1970s

Lemuel Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.Read More »

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it’s in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.Read More »

Directed by Hiromichi Horikawa, this tragedy follows a terminally ill girl, featuring standout performances from Eri Ishida, Kyōko Kagawa, and Frankie Sakai — Kagawa earning a Japan Academy nomination for Best Supporting Actress.Read More »

imdb:The story follows a group of women in a maternity ward for women with complicated pregnancies. The women have different ages and background, but in spite of their differences they develop a special bond. They go through ups and downs together, while each of them wait for their children to be born, with both hope and fear.Read More »

In Istenmezeje, a small village in the county of Heves, time appears to be standing still.
The majority of young people who have just finished local elementary school,
are willing to fall in line with pressure from the community,
and follow the paths taken by their parents and grandparents:
the boys go to work in the mine, the girls get married.Read More »

Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers in , he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of Frrench drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane’s. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse…Read More »

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne’s husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre’s wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne’s husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre’s wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will “benefit the town”, and wants Pierre’s political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife’s affair…Read More »

A compelling and revealing exploration of one person’s psyche in crisis: combines elaborate split-screen and multi-voice soundtrack to produce a self-portrait at once satiric and poignant.Read More »

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The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.Read More »