Synopsis
Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes’ secret.

El.verano.de.la.senora.Forbes.1988.1080p.WEB-DL.teamICG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
Size: 	2.80 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/9281621CCB31F33/El.verano.de.la.senora.Forbes.1988.1080p.WEB-DL.teamICG.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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An innocent young man witnesses violence breaks out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions, a giant whale and a mysterious man named “The Prince”.

Werckmeister.Harmonies.2000.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SCOPE.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 26 min
Size: 	9.86 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/477BAC78C209F68/Werckmeister.Harmonies.2000.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SCOPE.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian, Slovak
Subtitles:English, German, French, Dutch

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Harry Baer plays a newly released ex-convict who slowly but surely finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. Meanwhile, his attentions are torn between two women (Hanna Schygulla and Margarethe von Trotta) and the friend (Günther Kaufmann) who shot his brother. This sensual, artfully composed film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a study of romantic and professional futility.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (1970) Gods of the Plague.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 31 min
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https://nitro.download/view/FDF95B935A84220/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder_-_(1970)_Gods_of_the_Plague.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/8049F9934F57648/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder_-_(1970)_Gods_of_the_Plague.fre.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, French

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NYT – Janet Maslin
THE great historical pageant that is Ettore Scola’s ”La Nuit de Varennes” unfolds with supreme ease. It begins with a series of casual coincidences and weaves them brilliantly into a vision of one of the most important moments in French history, a vision not the least bit limited by the specifics of its place and time.

The time is the French Revolution, and the occasion is the flight of the royal family from Paris to the small town of Varennes, where they will be captured and sent back to their deaths. But the feeling is utterly modern, or perhaps it’s timeless. The key issues of the film are the issues of any era. And the humor and generosity with which Mr. Scola presents them are correspondingly enduring.

”La Nuit de Varennes” begins as an Italian theatrical troupe offers re-enactments of Revolutionary scenes to the people of Paris, two years after the fact. It quickly shifts, with a rhythm and reason that are all its own, to the night of the King’s flight as it introduces Nicholas Edme Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), the writer who documented many of the events of the Revolution, and one of a number of historical personages who will follow in Louis XVI’s wake.

During a scene in a bordello, sketched by Mr. Scola with an earthy humor that figures throughout the film, Restif learns from a maid at the Royal Palace that the King may be attempting to escape from Paris. He follows along and soon becomes part of a group of travelers that includes one of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting (Hanna Schygulla), the wealthy industrialist De Wendel (Daniel Gelin), an Italian opera singer (Laura Betti), a wealthy widow (Andrea Ferreol), a prissy hairdresser (Jean-Claude Brialy) and others. Also eventually in the group, last but hardly least, are Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni) and Thomas Paine (Harvey Keitel).

All sides of the day’s issues are represented within this entourage, with the foremost ideological rift between the progressive Restif and Casanova, now an elderly gentleman who declares: ”I miss the sweeter times of yore, when all was harmony and light.” However, ”La Nuit de Varennes” is not a film about conflict, and it has no villains. It approaches the forces at work in the revolution even-handedly – with compassion for the peasants whose uprising is about to begin, and also with regret about the violent change that is on its way. Mr. Scola sees change as something that is forever necessary and forever incomplete, which means that only one or two characters in the film regard the imminent revolution with any overriding idealism. Idealism in this film is very much a young man’s attitude, and most of the characters are old enough to have a broader, more tolerant world view.

The historical characters speak in the voices that might be expected of them (Casanova: ”On his throne or not, no king ever made me miss a meal”), but they’re never in any danger of becoming puppets. The screenplay, by Mr. Scola and the late Sergio Amideo, never overstates the historical importance of any one event or individual. And so it accomplishes the small miracle of letting these figures exist, in equal measure, as characters within this story and as archetypes or legends. The small talk here is never small (the industrialist, telling a fellow voyager about the day he saw a worker fold his arms and refuse to do his job, calls this ”the most terrifying sight I ever saw”). But it is wonderfully casual at some times, quietly resonant at others, and always exquisitely delivered. If ”La Nuit de Varennes” offered nothing more than the ensemble acting on display, it would be major and memorable on that basis alone.

Of all the fine performances here, Mr. Mastroianni’s is the most dazzling, because he plays the vainest of men without bringing any of his own vanity to the role. This Casanova is on his last legs, rueful about the ways in which his body now disappoints him and yet forever interrupting conversations to powder his nose. He’s also a wonderfully gallant figure, and never one of whom the film makes fun; the friendship that develops between Casanova and Restif is one of the most moving things here. Miss Schygulla, whose lady-in-waiting is filled with serene faith in the crumbling order, brings an astonishing composure to her performance, and in her last scene Mr. Scola uses that quality stunningly. Mr. Keitel, Mr. Barrault and the rest of a cast that also includes Jean-Louis Trintignant are superb too. Mr. Trintignant plays the timid deputy mayor of Varennes who keeps the royal family in his home, worrying about his hospitality even as he agrees to have them sent back to Paris.

Mr. Scola’s direction of ”La Nuit de Varennes” isn’t overly elegant or schematic, and the film is all the fresher for that. His style is flexible without the slightest trace of gimmickry. When he sees the need for an odd lighting effect or a historical footnote, he simply tosses these things into a narrative that is otherwise simple, beautiful and straightforward. So Casanova can interrupt the story to tell us, while wearing a wool bonnet and sipping soup or tea, why he wasn’t very well known at the time the action takes place (his fame, he confides, came with the memoir ”published after my death, which, as you all know, occurred in 1798”). And the key figure of Restif can, at the end of the film, stride out of the past and into the present – which, as a representative of a work that both encapsulates and transcends history, is most assuredly where he belongs.

La.nuit.de.Varennes.1982.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 31 min
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https://nitro.download/view/F04B70543D74A34/La.nuit.de.Varennes.1982.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

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This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

	
Storia.di.Piera.(Marco.Ferreri.1983).DVDRip.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 47 min
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https://nitro.download/view/8EB3D57DC59382F/Storia.di.Piera.(Marco.Ferreri.1983).DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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PLOT: Hans is an ex-foreign legionnaire, ex-cop and a lifelong member of the middle-class. His family, especially his wife, derides him for his lack of ambition and his chosen profession: running a fruit stand. When a heart attack impedes his ability to work, his dissatisfaction turns into despair…

The Merchant of Four Seasons.1971.720p.CriterionBluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 28 min
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https://nitro.download/view/6F6EAA3D91A44D3/The_Merchant_of_Four_Seasons.1971.720p.CriterionBluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
A diagnosed manic-depressive whose impulsive behavior only serves to further isolate him from his increasingly irritated family and friends, Franz Brenninger (Josef Bierbichler) is a once-wealthy businessman who has since fallen on hard times. When Franz receives letter promising a healthy payoff if he simply allows millions of dollars to be transferred through his German bank account, he enlists the aid of Kurdish translator Leyla (Sibel Kekilli) and secures the 50,000 Euros needed to seal the deal, telling his trusting son Xaver (Philipp Hochmair) that he is going to use the cash to pay for his ailing wife Martha (Hanna Schygulla)’s much-needed eye surgery. Upon realizing that he has been scammed and has nothing left to lose, Franz quickly scrounges whatever funds he can gather and travels to Nairobi with Leyla in hopes of confronting the elusive con artist and getting the money back.

1.66GB | 1h 35m | 985×438 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D08D7270916423E/Winterreise.2006.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English, German (muxed)

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