• Cheh Chang – Wu ming ying xiong AKA The Anonymous Heroes (1971)

    Cheh Chang1971-1980ActionComedyHong Kong
    Wu ming ying xiong (1971)
    Wu ming ying xiong (1971)

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    Meng Kang (David Chiang) and Tieh (Ti Lung) are shallow thrill seekers and friends whose goal it is in life to merely have a good time. These reckless youths are recruited to the side of the Chinese revolution by Wan (Ku Feng shedding his gray wig and mustache in a rare heroic role). Meanwhile, Marshall Chin (Cheng Miu), a high-ranking army official, secures a cache of 3000 rifles delivered from the nation of Japan. Marshall Chin intends to use these weapons to crush the rebel forces. Wan convinces Meng and Tieh to assist him in stealing the rifles away from the army. The task seems hopeless however, since Marshall Chin is aware of the spies in his midst and places the rifles under heavy guard. Three men alone cannot defy an entire army. Help arrives in the form of the beautiful and spunky Pepper (Ching Li), whose father is a captain of the guard. Read More »

  • Arizal – Final Score (1986)

    Arizal1981-1990ActionCultIndonesia
    Final Score (1986)
    Final Score (1986)

    A Vietnam War veteran who now living in Indonesia discovers that gunmen invaded his home, murdered his son and his wife. Vowing revenge, he begins to track down the culprits, learning that they’re in the employ of his business rival.Read More »

  • Kenji Misumi – Ken (1964)

    Kenji Misumi1961-1970ActionDramaJapan
    Ken (1964)
    Ken (1964)

    The second part of the ‘Sword’ trilogy by Kenji Misumi is an interesting story about a young man obsessed by kendo. Kokubu is a university student and has just been made captain of the kendo team, just ahead of Kagawa. Kokubu doesn’t think of anything other than kendo, this kind of upsets his fellow students, especially those that look up to him. Kagawa is the worst. He, having just lost the place for captain, gets obsessed by becoming a better kendo swordsman then Kokubu. Around his back, Kagawa is stirring up the anti-Kokubu sentiments in the group. He even charters his sister to seduce him. When the team goes into a trainingcamp led by Kokubu, things go awry…Read More »

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Sûîto Homu AKA Sweet Home (1989)

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa1981-1990HorrorJapan
    Sûîto Homu (1989)
    Sûîto Homu (1989)

    A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter’s wife.Read More »

  • Raoul Ruiz – L’Île aux merveilles de Manoël AKA Manoel on the Island of Marvels (1984)

    Raoul Ruiz1981-1990ArthouseFranceTV
    L'Île aux merveilles de Manoël (1984)
    L’Île aux merveilles de Manoël (1984)

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    When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy – the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one’s life, depending on decisions that are made early on.Read More »

  • Jun Fukuda – Densô ningen AKA The Secret of the Telegian (1960)

    1951-1960HorrorJapanJun FukudaSci-Fi
    Densô ningen (1960)
    Densô ningen (1960)

    PLOT: Men are being murdered by a psycho called “The Telegian,” who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.Read More »

  • Michael Pressman – The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)

    Michael Pressman1971-1980ActionExploitationUSA
    The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
    The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)

    Exploitation film vixen Claudia Jennings stars with Jocelyn Jones in this all-trash rip-off of Bonnie and Clyde with Jennings and Morgan playing a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into countryside banks with a carload of fresh dynamite. The story literally begins with a bang as Candy Morgan (Claudia Jennings) dynamites her way out of jail and proceeds to blow up a bank where Ellie-Jo Turner (Jocelyn Jones) has just lost her job. Candy and Ellie-Jo team up and go on a bank-robbing crime spree. When Ellie-Jo is detained for shoplifting, the outlaw girls take Slim (Johnny Crawford) as a hostage. Slim and Ellie-Jo become lovers and Slim joins the merry band, playing the role of hostage during the gals’ bank robberies. However, the law is slowly closing in on them.Read More »

  • Mikhail Kalatozov – Neotpravlennoye pismo aka The Letter Never Sent (1960) (HD)

    Mikhail Kalatozov1951-1960AdventureArthouseUSSR
    Neotpravlennoye pismo (1960) (HD)
    Neotpravlennoye pismo (1960) (HD)

    The film is based on the eponymous book by Valery Osipov. Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.Read More »

  • Franco Zeffirelli – I Pagliacci (1982)

    Franco Zeffirelli1981-1990ItalyMusicalPerformance

    The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown in a commedia dell’arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio.Read More »

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