1990s

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In a Paris cemetery, a handcuffed prisoner grieves at the grave of his sister Andy. In flashbacks, we see what happened. He’s arrested for smuggling an Ecstacy-like drug; to get money to help him, Andy takes a job in a mysterious call-girl ring run by the wealthy and secretive March. She’s goes to the American embassy for help as well, and she’s assisted by Stanley Esher, a nerdy but competent bureaucrat. To train for the sex ring, Andy is taught by a blind masseur and advised by Helga, the friend who recruited her. There’s also the drug, which can be stored in temporary tooth caps, released with a bite, and passed on with a kiss. Andy tries to outwit March, but the cemetery awaits.Read More »

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes,the ambience a boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and beans, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out New York, unlovely and violent.Read More »

This film recounts Henri Verneuil’s relationship with his father who had brought his Armenian family to Marseille, France, in order to escape from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The film’s principal cast includes Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif. It was preceded by Mayrig, the first autobiographical movie of Henri Verneuil.Read More »

Displaying a very personal sense of the humor of the baroque, pretty far from run-of-the-mill animation cuteness, Jannik Hastrup has a strong pulse of jazzy rhythms running through his fourth animation feature, a Romeo and Juliet tale of two fighting monkey clans, who don’t really know what all the feudin’ is about. the spice of social satire is, in secret weapon-style, sprinkled throughout.Read More »

Synopsis
Steeped in the bohemian cool of Chicago’s 1990s Black creative scene, love jones—the smart, sexy, and stylish debut feature of writer-director Theodore Witcher—is a love story for anyone who has ever wondered: How do I know when I’ve found the one? Larenz Tate and Nia Long have magnetism and chemistry to burn as the striving, artistically talented twentysomethings—he’s a poet, she’s a photographer—who spark over their love of literature and jazz, but whose mutual reluctance to commit to a relationship leaves them both navigating an emotional minefield of confusion, jealousy, and regrets.Read More »

Shortly after the once East Prussian, now Russian city of Tilsit, the Memel divides into a delta.

The widest branches of this delta, Ruß and Gilge, finally flow into the Curonian Lagoon. The river landscape is characterized by high soil moisture. Only a complicated drainage system allowed cultivation. The Gilge was also an important waterway. Today this drainage system is falling apart, the Gilge is silting up and the landscape is being renaturalized. Read More »

A documentary about two gay men as they live through their last months of life with AIDS.Read More »

A prestigious oncologist learns a valuable lesson in humility and is forced to reexamine his relationship with medicine and his life in general when Brandon, a young patient and convicted for murder, kidnaps him at gunpoint.Read More »

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This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, and he discovered how amazing R&B or Rhytym & Blues is, however, the music is considered to be “BLACK” music. So, most radio stations won’t play it. However, Freed believed that it’s the next wave, so he fights to have it played on the air. Eventually, he went into the big time – New York, and he decided to dub this music “ROCK & ROLL”. Despite his success, he still had a lot of opposition and made deals with the wrong people, which would lead to his downfall.Read More »