• Zivko Nikolic – Jovana Lukina (1979)

    Zivko Nikolic1971-1980DramaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Jovana Lukina (1979)
    Jovana Lukina (1979)

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    A beautiful young woman lives with her husband in a rocky Montenegrin terrain. The different people who travel by their house share their fates with them, thus generating the evil inside her, and destroying her view of marriage as an idyllic process.Read More »

  • Max Ophüls – Yoshiwara (1937)

    Max Ophüls1931-1940ClassicsDramaFrance
    Yoshiwara (1937)
    Yoshiwara (1937)

    The daughter of a Japanese nobleman sells herself as a geisha in order to save her family from poverty and dishonour when her father dies leaving debts. She meets and falls in love with a Russian naval officer, but their romance is threatened by the love of a jealous servant, and by the espionage mission that the officer has been assigned to.Read More »

  • Abram Room – Yevrei na zemle aka Jews on the Land (1927)

    Abram Room1921-1930DramaSilentSoviet silent cinemaUSSR
    Yevrei na zemle (1927)
    Yevrei na zemle (1927)

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    A 20-minute documentary of Jewish settlement in the Yevpatoria district of the Crimea. Exhibiting a certain amount of Jewish irony, Jews on the Land opens with scenes of a war-devastated shtetl (all that is left of the central market is a single pathetic fish stall), than shows an elderly Jew wandering about an even more desolate wilderness. Soon, however, sod-brick settlements rise and, as irrigation ditch criss-cross the once –barren plain, the now- productivised Jews are equally transformed: a new-born baby is named Forget-You-Sorrow. Tractor drivers and Young Pioneers’ are given particular pride of place and the film-makers emphasise that, among other livestock, these new Jewish peasants are raising pigs.
    “Inside the film factory” by Richard Taylor, Ian ChristieRead More »

  • Nick Millard – Les Chic (1972)

    Nick Millard1971-1980EroticaUSA
    Les Chic (1972)
    Les Chic (1972)

    A look at the life of Les Chic, a “groovy” San Francisco gigolo, as he engages in various sex acts with a variety of women.Read More »

  • José Luis Cuerda – Tiempo después (2018)

    José Luis Cuerda2011-2020ComedySci-FiSpain
    Tiempo después (2018)
    Tiempo después (2018)

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    In a post-apocalyptic future, the whole world has been reduced to one official building where the establishment lives and a few outskirts counting thousands of unemployed. Among them, a man decides to change the world by selling lemonade in the official building.Read More »

  • Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – San Domingo (1970)

    Hans-Jürgen Syberberg1961-1970DramaGermany
    San Domingo (1970)
    San Domingo (1970)

    “This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man’s parents for money. She falls in love with the young man but the group continues to extract money from the parents in return for their wayward son. When he discovers the shakedown, his rage leads to tragedy for the star-crossed lovers.”
    by Dan PavlidesRead More »

  • Kurt Barthel – Fräulein Schmetterling AKA Miss Butterfly (1966)

    1961-1970ComedyDramaGermanyKurt Barthel
    Fräulein Schmetterling (1966)
    Fräulein Schmetterling (1966)

    A poetic, modern fairy-tale about the desire for personal fulfilment: Following their father′s death, 18-year-old Helene and her little sister have to adjust to the radically changed situation. The authorities sign Helene up for different jobs, but she constantly fails their demands. Only when Helene finally learns how to express her dreams, she is able to free herself from the paternalism of others.

    Production of the film was stopped in 1966. In 2005, the existing material was assembled in chronology.Read More »

  • Arne Mattsson – Vaxdockan AKA The Doll (1962)

    Arne Mattsson1961-1970FantasyHorrorSweden
    Vaxdockan (1962)
    Vaxdockan (1962)

    A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store’s mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life…Read More »

  • D.W. Griffith – The Golden Supper (1910)

    D.W. Griffith1901-1910DramaSilentUSA
    The Golden Supper (1910)
    The Golden Supper (1910)

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    Lionel and Julian both love Camilla, but she marries Lionel. After half a year, she falls ill and dies. Julian visits her in the tomb, and kissing her hand seems to bring her back to life. Back at the palace, Lionel is nowhere to be found. His heartbreak has prompted him to become a hermit. When Julian sees how Camilla is suffering from Lionel’s absence, he decides to look for him. During a golden feast in honour of Camilla’s return, Lionel comes home. After a touching reunion, the generous Julian once again remains alone.Read More »

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