Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.Read More »

Follows Nora and her sister Agnes as they mourn the loss of their mother and adjust to the return of their father Gustav. Gustav has written a script and offered the main part to his daughter Nora, but she categorically refuses the role.Read More »

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Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.Read More »

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THE BOY SEES THE FATE OF MEN. THE GIRL KNOWS HOW WOMEN’S LIVES ARE.

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family’s situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.Read More »

A curious girl investigates the cries she hears coming from a forbidden house across the street.Read More »

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J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade’s younger brother “Chick” wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman’s supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade’s hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade’s gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now. Read More »

A musical, semi-documentary motion picture considering the making of “Shablul”, a rock album by Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch. The film demonstrates fragments of being, a few funny sketches and musical numbers, much affected by The Beatles’ flicks. “Shablul” reminds its viewers the taste of 60s, showing them the Israeli pop/rock scene of these jolly years.Read More »

Marieke wants to live her life. But how can she succeed if love has been taken away from her? She seeks warmth in the arms of much older men to find the strength to face the past and finally be herself. Marieke is 20 years old. She lives with her mother, Jeanne, a woman left cold and distant ever since her husband died. During the day, Marieke works in a Brussels chocolate factory. At night, she escapes into the arms of much older men. With them she feels strong, cherished and free. The arrival of Jacoby, a book editor living abroad, searching for her father’s last manuscript, upsets Marieke’s precarious balance. Her mother does everything in her power to keep them apart. She fears that he will reveal the secret that has remained hidden for so many years. Marieke falls in love with Jacoby but devastated by the truth of her father’s death, she sinks despair. Will she find the strength to accept the truth and live anew?Read More »

A bitter look back at responsibility for the war, a new interpretation of democracy as popular justice instead of license, and encouragement for women to assert themselves. A widow with three sons and an outspoken daughter relies on her militarist brother-in-law to manage the family during the war. The oldest son is jailed for pacifist thoughts, and the uncle breaks his niece’s engagement as a result. The two younger sons are drafted and both die, and by the end of the war the widow realizes that her brother-in-law’s counsel has all been self-aggrandizement. She throws him out and joyfully receives her newly released pacifist son as morning dawns for the liberal family.

Winner of Kinema Jumpo #1 for the year 1946.Read More »