A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

Director: Michel Franco
Writers: Michel Franco
Cast: Jessica Chastain,Isaac Hernández,Rupert Friend
Producer: Michel Franco, Eréndira Núñez Larios, Alexander Rodnyansky, Megan Carlson
Cinematography: Yves Cape
Production Company: Teorema, Freckle Films ,AR Content, Eastern Film, Greenwich Entertainment
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 38mn

	
Dreams.2025.1080p.BluRay.DD+5.1.x264-SPHD.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Spanish (LA)

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The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

Director: Archie Mayo
Writers: Harry Segall, Roland Kibbee
Cast: Paul Muni,Anne Baxter,Claude Rains,
Producer: Charles R. Rogers, David W. Siegel
Cinematography: James Van Trees
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Production Company: Premier Productions
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 40mn

Angel On My Shoulder.1946.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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A married businessman has an affair with his secretary. Someone takes pictures as proof of his infidelity and blackmails him. Who could the blackmailer be, and what perverse things do they want?

Director: Bob Chinn
Cast: Pharoah Amos,Susan Catherine,Fred Huber
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 57mn

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In a Paris cemetery, a handcuffed prisoner grieves at the grave of his sister Andy. In flashbacks, we see what happened. He’s arrested for smuggling an Ecstacy-like drug; to get money to help him, Andy takes a job in a mysterious call-girl ring run by the wealthy and secretive March. She’s goes to the American embassy for help as well, and she’s assisted by Stanley Esher, a nerdy but competent bureaucrat. To train for the sex ring, Andy is taught by a blind masseur and advised by Helga, the friend who recruited her. There’s also the drug, which can be stored in temporary tooth caps, released with a bite, and passed on with a kiss. Andy tries to outwit March, but the cemetery awaits.

Director: Sandy Whitelaw
Writers: Stephen O’Shea
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Jerome Davis,Carolyn Lowery,
Producer: Jonathan Karlsen
Cinematography: Romain Winding
Music: Robert Lockhart
Production Company: Pandora Cinema, Kuzui Enterprises, Scala
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30mn

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JIM BOWIE…a man with his name on a knife – and a woman with a weapon all her own!
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse’s murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

Director: Gordon Douglas
Writers: James R. Webb, Paul Wellman
Cast: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia
Producer: Henry Blanke
Cinematography: John F. Seitz
Music: Max Steiner
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 50mn

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Subtitles:English

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“Michael Smith is a big baby. Well, not all the time. But when he gets into his droopy diapers and lacy bonnet, adds sunglasses and a pacifier, and totters around on his stumpy legs as Baby Ikki, he’s as riveting to watch as any real toddler, albeit larger, hairier and a bit scary. Mr. Smith, the multitalented performer, video maker and multimedia artist, has been doing this character for about 30 years, and it never gets old.

For his latest escapade Baby Ikki went to Burning Man, the weeklong celebration of all things psychedelic that takes place every summer in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. A film crew followed him as he wandered around the festival in white Crocs, and the resulting footage is the heartbeat of “A Voyage of Growth and Discovery,” a wonderfully entertaining and slyly thought-provoking collaboration between Mr. Smith and Mike Kelley, the Los Angeles artist known for, among other things, sculptures made of old, grubby stuffed animals and children’s blankets.

Occupying the SculptureCenter’s main space, the installation features a half-dozen large flat screens showing various phases of Baby Ikki’s day and night peregrinations, which cumulatively add up to an odyssey. In the gallery is a set of tubular metal structures resembling children’s playground climbing equipment, which includes one shaped like a rocket and a geodesic dome skeleton whose floor is covered with stuffed animals. This emphasizes a view of Burning Man as an essentially juvenile gathering. The boyish optimism of Modernist futurism — as in the inventions of Buckminster Fuller — is evoked by these jungle gymlike sculptures.

