• Georges Lautner – Le monocle noir AKA The Black Monocle (1961)

    Georges Lautner1961-1970ComedyCrimeFrance

    Synopsis:
    The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.Read More »

  • Cornel Wilde – Storm Fear (1955)

    Cornel Wilde1951-1960DramaFilm NoirUSA

    After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother’s mountain retreat. There he rekindles his romance with his brother’s wife and reconnects with the boy he believes is his son.Read More »

  • Chandra Barot – Don (1978)

    1971-1980ActionChandra BarotCultIndia
    Don (1978)
    Don (1978)

    IMDB wrote:
    When ruthless Don (Amitabh Bachchan) is killed by the police, the DSP (Iftekhar) is afraid that another “Don” will take over when the rest of the gang come of know of his death, so he, unbeknown to the rest of the police force, recruits Don’s look-alike Vijay (also Amitabh Bachchan) to become the real Don. Vijay is, at first reluctant, but when promised that two children he is caring for, will be looked after and educated, he agrees. He is successfully re-located back with his gang by feigning injuries, and loss of memory. He soon recuperates. Then fate takes an unexpected turn when the DSP is killed and Vijay becomes the suspect; his role as the Don ends, as his gang comes to know he is a fraud; Vijay must run for his life – both from the police and Don’s gang – for his life, and the life of the two children.Read More »

  • Tod Browning – The Mystic (1925)

    Tod Browning1921-1930CrimeSilentUSA
    The Mystic (1925)
    The Mystic (1925)

    A fantastically atmospheric but rarely seen missing link in the development of Tod Browning’s artistry, set amid his favored milieu of shadowy sideshows and clever criminals, The Mystic provides a striking showcase for silent-era diva Aileen Pringle, who sports a series of memorably outré looks (courtesy of art deco designer Erté) as Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man (Conway Tearle), crashes—and proceeds to swindle—American high society. Browning’s fascination with the weird is on full display in the eerie séance sequences, while his subversive moral ambiguity extends surprising sympathy to even the most seemingly irredeemable of antiheroes.Read More »

  • Tony Thompson – Elizabethan Express (1954)

    Tony Thompson1951-1960DocumentaryShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    Elizabethan Express (1954)
    Elizabethan Express (1954)

    A journey on the non-stop express from London to Edinburgh.Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono AKA My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1988)

    Nobuhiko Obayashi1981-1990ComedyDramaJapan
    Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono (1988)
    Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono (1988)

    It depicts a unique parent-child love through the appearance of a father and daughter reuniting for the first time in 15 years. A theatrical version of the tele feature aired on Nippon Television in 1988. The screenplay was co-written by Rio Kishida and Yo Saiki of “Prosperity of Vice.” The director is Nobuhiko Obayashi of “Futari”. The cinematographer is Yoshinao Sakamoto of “BEST GUY”.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Tudzhi AKA Cast Iron (1964)

    Otar Iosseliani1961-1970DocumentaryGeorgiaShort Film
    Tudzhi (1964)
    Tudzhi (1964)

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    Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.Read More »

  • William Rotsler – Street of a Thousand Pleasures (1972)

    William Rotsler1971-1980EroticaExploitationUSA
    Street of a Thousand Pleasures (1972)
    Street of a Thousand Pleasures (1972)

    From the DVD Packaging:
    As a reward for saving Sheik Abdul Ben Hassein from an assassin, American oil geologist John Dalton is taken to the spectacular STREET OF A THOUSAND PLEASURES, an amazing Mid-East slave market where potential buyers can feast their eyes on a veritable smorgasbord of feminine flesh! Everywhere you turn, everywhere you look, big beautiful bare buxotics are brazenly on display! Played by 71 of Hollywood’s Most Abundant Models — including the legendary Uschi Digart! — they’re all brought up-close and personal thanks to the Motion Picture Miracle of “Girl-A-Vision” which puts you in the picture! You become the eyes of the camera as it provides an amazing “hands-on” effect in which you are lovingly and literally submerged in skin! But watch out, that sinister assassin is still on the loose… Directed by William Rotsler (Mantis in Lace) under the moniker “Clay McCord” and released by Harry Novak (Please Don’t Eat My Mother!), STREET OF A THOUSAND PLEASURES is pure pulchritude paradise and about as far from Main Street USA as you can get without leaving the planetRead More »

  • Ki-duk Kim – Nabbeun namja AKA Bad Guy (2001)

    Ki-duk Kim2001-2010CrimeDramaSouth Korea
    Nabbeun namja (2001)
    Nabbeun namja (2001)

    In busy downtown Seoul, a thuggish young man notices a fresh-faced college student who sits on a bench. He stares then sits next to her. She looks at him as if he’s vermin, rises and walks to another bench. He sits staring. Her boyfriend arrives, she points to the stranger, the boyfriend shrugs and puts his arm around her to walk away. The stranger starts to leave as well, turns, goes to them, takes her face firmly in his hands and kisses her long and hard. The boyfriend tries unsuccessfully to break them apart, then soldiers beat the stranger. She demands an apology. He is silent. She slaps him and spits on him. They leave. The next day, he sets out to ruin her. How can this end?Read More »

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