Summary:
To satisfy her lover’s fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko’s mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher@IMDBRead More »
Four Harlem friends – Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem – dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn’t willing to take no for answer in a game where everything’s for keeps.Read More »
A documentary about the people who visit a cemetery, and a testament to the saying, life is short, art is long. Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some – such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin – are worshiped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer.Read More »
Synopsis
The film depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurdist feel.Read More »
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The film is based on one chapter from Fazil Iskander`s epic Sandro from the Village of Chegem. It tells a story about one feast of Josef Stalin and his closest entourage. Sandro from the village of Chegem appeared as an Abkhaz folk dancing performer at this feast. This routine performance turned into a nightmare after he returned home as the purges of artists who attended the feast were about to begin. The year was 1935…Read More »
When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of MontaltoDi Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally newworld, an ambient extremely divided politically. She starts developing her friendship with the”left side”, represented by Margherita, and the right, Daniela, side of her class. She will loseherself, without knowing who she really is. However, maybe Edward, the young Australianboy, who lives in the apartment across hers, can help her more that she thinks.Read More »
During a memorial for his father, WW II hero Major James Prentis confesses a dark family secret to his son, something he has harbored for more than 20 years.Read More »
Synopsis: A teenage boy that had early sexual encounters is having trouble finding them now, and spends a lot of time fantasizing about the women he knows. When a beautiful new girl comes to town, he makes a bet with the other guys that he can get her into bed within 10 days. His chief rival stacks the deck, though, by threatening to expose the new girl’s sordid past (she was wrongly accused of being involved in an orgy at her previous school) if she sleeps with our hero. Confused about his situation, the boy seeks counsel from the sexy older woman across the street, and she helps him come to terms with his predicament. Read More »
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.Read More »