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Juraj (Jiri Sykora) is a recent graduate of the art institute who is uncertain about his future as a painter. His brother Andrej (Vlado Mueller) is the businessman who has the confidence his brother lacks but is troubled by his strained marriage to his wife.Read More »
Scientists in charge of a sophisticated, state-of-the-art, military satellite are being assassinated. It’s up to a team of federal agents to protect the last surviving scientist able to activate the satellite.Read More »
For two weeks, Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora’s Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora’s Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.Read More »
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While Portugal is still involved in the war in Africa, Carlos, a violinist, spends his summer vacation at the beach with a friend couple, Alda and Darius. The world seems far from them, which leads to the three, to experience the rites of friendship and loneliness.Read More »
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The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little while the two have an affair. Even after their affair is over, he hesitates, which has dire consequences for the two of them.Read More »
To prove himself to a love interest, a delivery boy learns dubious kung fu from an aging charlatan so he can challenge his archrival to a fight.Read More »
Based on Thomas Piketty’s No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century explores one of the most important and controversial subjects of our time: wealth, and who gets a share of the dividends.Read More »
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Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.Read More »
On a 4th of July weekend, three barnstorming skydivers arrive to perform in a small Kansas town. They are hosted by the youngest member Webson’s (Wilson) aunt, the unhappily married Elizabeth (Kerr). While Browdy (Hackman) one-nights with a topless dancer, a doomed romance flares up between Elizabeth and Rettig (Lancaster). Tension builds, and explodes with a spectacular skydiving show.Read More »