• Dan Milner – From Hell It Came (1957)

    1951-1960Dan MilnerHorrorSci-FiUSA

    Beware Tabonga! On a remote South Seas island, no one is safe from this hideous…and unique…monster. Tabonga is part man, part tree, all doom. Formerly an island prince, he was unjustly put to death by a witch doctor. Now he’s returned to life with roots, branches and a vengeance. Against natives. Against visiting American scientists who investigate the tree’s radioactive green sap. Against anyone unwise enough to expect a tree to stay put. A macabre medley of creature feature, Polynesian kitsch and Atomic Age cautionary tale, From Hell It Came is the killer-tree movie you woodn’t want to miss!Read More »

  • Stephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel AKA Death and Devil (1974)

    Stephen Dwoskin1971-1980ExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    PLOT: The action of the film evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting & The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.’
    Based on the German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play Tod Und TeufelRead More »

  • Franklin Adreon – Cyborg 2087 (1966)

    Franklin Adreon1961-1970Sci-FiUSA

    Earth’s civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.

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    Garth A7 (Michael Rennie), a cyborg from the future world of 2087, travels back in time to 1966 to prevent Professor Sigmund Marx (Eduard Franz) from revealing his new discovery, an idea that will make mind control possible and create a tyranny in Garth’s time. He is pursued by two “Tracers” (also cyborgs) out to stop him.Read More »

  • Yoshikazu Katô – Twin Blades of the Ninja (2007)

    2001-2010ActionEroticaJapanYoshikazu Katô

    Two women in training to become deadly ninja assassins decide to use their skills to pickpocket a wealthy looking samurai. However, they soon find themselves caught up in a dangerous situation that requires a very special secret weapon to escape-specifically, their impressive physical attributes.Read More »

  • Juho Kuosmanen – Salaviinanpolttajat AKA The Moonshiners (2017)

    2011-2020ComedyFinlandJuho KuosmanenShort Film

    Synopsis
    The first Finnish film was made in 1907, but sadly lost forever. So to mark the 100th anniversary year of the Finnish independence, film has now been remade by Juho Kuosmanen (THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI) following several silent film traditions: shot on B&W 16 mm film and performed with live music and a live foley artist. In the film two siblings inherit all the essentials for a good life: moonshine equipment and a pig. As they embark on their journey, business is good until a card shark arrives.Read More »

  • Abel Gance – J’accuse! AKA I Accuse! (1919)

    1911-1920Abel GanceFranceSilentWarWorld War One

    Edith, a young French woman, is in love with a poet but is forced by her father into a marriage with a much older man. Edith is captured by the Germans and endures multiple rapes that result in her becoming pregnant. Edith’s husband initially thinks that the poet is the father of her child, and the story ends in tragedy with both men seeing action in the trenches.Read More »

  • Heiner Carow – Karriere AKA Career (1971)

    Drama1971-1980ArthouseGermanyHeiner Carow

    Günter Walcher is an average, apolitical, working-class West German citizen caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to division head—on the condition that he find a reason for Zacharias, the work council chairman and a communist, to get fired. Walcher thinks back on another situation where he was lead to do something he believed to be wrong: when he was a member of the Hitler Youth, he became responsible for someone’s death.Read More »

  • Menelik Shabazz – Time and Judgement (1988)

    Documentary1981-1990Menelik ShabazzUnited Kingdom

    This genre-bending sci-fi documentary from pioneering filmmaker Menelik Shabazz spans four hundred years to tell the story of the African liberation movement. Chronicling the tribulations and triumphs of people of African descent in and out of Africa, with a special focus on the struggles of the last century, TIME AND JUDGEMENT features extensive footage of movements in the Caribbean, Africa, America, and Europe and offers critical political analysis of leaders such as Maurice Bishop of Grenada; Walter Rodney of Guyana; Jesse Jackson, Kwame Ture (a.k.a. Stokley Carmichael), and Louis Farrakhan of the United States; Samora Machel of Mozambique; Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana; Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey of Jamaica; and others. Through a blending of theater, poetry, music, and painting, the film establishes a connection between biblical prophecy and the times we are living in, leading to a final confrontation between the forces of greed and love.Read More »

  • Martin Gabel – The Lost Moment (1947)

    1991-2000DramaFilm NoirMartin GabelUSA

    A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet to find his lost love letters.Read More »

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