one of his important films which deserves a wider audience.This film is about some juvenile delinquents whose boring lives change for good when they come into contact with a kind yet practical judge. Superstar of French cinema, Jean Gabin plays the judge’s role with firm conviction.Read More »
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Suzanne Osten – Flickan, mamman och demonerna AKA The Girl, The Mother and The Demons [+Extras] (2016)
Suzanne Osten2011-2020DramaSweden

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In an apartment, Siri, a single and psychotic mother, locks herself up with her daughter. Demons are in charge here. Ti can hear her mother talk to the demons, she can see her mother’s transformed and closed expression. But Ti can neither see nor hear the demons her mother is talking to. The situation becomes dangerous when the demons entirely take over Siri’s world. Really dangerous. Siri is no longer Siri. It’s as if she has been transformed into a demon herself. In order to survive, Ti engages her imagination to conquer her mother’s demons.Read More » -
Chris Newby – Anchoress (1993)
1991-2000ArthouseChris NewbyDramaUnited Kingdom

In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine’s mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death…Read More »
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Robert Siodmak – Cargaison blanche AKA Le chemin de Rio (1937)
Robert Siodmak1931-1940DramaFrance

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Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they’ve brought themselves.Read More » -
István Szabó – Mephisto[4K Restoration] (1981)
István Szabó1981-1990DramaHungary

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.Read More »
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Israel Adrián Caetano – Bolivia (1999)
1991-2000ArgentinaDramaIsrael Adrián Caetano

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William A. Wellman – Lilly Turner (1933)
William A. Wellman1931-1940ClassicsDramaUSALilly Turner (1933) provided a bravura role for star Ruth Chatterton, and another opportunity to display her versatility. Lilly is a hard-luck dame with lousy taste in men. First she marries a no-good bounder who promises her the world, but instead turns her into a cootch dancer in a carnival. Then she finds out her “husband” already has a wife. Left alone and pregnant, Lilly marries an alcoholic pal (Frank McHugh), and the couple joins a traveling medicine show. Things go from bad to worse when a psychotic strongman in the show develops an obsession for her. When a genuine nice guy, played by Chatterton’s then-husband George Brent, comes into her dreary life, Lilly tries to grab some happiness. But it may be too late.Read More »



