Alex van Warmerdam – Nr. 10 (2021)
Plot: Günter, found in a German forest as a four-year old, grows up in a foster family. Four decades later, he leads a normal life: he earns a living as a stage actor, spends time with his daughter...
View ArticleDonald Shebib – Between Friends (1973)
An ex-con, his daughter, and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario. 2.10GB | 1h 30m | 720×540 | mkv...
View ArticleIsabelle Prim – La rouge et la noire AKA The Red and the Black (2011)
Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in...
View ArticleLili Fini Zanuck – Rush (1991)
SYNOPSISTwo small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment. Extras:01-Audio commentary by director Lili F...
View ArticleHellmuth Matiasek – Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1963)
There is more and more arson, with two arsonists pretending to be peddlers, asking for shelter in the attic and setting fires a little later. Shortly afterwards, a peddler rings the doorbell at...
View ArticleRobinson Devor – Police Beat (2005)
Police Beat is a highly unconventional crime film in which the protagonist Z is so preoccupied with his possibly unfaithful girlfriend that he never once acknowledges criminal world that swirls around...
View ArticleZoltán Fábri – Gyertek el a névnapomra AKA Housewarming (1983)
Zoltan Fabry’s last movie is based on Ferenc Karinthy’s play “Housewarning”. The economical and political stakeholders of a small town come together in a luxury villa on a name day celebration....
View ArticleClaude Mulot – La saignée AKA The Contract (1971)
A French waiter living in New York City witnesses a murder and must go on the run from the police and the mob. Letterboxd review★★★★ Watched by laird 09 Jun 2015 Boring English titles (The Contract or...
View ArticleSteven Soderbergh – The Limey (1999)
Quote:Two icons of 60s cinema, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, go head-to-head in Steven Soderbergh’s stylish reworking of the lone avenger theme. Stamp plays Wilson, an ageing Cockney villain newly...
View ArticleYasuzô Masumura – Yakuza zesshô AKA A Fine Yakuza Song AKA The Final Payoff...
A yakuza member’s half-sister means much more to him, in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however, soon...
View ArticleDenis Côté – Vic + Flo ont vu un ours AKA Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013)
Quote:Vic + Flow Saw a Bear is a darkly mysterious tale of lesbian two ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quite, the couple the...
View ArticleAlan Rudolph – Equinox (1992)
After a dip into the mainstream with Mortal Thoughts, the wildest card in American cinema is back on his own bizarre terrain. This modern urban fairytale is a beautifully ambivalent re-telling of The...
View ArticlePeter Dourountzis – Vaurien AKA Rascal (2020)
“A seductive and dangerous vagabond is the troubling protagonist of Peter Dourountzis’s first feature, a social thriller which has been awarded Cannes’ Official Selection.” ~Cineuropa Synopsis:He’s a...
View ArticleJean-Marie Straub – La guerre d’Algérie! (2014)
In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another’s gunpoint (we should add, that it is sound engineer, Dimitry Haulet, holds at gunpointcinematographer, Christophe Clavert. Such a...
View ArticlePatrick Tam – Zui hou sheng li AKA Final Victory (1987)
An affable guy gets more than he bargained more when he halfheartedly agrees to watch over the wife and the mistress of his incarcerated brother and gets trapped between the women in a love triangle –...
View ArticleGordon Parks – The Super Cops (1974)
Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want to do more than controlling the traffic. As penalty they are sent to Brooklyn. However they don’t give up, but...
View ArticleCarlos Saura – Deprisa, deprisa AKA Faster, Faster (1981)
Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers. Letterboxd reviewQuote:★★★★★ Watched by Remy_Renault 09 May 2014 Los Olvidados transplanted to Madrid. City of God’s...
View ArticlePierre Clémenti –À l’ombre de la canaille bleue AKA In the Shadow of the Blue...
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. An experimental crime film considered to be a...
View ArticleReginald Le Borg – Fall Guy (1947)
Tom Cochrane has no memory of the murder. What he remembers is a party, a few unusually powerful drinks, a blonde songstress, and then waking up woozy in an unfamiliar room where there’s a bloody...
View ArticleD.W. Griffith – A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Plot: A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain’s producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film...
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