1970s

Gripped by sexual desire, nuns pleasure themselves and each other in fear of the Mother Superior. One night, a wounded man is found on the grounds, and becomes connected to a mysterious pagan statue on the premises.Read More »

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The peasants of Mexico have a need for a protector, whether it be El Super Barrio or, as in this movie, the Christlike Auandar Anapu. In the movie, an indio wearing overalls and clogs appears among the poor; he raises the dead, and saves a woman from being stoned to death. Eventually, a mercenary soldier arranges to kill him, but Auandar Anapu promises to reappear from time to time, whenever he is most needed.Read More »

A companion piece to the earlier Stone Wedding. Using the same structure of two loosely interlinked stories, the film is a darkly humorous study of greed in a small prospecting town where everyone is obsessed with, and motivated by, gold. Exceptionally beautiful, the film is full of extraordinary set design and photography, making inventive use of focus and composition (with characters frequently framed within frames).Read More »

A perverted loner roams the rafters of a boarding house in 1920s Tokyo in Watcher in the Attic, directed by one of the Nikkatsu‘s top Roman Porno filmmaking talents, Noboru Tanaka, peeping on the unusual sexual antics of its residents in this dreamlike tale of voyeurism, obsession and murder drawn from the “erotic grotesque” literature of Japan’s foremost master of mystery and the macabre, Edogawa Rampo.Read More »

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Set in 1918 Ontario, The Far Shore employs both melodramatic conventions and experimental formal strategies to tell the tale of Eulalie, a Quebecoise woman, and her love affair with Tom McLeod (a thinly veiled fictionalization of Canadian painter Tom Thomson).Read More »

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Willie discovers in a manuscript that a treasure lies buried in a rock and that whoever is prepared to make a human sacrifice will see the rock open up and reveal its treasure. Willie locates the rock, but the victim (who must be a young girl) is nowhere to be found. Then, one day, when he least expected it, a girl stands before him, resplendent… Ironically, he falls deeply in love with her.Read More »

An ex-cop discovers that his brother’s recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city’s porno movie scene.Read More »

Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he’s in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He’s charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn’t embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she’s young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realize he’s used her to make a fortune?Read More »

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A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.Read More »