Looming over all is a colossal sculpture of Baby Ikki made of welded-together junk metal, which parodies the towering wooden sculpture with the emblematic figure that is climactically set on fire every year at Burning Man.

The videos start with Baby Ikki playing in the motor home that brought him to the event. Evidently preoccupied by fire, he clicks on a cigarette lighter, turns on the gas-fired stove top and consumes candy fireballs while horror-movie scenes of a woman threatened by flames plays on a television.

Outside he ambulates among campers dressed in all kinds of fanciful costumes, gesturing with clumsily splayed fingers at people and objects of interest. Occasionally he belts vehicles — done up like animals for a parade — with the stuffed green creature he carries around in one arm. All the while he maintains an expression of melancholic, slightly quizzical impassivity.

When night comes, he visits some of the elaborate, walk-in environments created by various campers and observes people dancing, twirling flaming batons and otherwise expressing themselves. At one point three minimally dressed women pull him onstage and writhe around him like lap dancers. Finally, all tuckered out, he finds a cushion-covered floor and falls asleep.

Baby Ikki seems to fit right in amid all the zanily attired burners, but he’s not one of them. He’s a kind of mole, a secret agent with his own agenda. Clearly Mr. Smith and Mr. Kelley designed their project not to celebrate but to mock the Burning Man circus. To substitute a giant baby for its wooden avatar is to suggest that the festival is driven by infantilism.

Contrary to the old hippie fantasy that expanding consciousness through unbridled fun, creativity and hedonism — and of course psychotropic drugs — will transform the world for the better, they imply that Burning Man is naïve and disingenuously complicit with capitalist consumerism. It becomes a symbol of what Herbert Marcuse called “repressive desublimation,” which reroutes unruly and rebellious instinctual energies into politically harmless sybaritic indulgence, escapist entertainment and spiritual delusion.

There have been times when anarchic revelry seemed like a good way to resist and overturn socially limiting mores. The antics of the Dadaists in the 1920s and the high jinks of the Merry Pranksters in the ’60s were, perhaps, genuinely liberating. But now that Dionysian catharsis has become the promise of beer commercials and spring-break debauchery, behaving “wildly” is no longer so threatening to the status quo.

This does not make the Smith-Kelley project antipsychedelic. A politics of paranoia that finds everywhere the surreptitious, systematic curbing of individual freedoms and democratic initiative has always been part of the counterculture psyche. Yet this sort of suspicious mind-set can be diverted into less troublesome endeavors like “institutional critique,” the academically certified type of conceptualism that views art museums as agents of consciousness control and puts its faith in the analytic powers of the properly trained intellect.

The Smith-Kelley project is an unusually imaginative and funny instance of “institutional critique,” assuming it is fair to call Burning Man an institution. Admittedly, satirizing the festival and its associated New Age culture is like shooting fish in a barrel. (Borat could have a field day there.) But there are moments in the videos of considerable metaphorical and emotional urgency, as when we see Baby Ikki alone in the distance, almost lost in a dust storm, or when he falls asleep and dreams of women’s breasts.

In the Fellini-like scene with the three dancers, he’s like Odysseus enduring the call of the sirens. It’s less the tendentious didacticism than the comic, mythological vision that makes it compelling.

But the tension between ideological critique and carnivalesque rebellion — a schism that has been running through American radicalism for over a century — is something to think about too. A choice between purity of spirit and exuberance of soul.”

Director: Mike Kelley, Michael Smith
Writers: Mike Kelley, Michael Smith
Cast: Michael Smith
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 26mn

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Explores Kim Novak’s life, highlighting her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and her journey from stardom to a reclusive life as an artist in Oregon, using rare archival footage and Novak’s own reflections.

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Writers: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cast: Kim Novak, Alexandre O. Philippe
Producer: Alexandre O. Philippe
Cinematography: Robert Muratore, Jeff Pointer
Music: Jon Hegel
Production Company: Gull House Films, Medianoche Films
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 17mn

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