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Made at the height of Anna May Wong’s fame in Europe, Pavement Butterfly was a coproduction between Germany and Britain and filmed on location in Nice, France. In this silent film, Wong plays a dancer in the French Riviera who, after her act takes a deadly turn, finds refuge in the arms of a young painter.Read More »
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Richard Eichberg – Großstadtschmetterling AKA City Butterfly (1929)
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Léa Mysius – Les cinq diables AKA The Five Devils (2022)
Léa Mysius2021-2030DramaFantasyFranceSynopsis:
Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky’s aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.Read More » -
Andrzej Wajda – Bez znieczulenia AKA Rough Treatment (1978)
1971-1980Andrzej WajdaDramaPolandQuote:
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being “unwanted” parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.Read More » -
Jean-Louis Bertuccelli – Paulina 1880 (1972)
Drama1971-1980FranceJean-Louis BertuccelliRomanceIn 1880’s Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move.Read More »
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Teona Strugar Mitevska – The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears (2012)
Drama2011-2020ArthouseMacedoniaTeona Strugar MitevskaPlot: Two different mothers in two different worlds. The first one from comes from the western world, lives in France and after a tragic lost of her child is trying to continue living and find purpose of it. The other is coming from completely different world, very traditional, patriarchal society, where things change very slowly and where the women are married as exchange for money. The first one wants to die, the other wants to live. Their parallel paths converge when the one from the western society comes in the world of the other in the east. This intrusion turns, unintentionally and unconsciously into a very violent one.Read More »
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Clyde Ware – The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
USA1971-1980Clyde WareCrimeDramaA humanistic account of “the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills”, in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.Read More »
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Joyû Sumako no koi AKA The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947)
Kenji Mizoguchi1941-1950DramaJapanQuote:
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.Read More » -
Raj Kapoor – Awaara AKA The Vagabond (1951) (HD)
1951-1960DramaIndiaRaj KapoorRomanceRaju lives as a derelict as a result of being estranged from his bitter father, a district judge, who threw Raju’s mother out of the house years ago. Raju shacks up with a Dacoit (pickpocket bandit) as his surrogate father only to realize that the man is actually responsible for the original misunderstanding between his parents. Raju kills him, and then tries killing his father, but fails, is arrested, and is taken to court right before his very own father, who presides there as the Judge. Raju has his childhood girlfriend as his legal representative, and the onus is now on his father, who must pass judgment without showing any personal sentiment. Written by rAjOoRead More »
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Zoltán Várkonyi – A köszívü ember fiai AKA The Heartless Man’s Sons (1965)
Zoltán Várkonyi1961-1970DramaHungaryWarDuring the Hungarian war of independence 1848-49 the widow of Kazmer Baradlay – who himself was a supporter of the Austrian Emperor resists the last wish of her late husband wishing his sons to become faithful Hungarians. She asks her eldest Odon to return from St. Petersburg and the others – Richard and Jeno from Vienna. The revolution of 1848 begins. Supported by their mother the sons join the revolutionary cause despite their father’s will.Read More »