• Jesús Franco – Der Heiße Tod AKA 99 Women [French X-rated version] (1969) 

    Jesus Franco1961-1970EroticaExploitationSpain

    Synopsis:
    New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women’s sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and submitted to torture, rape and lesbianism. When the Minister of Justice replaces Diaz by Leonie Caroll, Marie believes that her life will improve and her case will be reopened. However, Marie is disappointed with the new warden and decides to escape with two other inmates. But their runaway scheme fails and the three women are chased not only by the guards, but also by male prisoners that have not seen women for many years.Read More »

  • Idrissa Ouedraogo – Tilaï AKA The Law (1990)

    1981-1990African CinemaBurkina FasoDramaIdrissa OuedraogoRomance

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    Tilaï opens to a long sequence, off-axis shot of a lone traveler moving away from view as he slowly traverses the arid, featureless plain on a lumbering, overburdened mule and disappears into the desolate horizon. It is an appropriately distanced and alienated introduction for the weary, but sanguine Saga (Rasmane Ouedraogo) who, after an extended journey away from his native village, has returned to the foreboding sight of anxious villagers assembled at a clearing near the entrance of the intimate community. Greeted by his brother Kougri (Assane Ouedraogo) who heads off Saga at the footpath to the village on behalf of the family, Kougri informs him of an unforeseen (and reprehensible) development during his absence: the marriage of his beloved Nogma (Ina Cissé) to their father Nomenaba (Seydou Ouedraogo), having changed his mind and taken the reluctant young woman – once promised to Saga by the old man himself – as his second wife.Read More »

  • Hans-Christian Schmid – 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint AKA 23: Nothing Is What It Seems (1998)

    Drama1991-2000GermanyHans-Christian SchmidThriller

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    The movie’s plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his inheritance in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson’s “Illuminatus”, but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl’s rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking – he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.Read More »

  • Bogdan George Apetri – Miracol (2021)

    2021-2030Bogdan George ApetriCrimeDramaRomania

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    A young nun sneaks out of her monastery to attend an urgent matter but never makes it back and a police detective’s investigation into her fate, uncovers clues and revelations that lead not only to the truth but a miracle as well.Read More »

  • Piers Haggard – Quatermass (1979)

    1971-1980Piers HaggardSci-FiTVUnited Kingdom

    A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass 4-part miniseries. The story, set in the near future, involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular, sinister cult called “Planet People” that “performs raptures.”Read More »

  • Amos Gitai – Ana Arabia (2013)

    Amos Gitai2011-2020DramaIsrael

    Filmed in one sequence shot of 81 minutes, this virtuosic film draws back the curtain on a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave surrounded by mass public housing near Jaffa. A young journalist (Yuval Scharf, intelligent and glamorous) visits them and discovers, among the dilapidated shacks and an orchard of lemon trees, a range of characters far removed from the usual cliches of the region. Compelling performances by Sarah Adler, Assi Levy, and Yussuf Abu-Warda shed light on private dreams and desires. From internationally acclaimed director Amos Gitai (Berlin Jerusalem NYJFF 1993, Kedma NYJFF 2003, Alila NYJFF 2004, News from Home / News from House NYJFF 2007).Read More »

  • Lina Wertmüller – Io speriamo che me la cavo AKA Ciao, Professore! (1992)

    Lina Wertmüller1991-2000ComedyItaly

    Marco Sperelli is a teacher, he is divorced and he is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. The first day of work he finds in the school only the school-caretaker and few girls and boys in the class-room. He goes out looking for them and he discovers then a wretched life led by the boys and the girls of Corzano. A life in which only power and violence are worth respecting. Sperelli tries to teach something different but he gets their respect only by slapping Raffaele, on the way to became a camorrist. His presence and his work, however, disturb too many persons and he will be transferred.Read More »

  • Duilio Coletti – I sette dell’orsa maggiore AKA Hell Raiders of the Deep (1953)

    1951-1960DramaDuilio ColettiItalyWar

    A team of Italian divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal Navy ships at anchor in Gibraltar harbour.Read More »

  • Nobuyuki Saitô – Osowareru onna kyôshi AKA Attacked Female Teacher (1983)

    1981-1990DramaEroticaJapanNobuyuki Saitô

    Quote:
    A woman with a past that was raped in her school days and broke up with her lover due to it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she has dangerous after-school liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment. However, the hollow of her heart cannot be filled with only carnal desire. One day, she encounters her old lover by chance, and a turning point comes to her… Roman Porno depicting a nasty private life without fear of a female teacher!Read More »

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