Sex games turn violent.

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Out of Frame (1996) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing and then showing them in explicit positions. You don’t see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bodies, listening to it, too. The framing by windows will allow you some rest. The man is putting on his clothes and closing the door while the woman is looking out oft he window. Read More »

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Set in the Ayutthaya Kingdom of the 16th century, King Chakra is going about his usual palace duties, granting audiences to his advisers, including his Lord Chamberlain who is keen to see the king fulfil his royal duty of taking 366 wives and who hopes that among them will be his daughter. However, the threat of invasion by the King of Honsa preoccupies King Chakra. The peace-loving King Chakra at first wants to negotiate for peace. But he is unsuccessful, and finds himself forced to go to war to stop the Honsa (Hanthawaddy) invasion.Read More »

From legendary Sci-Fi director Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon)… a glowing brain-like extra terrestrial communicates telepathically with the children of top-secret Air Force base in California. Dave Brewster (Adam Williams), an electronic technician arrives in town for a new job at the base with his wife, Anne (Peggy Webber) and their two children Bud (Michel Ray) and Ken (Johnny Crawford). The boys are drawn, along with the other children from the base to a lonely cave near the beach, where the kids start doing the alien’s bidding as the adults try to figure out what’s happening with their unruly offspring. The cast includes former child star Jackie Coogan (Chaplin’s The Kid), Ty Hardin (TV’s Bronco) and Russell Johnson (The Professor from Gilligan’s Island).Read More »

A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.Read More »

Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious construction made of mud. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his creation starts to take a life of its own.Read More »

Nora lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. As they move into an old apartment, unexplainable things start happening. Who is the woman making the mysterious phonecalls? Why doesn’t their dog want to set foot in the round room? Why does Nora keep hearing steps coming from the round room making her feel like someone is watching her? Nora’s search to find out about the people that used to live in her apartment, develops when she receives a package the content of which she alone is allowed to see. And the name Agnes Cecilia becomes a key in solving the mystery.Read More »

Though a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.Read More »

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him – incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis. Written by David StevensRead More »

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The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and skirts are put on the balcony for drying. The wind will carry everything away, just like the noise and music or the porn we watch with him later on TV (he prefers to look at western blonde women). What will happen when the young woman in her flat will have found out soon that he is looking at her (and listening to her) via the air-conditioning system?Read More »