• Peter Bezencenet & Terry Bishop – Bomb in the High Street (1961)

    1961-1970DramaPeter BezencenetTerry BishopUnited Kingdom

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    An English town is evacuated when an old German WW2 bomb is found. A bomb squad is called in to disarm it but the men have their own agenda. A runaway teen couple stumble on their activities. 60 minute British programmer.Read More »

  • Bert Haanstra – Glas AKA Glass (1958)

    1951-1960Bert HaanstraDocumentaryNetherlandsShort Film

    Synopsis:The Oscar for Glass was really the result of a film commission. I was given a commission to make an half hour film, in black and white about the glass making process. (“Over glas gesproken”, a simple, tradtitional but beautiful documentary.We came across a machine,and it was really clever, like the one with little grips that picked up a bottle and set it gently down elsewhere. Back again, another one, and that went wrong. That was funny to see, all of a sudden it was a stupid machine but for the sake of the factory I couldn’t show stupid machines. It couldn’t stay in. So I decided to make a film in colour for myself. I didn’t want any commentary in it and only jazz music played by Pim Jacobs. And that’s how it ended up.Read More »

  • Tohé Commaret – Because of (U) (2025)

    2021-2030DramaFranceShort FilmTohé Commaret

    In a bleak urban landscape, Laura silently suffers her boyfriend’s narcissistic behavior. Feeling isolated and lost, she desperately seeks meaning and connection amidst the concrete jungle, as life’s soundtrack echoes in the dista…Read More »

  • Ulrich Schamoni – Es AKA It (1966)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaGermanyUlrich Schamoni

    All Movie Guide wrote:
    A key figure in the New German Film movement, Ulrich Schamoni specialized in controversial satires beginning with his 1965 directorial debut Es (It), an ironic, but realistic portrayal of a counter-culture couple living in Berlin that critics dismissed as being too frivolous to be taken seriously. Undeterred, Schamoni made several more social satires, including a look at a family Christmas holiday All Jahre Weider (Every Year). In 1974, he caused controversy again with Chapeau Claque (TOP HAT), a tale of a lazy young businessman who would rather hang out in the pool of his father’s old mansion and live off his inheritance than work. German censors felt the film might have a negative influence on young people. By the mid-’80s, Schamoni had tired of directing and became involved with commercial media and the founding of a Berlin radio station.Read More »

  • Kenneth Branagh – Frankenstein AKA Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

    1991-2000DramaKenneth BranaghRomanceUSA

    When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.Read More »

  • Sylvain Estibal – When Pigs Have Wings AKA Le Cochon de Gaza (2011)

    2011-2020ArthouseComedyFranceSylvain Estibal

    imdb says:
    After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a “forbidden” animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar….Read More »

  • Mohamad Ali Fardin – Soltan ghalbha AKA King of the Hearts (1968)

    1961-1970DramaIranMohamad Ali FardinMusical

    A little girl with a blind mother, accidentally becomes friends with a famous and rich singer who decides to help her in her life.Read More »

  • Abel Ferrara – King of New York (1990)

    1981-1990Abel FerraraCrimeThrillerUSA

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    After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn’t going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition, he decides he’s going to give away the money he’ll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren’t the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down.Read More »

  • John Huckert – Hard (1998)

    1991-2000CrimeDramaJohn HuckertUSA

    When a series of brutal killings of young male hustlers awakens the police to the threat of a serial killer, rookie detective Raymond Fates (Noel Palomaria) and his seasoned partner detective Tom Ellis (Charles Lanyer) battle an intolerant police department that is indifferent to these “misdemeanor killings.Read More »

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