The plot revolves around a brother and sister, who are staying with their aunt and uncle. There world is forever changed when a Cambodian boy comes to stay with them until he is able to be placed with a family permanently. The trio quickly become friends and daily they venture off into the woods near their home. One day they meet a crippled man who used to be a railroad engineer. They get this man to help them restore and teach them how to drive an abandon train they discover in the woods. The trio plan to take the train to Cambodia, so Hoang their Cambodian friend can reunite with his mother.

Throughout the film ‘the brother’ character, who’s name is Toby. He often day dreams and these are some of the most entertaining moments in the film. He becomes a racer driver, a performer in the circus and a super hero in space. This film’s stand out performance comes from Mickey Rooney (Breakfast at Tiffany’s), who is cast in the role of a retired railroad engineer who is crippled. There is a child like quality that he brings to the character that makes the character all the more endearing. Ultimately Treasure Train is easily Fernando Arrabal’s gentlest film. In fact it is a film that is heavily geared towards children and the young at heart.

The Emperor of Peru.1982.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
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https://nitro.download/view/489AC9377A53D7C/The_Emperor_of_Peru.1982.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):English, French
Subtitles:English

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Based on Arrabal’s play of the same name, Car Cemetery is sort of an eighties punk rock version of the Christ story. We follow the life of a messianic figure from birth through to his death although instead of taking place in and around the Middle East it’s set in a post apocalyptic garbage dump full of rusty, broken down cars and it’s populated by various degenerates – pimps, prostitutes, and other nefarious types.

Our messiah this time around is named Emanou (Alain Bashung) and his goal is to put on a rock concert for the citizens of the junkyard into which he was born. Of course, the powers that be see him as a threat and while he does go around making the world around him a better place, eventually he is betrayed and his people turn on him.

Those more familiar with Arrabal’s earlier efforts will feel right at home with this picture. It lacks much of the violence that made films like Viva La Meurte as shocking and powerful as they are but it’s definitely a showcase for Arrabal’s penchant for the bizarre. The plot is pretty basic and it’s really just made up of a series of set pieces lifted from The Bible, but he puts enough of his own spin on it that it’s always interesting and just unfamiliar enough that you’ll want to see how it plays out. On a visual level the film feels a bit dated and its eighties roots and heritage show through in the fashions, hairstyles and mannerisms (80s punk fashion hasn’t aged nearly as well as 70s punk fashion has) but that doesn’t really hurt the film much, it simply labels it as a product of its time.

There doesn’t really seem to be much of a point to the picture, instead it feels like a strange piece of art for art’s sake, but for some that’ll be reason enough. The sets look very stagey and you definitely feel as if you’re watching a play more so than a movie but Bashung’s performance as the savior of the trash heap is a good one. There’s plenty of social commentary to feast on and no shortage of bizarre visuals and imagery to enjoy and this is by far the most interesting film in the set.

Fernando Arrabal - (1981) Car Cemetery.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 26 min
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https://nitro.download/view/1736313D8CFD2CE/Fernando_Arrabal_-_(1981)_Car_Cemetery.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Russian

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The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count’s son, indifferent to politics at the outset, later makes a choice; the town’s teacher, Antonio Garcia, a pacifist, tries not to take sides but to inspire the children with ideas; a beautiful eccentric woman, Vandale, brings leadership and strength to the town; dwarfs long for equality. The fictive story of Villa Ramiro is inter-cut with archival footage of the war itself. The town is near Guernica, and the local Republicans draw inspiration from its freedom tree.

1.51GB | 1h 38m | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8936EDD6EAAEDE4/The.Guernica.Tree.1975.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/D937F8B4FEE56C6/The.Guernica.Tree.1975.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/0F12F60B51690F6/The.Guernica.Tree.1975.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father’s arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father’s arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what’s going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad’s natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother’s nature and his father’s fate. Will Fando survive the search?

1.32GB | 1h 26m | 796×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A0D061F74E7BB7D/Viva.la.muerte.1971.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/607DD591E2905C8/Viva.la.muerte.1971.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/611B15414CF0B49/Viva.la.muerte.1971.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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