Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Fargo (1996)
Plot summary: Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan to hire someone to kidnap his wife and demand ransom from her wealthy father, to be secretly split...
View ArticleJesus Franco – Rote Lippen, Sadisterotica aka Two Undercover Lovers [+Extras]...
“Red Lips” are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers....
View ArticleDarezhan Omirbayev – Tueur à gages AKA Killer (1998)
Quote: Darezhan Omirbaev (Kairat, Kardiogramma) directed this French-Kazakh film about a young man driven to the precipice in an uncaring world. Marat (Talgat Assetov) works as a chauffeur for a...
View ArticleAlfred Zeisler – Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier AKA The Shot in the Talker...
IMDB: During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his...
View ArticleMichel Audiard – Elle Boit Pas, Elle Fume Pas, Elle Drague Pas, Mais… Elle...
the AMG wrote : “This offbeat satirical comedy finds a beautiful and talkative housekeeper (Annie Girardot) working for several colorful employers. One is a former prostitute living with a prominent...
View ArticleTerence Fisher – Wings of Danger (1952)
Quote: “A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes...
View ArticleMontgomery Tully – Terror Street aka 36 Hours [+Extras] (1953)
Quote: “A U.S. Air Force pilot becomes the logical suspect after his wife is shot and killed. The thirty-six hours he has to clear himself are filled with twists and turns culminating in an exciting...
View ArticleAnh Hung Tran – Xich lo AKA Cyclo (1995)
A “cyclo” is a bicycle-drawn taxi similar to a rickshaw, and, in this story, the nickname of an 18-year-old boy trying to scrape together a living in the desperate poverty of Ho Chi Mihn City. Cyclo...
View ArticleJoseph Kane – Accused of Murder (1956)
Story Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing. http://rapidgator.net/file/477fbb8099d7db38754c227454dba61c/Accused_of_Murder.avi.html...
View ArticleJoseph Kane – The Man Who Died Twice (1958)
Storyline A nightclub singer loses her husband in an automobile accident, and soon afterward witnesses the murders of two narcotics agents, and suffers a nervous breakdown. The police come to believe...
View ArticleJoseph Kane – Hoodlum Empire (1952)
Quote: John Russell plays Joe Gray, a gangster who learned the truth about The American Way from his buddies during WW2 and, after distinguished service, decided to go straight. But his former...
View ArticleJean Grémillon – L’Étrange Monsieur Victor AKA Strange M. Victor (1938)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote this : In his finest work, including this masterful 1938 noir, the remarkable French filmmaker Jean Gremillon (1901-1959), trained as a composer and musician, used mise en...
View ArticleMikael Marcimain – Call Girl (2012)
Call Girl is set in the late 1970s – a time time of women’s liberation, sexual revolution, Swedish neutrality, nuclear power and social security. The film takes us on a trip from the very bottom of...
View ArticleRussell Birdwell – The Come On (1956)
Plot Summary: A manipulative female con artist gets entangled in her own web of deceit. “http://keep2share.cc/file/520159434abe1/The.Come.On.1956-XviD.VHS-rip.avi...
View ArticleRobert Altman – The Long Goodbye (1973)
SYNOPSIS: Director Robert Altman, famous for his ability to turn any genre inside out, takes aim at film noir with this evocative adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel. Altman’s Philip Marlowe...
View ArticleJacques Becker – Le Trou AKA The Hole (1960)
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Le Trou (literally, The Hole) is a harrowing experience in claustrophobia, pressure and hope among inmates in a French prison. The hopes and aspirations of the overcrowded...
View ArticleFernando Di Leo – Avere Vent’anni aka To Be Twenty (1978)
Avere vent’anni (To Be Twenty) – (the title refers to the famous phrase at the beginning of Paul Nizan’s book, Aden Arabia: I was twenty years old. I will never allow anyone to say that these are the...
View ArticleDavid Lynch – Blue Velvet (1986)
What separates this release from the previous is the extras. They begin with a new 70-minute documentary called Mysteries of Love, a high-gloss look back at the production of the film. It’s divided...
View ArticleJunya Sato – Ningen no shômei AKA Proof of the Man (1977)
Synopsis: When an American tourist named Jonny Hayward mysterious dies while on vacation in Tokyo. A Japanese detective named Munesue goes to New York City looking for a wanted man who fled Japan who...
View ArticleBoris Ingster – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Plot Synopsis: Though he doesn’t speak his first line of dialogue until the film’s final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the fascinating RKO melodrama Stranger on the Third Floor. The...
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