Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin’s monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

Le.Divan.de.Staline.2016.FRENCH.720p.BluRay.x264-LOST.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 31mn
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DXVA:	Compatible
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Video
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Resolution:	1280x544
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Audio
French 5.1ch DTS @ 1 510 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/B4C594888EC9ED2/Le.Divan.de.Staline.2016.FRENCH.720p.BluRay.x264-LOST.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

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Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos’ Os Imortais (The Immortals) ironically opens with a funeral. The last of the immortals is present among the crowd, the others having died or disappeared over the years. The man being buried, however, is the policeman who found out about the criminal secrets of the immortals. This is an intriguing start for a mediocre film, in which this tongue-in-cheek sort of cleverness is reserved for the opening scene only. The “immortals” are a group of Portuguese war veterans who earned their title in the colonial wars in Africa in the early 1970s. When Portuguese East Africa became Mozambique, they returned to their fatherland only to feel left out and misunderstood. The soldiers were trained to not feel pain and not fear death and through their gruelling experiences this has become their second nature, a nature which is completely useless now in the streets of civilised Portugal. Every year, they come together for a week of remembering their past experiences and giving in to the urges of their second nature. For their week out in 1985, they organise a bank robbery that should have been a piece of cake but does not go entirely as planned. An almost retired police officer called Joaquim (Nicolau Breyner) stumbles across the innocent beginning of the case: one of the five immortals has chosen a stripper to accompany him on the week to the beaches of the Algarve where the robbery is planned, but she refuses to go with him and he slaps her in the face. She files a complaint of abuse and attempt to abduct her with Joaquim’s colleague, who is all set to replace Joaquim when he retires. Joaquim decides to investigate the case for himself in his spare time and soon finds out about the existence of the “Imortais” and becomes fascinated with them, partly because he has lost a son of his own in the African wars. The man who tried to pick up the stripper is Roberto Alua (Joaquim de Almeida) and he is now in desperate need of a woman since it is a habit of the immortals to bring a woman each and indulge in a week of sea, sand and sex besides their criminal activities. When Roberto is about to phone his accomplices to tell them he has no girl, he spots the smoking hot French lady Madeleine Durand (Emmanuelle Seigner, Roman Polanski’s wife) and decides she must be that girl. Joaquim, with the benefit of his entire career experience, is soon on the trail of this gang, though he is unfortunately not fast enough to prevent some nasty things from happening. A relationship of fascination and repulsion will grow between Roberto and Joaquim…

+Includes Director’s Commentary track (no subtitles available)

2.08GB | 2h 08m | 704×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/ACF43D720F4A5F6/Os.Imortais.2003.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv
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https://fikper.com/X3mMJGcw2O/Os.Imortais.2003.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese,French
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

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Synopsis:
In the middle of a harsh winter, Ursus, a colorful carnival boss, rescues two orphans lost in a storm: Gwynplaine, a young boy whose face is deformed by a scar that makes him look as though he’s constantly laughing, and Déa, a blind girl. A few years later, they travel throughout the land, performing a show of which Gwynplaine is the star.
People come everywhere to see The Man Who Laughs; he makes people laugh and enthralls the crowd. Success opens doors to the young man, he becomes famous and rich, thus distancing himself from the only two people in the world who love him for what he is.

1.47GB | 1h 33m | 1024×426 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A090E10A43C3BEF/The.Man.Who.Laughs.2012.576p.BluRay.x264-Typ.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English,French (muxed)

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British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship’s bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar’s cabin.

3.11GB | 2h 19m | 1024×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/773DCFCC8BDD656/Roman_Polanski_-_(1992)_Bitter_Moon.mkv

Language:English,French
Subtitles:None

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Plot Synopsis:
Two very violent men have conspired to steal a valuable solid gold image of an African deity from the museum in Mali where it is being kept. They had it smuggled out with a number of well-made but very cheap replicas. The plan was to give each of the replicas to the members of a new squash club as a diversion, and profit from the original (worth $1 million) themselves. There is a slip-up, however, and the real statue goes to one of the players. The deliveryman now has to track down all the statues, and in this antic caper comedy, that’s easier said than done. – Allmovie

1.32GB | 1h 37m | 576×320 | avi

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https://nitroflare.com/view/8076F44120D3030/La_divine_poursuite_aka_The_Gods_Must_Be_Daring.srt

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.

2.26GB | 1h 59mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D7C24B386290CE4/Frantic.1988.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English, French
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish (muxed)

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allmovie wrote:
A pair of American security operatives (Zach Cohen and Iftach Ofir) are on patrol in Afghanistan when they stumble upon a Taliban fighter (Vincent Gallo), who kills them despite his terror and nervousness. While trying to escape, the Afghan is captured by American forces; he’s tortured during interrogation, but doesn’t tell the Americans anything, in part because an explosion has made it difficult for him to hear what they’re saying. The Americans ship the Afghan off to a detention facility with a number of other Taliban soldiers, but upon arrival he’s able to escape. However, the Afghan finds himself in a forbidding snowbound climate, and with no provisions or warm clothing he struggles to simply survive as he avoids his pursuers and struggles to find some way to get home.

MUBI wrote:
Essential Killing, Jerzy Skolimowski’s exercise in pure filmmaking, begins with a helicopter shot following three US soldiers on patrol. The parched, desert-like landscape, riven by gullies and canyons, could be Iraq or Afghanistan. They are on the hunt for the enemy, and soon find him. Portrayed by Vincent Gallo, he is a tribal soldier, bearded with a turban, who could be Taliban or Al Queda. What follows is a struggle for survival that can also be read as a desperate fight for freedom, and Skolimowski is very careful to avoid any prescriptive interpretation of his narrative.

No one is named in Essential Killing and there is virtually no dialogue as we follow the capture, incarceration and interrogation of a “terrorist,” who is swept into a military system that controls his every moment. Hooded and shackled, stripped of his clothes and clad in bright orange prisoner overalls, he is shaved, questioned, tortured and beaten before being transported by plane to an unknown destination – which could not provide a greater contrast to his native environment. It is winter, snow is everywhere and the landscape is immense.

After making his escape in a moment of confusion, the rest of the film follows his trek into the snow-clad forests, pursued by helicopters, soldiers and dogs. With no food or water, his journey is one of sheer survival and a spirited bid for freedom. Skolimowski follows the grim, often surprising and occasionally hallucinatory adventures of a man who refuses to die or give up. It could well be a parable of what NATO is confronting in the grim struggle for Afghanistan.

Skolimowski’s visual imagination is stretched to the fullest, with the sheer magnificence of the landscape providing a beautiful, silent backdrop to the character’s heroic battle to stay alive. In a harrowing performance that must have been immensely physically demanding role, Gallo conveys reservoirs of courage and determination without uttering a single word.

1.70GB | 1h 24m | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D9F7B13E0DEB333/Essential_Killing_(2010)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language:English,Polish,Arabic
Subtitles:English (for non-English dialogue)

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