The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole – a polonized Saxon – attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.Read More »
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Janusz Majewski – Czarny Mercedes AKA Black Mercedes (2019)
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Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov – Bratan AKA Brother (1991)
1991-2000Bakhtyar KhudojnazarovDramaUSSRThe first movie of director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov.
Synopsis: Farukh and his little brother were raised by their grandmother in a remote village in Tajikistan, since the separation of their parents. One day, they decide to go back to their father, who is a doctor in a town near the Afghan border. Farukh intends to leave his brother at his father’s before leaving. This is the story of their journey.Read More »
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Bradley Rust Gray – Jack and Diane (2012)
2011-2020Bradley Rust GrayDramaHorrorQueer Cinema(s)USA

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Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet on a summer day in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Bubbly and naïve, Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open tomboy Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving at the end of the summer, she pushes her away. Diane is overwhelmed by her powerful new feelings, and they begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways, causing unexplainable violent changes to her body. Young love is a monster – can Jack and Diane survive?Read More » -
Zoltan Korda – A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)
1941-1950DramaFilm NoirUSAZoltan KordaQuote:
Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. The same night, Emily dies of her chronic heart disease, and Henry promptly marries Doris, to the chagrin of neighbor Janet Spence, who loves him. When a post-mortem shows that Emily’s death was precipitated by arsenic, Henry is placed on trial for his life. But is he guilty?Read More » -
Christopher Menaul – Play for Today: The Cry (1984)
1981-1990Christopher MenaulDramaThe Wednesday Play & Play for TodayTVUnited KingdomA journalist returns to his home town to discover the tensions that are simmering just below the surface prior to the onset of the ‘troubles’.
Huge amount of unbalanced political messaging in this one.Read More »
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Samantha Lang – The Monkey’s Mask (2000)
1991-2000AustraliaDramaQueer Cinema(s)Samantha LangJill Fitzpatrick is a 28-year old, street-smart, out-of-work private investigator wishing she wasn’t celibate.
Eager for the taste of adrenaline, she accepts a job investigating the disappearance of Mickey, a young female student. Jill quickly strikes a spark with the seductive Diana, Mickey’s poetry lecturer.
But it is not long before Mickey’s strangled body is found. Distrusting the cops, Mickey’s grief-stricken parents ask Jill to find her murderer. Jill is soon hurled into a passionate liaison with Diana as she enters the surprisingly seamy underworld of Mickey’s life, looking for clues to her murder.Read More » -
Mai Zetterling – Flickorna AKA The Girls (1968) (HD)
Drama1961-1970ComedyMai ZetterlingSwedenA theater company rehearses Aristophanes play “Lysistrata” in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.Read More »
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Duncan Wood – Hancock (BBC version) (1961)
1961-1970BBCComedyDuncan WoodTVUnited KingdomComedian Tony Hancock stars, in this BBC situation comedy TV series, as Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living in East Cheam.Read More »
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Hermine Huntgeburth – Ruhe! Hier stirbt Lothar (2021)
ComedyDramaGermanyHermine HuntgeburthWhen the misanthropic tile salesman Lothar is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he sells his business and gives his dog and all his money to an animal shelter and checks into a hospice, where it turns out that he was misdiagnosed.Read More »







