• Semih Kaplanoglu – Herkes Kendi Evinde AKA Away From Home (2001)

    2001-2010DramaSemih KaplanogluTurkey

    Plot
    After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim (Cevik) takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim’s aged grand uncle, Nasuhi (Keskin) returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga (Bielska) who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father. The three of them visit the olive grove and still standing farmhouse, which Nasuhi immediately starts to repair. Upset with his grand uncles enthusiasm Selim quickly finds a developer who buys the olive grove and reluctantly takes title to the farmhouse as well.Read More »

  • Kô Nakahira – Arabu no arashi AKA The Arab Storm (1961)

    Kô Nakahira1961-1970AsianDramaJapan

    Autotranslated from Japanese:
    Shintaro Munekata, the grandson of the president of Dainippon Bussan, decided to go abroad to see the wider world according to his grandfather’s will. Shintaro meets Yuriko on his plane. After that, Shintaro is replaced by an Araya man in the lobby of Beirut Airport. A moment later, the Arayas were killed by someone else.Read More »

  • Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton – King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

    Andrew Marton1941-1950ActionAdventureCompton BennettUSA

    Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an effort to locate Elizabeth Curtis’ husband Henry, who was searching for King Solomon’s legendary treasure. Along the way they encounter a variety of wild animals including snakes, a leopard and a rhino. Quartermain isn’t keen on having a woman on the expedition and he and Elizabeth quarrel regularly. Elizabeth and her husband were not very fond of one another and her expedition is driven by her own guilt. She and Quatermain fall in love but survival becomes their goal when they meet dangerous tribesmen.Read More »

  • Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi – Plemya AKA The Tribe (2014)

    Drama2011-2020ArthouseMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiUkraine

    A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system.

    Set in a Ukrainian school for the deaf and mute, The Tribe follows new student Sergey as he gets a crash course in who’s really in charge. The decrepit institution is awash in drugs, prostitution and organized petty crime. This incredible film has one particularly daring aspect: it is acted entirely in sign language without the aid of subtitles or voice-over. The audience follows the story through the physicality of the performances and the emphatic intensity of the signing. Heightened by a hormone-laced narrative, with kids engaging in explicit sex and violence, The Tribe is an unforgettable cinematic experience, from its epic, wordless opening shot to the brutal finale.Read More »

  • Joseph W. Sarno – Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)

    Joseph W. Sarno1971-1980CultEroticaUSA

    Synopsis:
    A grieving widow embraces life and passion during a visit to her sexually open daughter’s home in this boundary-pushing erotic drama from sexploitation auteur Joseph Sarno. New York sophisticates Carole and Eddie spice up their sex life by swapping partners with their close friends, Anna and Pete. An unexpected visit from Carole’s young, attractive and recently widowed mother Jennifer throws a temporary wrench into their plans, but the quartet are soon back in action after Pete tries and fails to seduce Jennifer in the kitchen. Intoxicated by life and lust, Jennifer begins a May-December romance.Read More »

  • Richard Fleischer & Kinji Fukasaku & Toshio Masuda – Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

    1961-1970ActionKinji FukasakuRichard FleischerToshio MasudaUSAWar

    Quote:
    Tora! Tora! Tora! Is the Japanese signal to attack – and this movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanese positions. Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack. Top U.S. brass ignore its possibility. Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it – but never reach F.D.R.’s desk. Radar warnings are disregarded. Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported. Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives – in the most spectacular, gut-wrenching cavalcade of action.Read More »

  • Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising – Dumb Patrol (1931)

    1931-1940AnimationHugh HarmanRudolf IsingShort FilmUSA

    During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that’s only the first battle.Read More »

  • Sang-ho Yeon – The Fake aka Saibi (2013)

    2011-2020AnimationCrimeSang-ho YeonSouth Korea

    A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.Read More »

  • Hermann Pfeiffer – Falschmünzer AKA Counterfeiters (1940)

    Hermann Pfeiffer1931-1940CrimeGermanyThird Reich Cinema

    Counterfeit money is discovered near the Bodensee. The investigators for the “Reichszentrale für Falschmünzerei” get wind of it and open up an investigation. When the band of counterfeiters try to recruit a young graphic artist into their ranks, he quickly rats on them to the police. The investigation soon leads to Switzerland, where the nest of criminals is stormed with the help of the Swiss police. (rarefilmsandmore.com)Read More »

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