A pair of truckers show off their driving skills to each other while evading pursuing law enforcement.Read More »
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Norifumi Suzuki – Torakku yarô: Goiken muyô AKA Trucker Yaro: No One Can Stop Me AKA Fireball On Highway (1975)
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Frank Capra – Platinum Blonde (1931)
1931-1940ClassicsComedyFrank CapraUSASynopsis:
Reporter ‘Stew’ Smith meets beautiful Ann Schuyler, a rich socialite, while covering the story of a scandal involving Ann’s family. Ann takes a liking to the wisecracking Smith and the couple eventually elope. Stew’s roots as a street smart reporter don’t prepare him well for mixing with Ann’s high society friends and he starts spending more time with his ‘pal’, female reporter Gallagher. Everything comes to a head when Ann and her family return home to their mansion one evening and find that Stew has invited all his ‘pals’ over for an impromptu drinking party.Read More » -
Norman Tokar – The Boatniks (1970)
1961-1970ComedyNorman TokarUSAQuote:
Newly assigned to duty in the coast guard at Newport Beach, a young ensign finds himself involved in romantic complications, as well as with jewel thieves, whose antics contribute to moments of hysteria and hilarity.Read More » -
Basma Alsharif – Ouroboros (2017)
2011-2020ArthouseBasma AlsharifExperimentalPalestineSynopsis
An homage to the Gaza Strip, Ouroboros follows a man through five different landscapes, upending mass-mediated representation of trauma. A journey outside of time, marking the end as the beginning, exploring the subject of the eternal return and how we move forward when all is lost.Read More »
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Jan Halldoff – Chez Nous (1978)
1971-1980CrimeDramaJan HalldoffSweden“It started with a murder of a prostitute, a small matter, really…”
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.Read More »
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René Féret – Anton Tchékhov 1890 (2015)
Drama2011-2020FranceRené FéretIn 1890, Russian writer Anton Chekov writes short stories in newspapers to feed his family. He achieves success in the form of Pushkin prize. However, he decides to meet convicts at Sakhalin when one of this brothers die due to tuberculosis.Read More »
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Sheila McLaughlin & Lynne Tillman – Committed (1984)
1981-1990DramaLynne TillmanSheila McLaughlinUSAThe film COMMITTED, which Sheila McLaughlin realized together with Lynne Tillman, is not a biography of actress Frances Farmer but rather a fictional analysis of the same. It deals with the disturbed relationship between Farmer and her mother, the sociopolitical climate in the USA of the 30s and 40s, the role of psychiatry as an increasingly powerful determinant in this period and the destructive love story between a woman (actress) and a man (director). COMMITTED is conducted as a Film noir and a period piece – the latter of which is unusual for an independent film.Read More »
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Jean-Thomas Ceccaldi – Instantané d’histoire: Monsieur X, un Normand dans les maisons closes (2017)
2011-2020DocumentaryEroticaFranceJean-Thomas CeccaldiSynopsis
In the aftermath of the First World War, a 20-year-old Frenchman discovers the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, guided by a young Russian emigrant whom he met in the trenches of Verdun. Camera in the hand, he goes through the district of Montparnasse to meet the “little women of Pigalle”.
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Shingo Wakagi – Shirakawa yofune AKA Asleep (2015)
Japan2011-2020DramaEroticaShingo WakagiSYNOPSIS
Terako (Sakura Ando) is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga (Arata Iura) who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako’s friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long and wakes up only when Iwanaga calls her.Read More »









