1980s

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a popular movement is preparing to install itself in power.Read More »

A documentary about the life and work of Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg.Read More »

An eccentric and possibly brilliant young man, troubled by the death of his parents, claims to be readying a world-changing invention.Read More »

Désiré Ecaré’s ”Faces of Women” is a technically rough, cheerfully rude, folkloric comedy about the status of women in the Ivory Coast, where Mr. Ecaré was born and raised. It is, in fact, two separate fables with a common frame, that of a street festival where the singing and dancing is nonstop.

In the first story, a bored wife is accused by her tyrannical farmer-husband of having an affair with his younger brother, a nattily dressed layabout. The wife isn’t, but would like to. At her wit’s end, she takes karate lessons in order to best her husband physically.Read More »

Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler.Read More »

Tom Lyons, Eye Weekly said:
Jacob Miller reappears on the darkened stage not as a good-natured clown but as a possessed messenger. Peter Tosh spits out “400 Years” as if he is reading a death sentence to a condemned people. And Marley himself seems less a pop singer than a genuine messiah when he returns to the island to deliver classics like “War” and bring Manley and Seaga together onstage in an attempt to halt the bloodshed. Even seemingly innocuous songs like “Jammin’ ” and “Trenchtown Rock” take on an added dimension when they are viewed as wished-for escapes from the violence.Read More »

A very weird exploitation flick. The whole film seems to centre round a group of dominating male chauvinists abusing young Japanese models after a photo shoot. After which they are butchered one by one by a mud covered nutter with a gigantic penis who lives in a warehouse.Read More »

Kongpaeng leaves his poverty-stricken agricultural village for Bangkok. Lost in the big city, he flits between menial jobs. Meanwhile his wife barely survives on the money he sends home. Change is afoot however; the villagers begin to organize themselves against the corrupted officials who are keeping them in the poverty trap. Meanwhile Koenpaeng in the big city can also feel the wind of change.Read More »

Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.Read More »