A hidden gem of Yugoslav and Croatian cinema. A masterpiece melodrama and a love story about two handicapped people, both victims of WWII. Directed by Branko Bauer.

Plot:
Shortly after the WWII, an one-legged chief engineer at the construction of hydroelectric power plant, and a war veteran, meets a blind girl in a mountain sanatorium of Ophthalmology, during winter. She’s waiting for a surgery that can restore her eyesight. Soon, the two fall in love with each other, but he feels unpleasant because of his handicap she’s not yet aware of…Read More »

The heroine of the title grows up. Slights, dance school, a cinema of glances, of tender moments, of trivial pop songs. A cinema which takes time, makes observations and which continuously finds or invents opposite picture sequences for loneliness and breaking free… (Written by Sixpack Film (Christian Cargnelli))Read More »

Olive Martin (Quirke), a heavily overweight young woman is convicted of killing and butchering her mother and sister and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, when she is assigned to write a book about her life, author Rosalind Leigh (Goodall) begins to develop a relationship with Olive and is soon convinced of her innocence. With the help of restaurant owner and former policeman Hal Hawksley (Fulford), she sets out to prove it and undo what she sees as a miscarriage of justice. However, all is not what is seems.Read More »

A come Andromeda is an Italian TV miniseries in five hour-long parts, broadcast in 1972 on RAI, the Italian state broadcaster. It was directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and adapted by Inisero Cremaschi from the book by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, itself adapted from the BBC’s 1961 series A for Andromeda by the same authors, which is now mostly lost. It stars Luigi Vannucchi, Paola Pitagora, Tino Carraro and Nicoletta Rizzi, with performances from Arturo Dominici, Mario Piave, Claudio Cassinelli, Gabriella Giacobbe, Enzo Tarascio, Giampiero Albertini, Sandro Tuminelli and others.Read More »

Ten strangers are invited to an isolated island. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization. Very soon, the guests will start to die one by one.Read More »

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The film is set in the Russian city of Stalingrad on the river Volga in 1942-1943. The Nazi Armies are over one million strong, when they reach Volga at Stalingrad, where the WWII pivotal battle is unfolding. The battle becomes the biggest military event in the history of WWII. Despite the immeasurable human losses on both sides, the battle is going on for many months, fueled by the draft and military propaganda from the leaders. After having the big city totally destroyed, the invading Nazi Armies are defeated and reduced to one hundred thousand POWs. The battle is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both German and Russian sides of the war. ( Written by Steve Shelokhonov)Read More »

Tel-Aviv 2020. A 2nd Covid lockdown is impending. After writing yet another article against prime minister Netanyahu, a journalist is flooded with hateful messages from right wing extremists. Meanwhile he tries in vain to get to his autistic son who lives in a hostel, while his daughter, who is at a protest turned violent, won’t answer the phone, sending him and his wife to Jerusalem to find her.Read More »

March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini’s black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts.Read More »

A documentary about ‘van vdo’ , the vhs shop in 1990s the shop established the independent cinema scene for the audience by selling vhs of Indie American, European, Asian films. however, all of them is pirate and illegal.Read More »