Konets Veka is another Konstantin Lopushansky fantasy parable with the elements of a mystic thriller. The story takes place in Moscow in the autumn of 1993, during a strike; the army is assaulting the parliament, and Marina Nikolayevna and her daughter Olga have found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. Six years later, Olga feels sorry for her mother and decides to invite her to Germany to have her treated at a mental hospital by a perverted doctor who promises to cure her. Olga’s mother, however, cannot shake the memory of her husband, who died in 1993 during the strike in Moscow.Read More »
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Konstantin Lopushanskiy – Konets Veka AKA The Turn of the Century [Director’s Cut] (2001)
2001-2010ArthouseKonstantin LopushanskiyRussiaSci-Fi -
Armando Bo – Animal (2018)
2011-2020ArgentinaArmando BoDramaThriller

Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.Read More »
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Roberto Pires – Abrigo Nuclear (1981)
1981-1990BrazilRoberto PiresSci-Fi

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Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.Read More » -
Ruth Beckermann – Mutzenbacher (2022)
2021-2030AustriaDocumentaryRuth BeckermannQuote:
There is not much that Ruth Beckermann brings to her film: An empty former coffin factory, a few lights and reflectors, a camera, a piano and a huge rose-gold canapé in the style of the Belle Epoque, as well as the wickedly titled book – and, of course, above all, men. Lots and lots of men. Old, young, middle-aged. Bourgeois and civil servant types, pensioners and washed-up people of indeterminate age, students and “young professionals”, people who have lost their way and smart up-and-comers. In between, the former director of the Austrian Film Museum, an ex-bodybuilder or martial artist, a linnet and various other specimens of the male species.Read More » -
Doris Wishman – Satan Was a Lady (2001)
2001-2010Doris WishmanDramaUSAWishman’s plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.Read More »
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Kon Ichikawa – Pu-san AKA Mr.Pu (1953)
Kon Ichikawa1951-1960ComedyDramaJapanIntroduction
A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment.And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rearm…Read More » -
Márta Mészáros – Útközben (1979)
1971-1980DramaHungaryMárta MészárosBarbara is a young mother of two in Hungary whose everyday life is abruptly collapses when a friend in Poland dies. Barbara travels to the funeral and meets an actress and experiences an intense love story.Read More »
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Lili Horvát – Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre AKA Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)
Drama2011-2020HungaryLili HorvátRomanceSynopsis:
Márta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.Read More » -
Il-gon Song – Git AKA Feathers in the Wind (2004)
2001-2010DramaIl-gon SongRomanceSouth KoreaSynopsis:
Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island he stayed 10 years ago to fulfill a promise he made with his girlfriend at the time. As he waits on the secluded island to see if the promise will also be kept by now his ex-girlfriend, he gets to know an oddly charming young motel operator So-yeon.Read More »






