An investigative reporter becomes entangled in deadly intrigue when she is assigned to get the story of the presidential candidate, and her job is complicated by a string of political assassinations and attempts.Read More »
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Souheil Ben-Barka – Amok (1983)
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Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani – Orgasm (2012)
2011-2020BelgiumBruno ForzaniExperimentalHélène CattetShort FilmWomen Make Horror

Orgasm forms part of The ABCs of Death, a horror shorts anthology that unites a diverse collection of international directors in their ability to disgust, amuse, and – perhaps most importantly – provoke its audience. Orgasm certainly is provocative as the film documents a sadomasochistic sequence that includes the erotic asphyxiation of a woman that (perhaps) ends in her death.Read More »
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Davide Manuli – Mental Masturbation (1992)
1991-2000Davide ManuliExperimentalItalyShort FilmMental Masturbation, a Super 8 short imbued with a blessed soundtrack of trance music (an element that would be recurrent in all his latter films), was a point of start into what would be the most appreciated (and hated) element of Manuli’s cinema: The rescue of the absurdist to paint an atmosphere of freedom, in which music (in this case, electronic music) serves as the only link of meaningful communication between its characters, or between its protagonists and the settings of his films, the relation man-man and man-nature.
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Louis Feuillade – Le gendarme est sans culotte (1914)
1911-1920ComedyFranceLouis FeuilladeSilentIMDB wrote:
Le Gendarme est sans Culotte (or, “The Policeman is Without Trousers”) concerns a dim-witted cop named Foezel, who is played by Marcel Lévesque, best remembered as Mazamette in the great crime serial Les Vampires. Lévesque, whose comic relief character practically stole the show in that series, also starred in his own short comedies. To my way of thinking he suggests a Gallic version of Jimmy Finlayson, Laurel & Hardy’s familiar nemesis, not only in appearance but in his vigorous, over the top performance style. […]Read More » -
Tayfun Pirselimoglu – Dayim AKA My Uncle (2000)
1991-2000DramaShort FilmTayfun PirselimogluTurkey

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The first film by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu. In that autobiographical movie based on Pirselimoglu’s childhood memories about his uncle, an overvoice narrates his uncle’s struggles to achieve flying alone.Read More » -
Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness (2022)
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Sang-soo Hong – Tab AKA Walk Up (2022)
2021-2030DramaSang-soo HongSouth Korea

Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist’s studio at the top. The three of them chat and drink amicably until a business call pulls Byungsoo away. When he returns, it’s the same place, but a different time, and the building owner invites him up to the second floor.Read More »
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Kurt Jung-Alsen – Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag AKA Duped Till Doomsday (1957)
Drama1951-1960Film NoirGermanyKurt Jung-AlsenSynopsis:
‘It is June 1941 and a company of German soldiers is stationed near the Lithuanian border. While on leave, three soldiers – Wagner, Lick and Paulun – go off on a hunting trip. All is fine until one of them accidentally shoots their captain’s daughter. Out of fear, the three men decide to leave the body and tell no one of the accident. Tensions mount and the soldiers are pushed to the breaking point when accusations and troubled memories collide.’
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Claude Massot – Kabloonak AKA The Stranger (1994)
1991-2000AdventureCanadaClaude MassotDrama

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This docudrama, filmed in the frozen northern reaches of Canada and Russia, depicts some of the technical difficulties that filmmaker Robert Flaherty encountered when he staged scenes for his 1922 silent film Nanook of the north. It shows how he initially clashes with the Inuit culture, but eventually a friendship develops with the protagonist, Nanook, and the rest of the community.Read More »




