Quote:
Complicated entanglements occur in a border village when an exiled Iranian teacher finds himself helping a refugee Afghan family fleeing the Taliban.Read More »
Thriller
-
Abbas Amini – Marzhaye bi payan AKA Endless Borders (2023) (HD)
2021-2030Abbas AminiDramaIranThriller -
Franklin J. Schaffner – The Boys from Brazil (1978)
1971-1980Franklin J. SchaffnerSci-FiThrillerUnited KingdomBarry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler’s findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eageRead More »
-
Pedro Olea – No es bueno que el hombre esté solo AKA It’s No Good for a Man to Be Alone (1973)
Pedro Olea1971-1980DramaSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoThrillerMartin (played by José Luis López Vázquez, a legend of Spanish film and theatre) is a middle-aged engineer employed by a big shipbuilding firm in the northern city of Bilbao. Quiet, diligent in his work and reserved, Martin is a model of respectability. His secretary, Monica (played by Helga Line) often asks about his wife, whom no-one has ever met and who seems to be an invalid.
Every evening after work, Martin returns to his big, gloomy house that looks out over the bay and towards the north Atlantic Ocean.Read More »
-
Amat Escalante – Perdidos en la noche AKA Lost in the Night (2023)
Amat Escalante2021-2030DramaMexicoThrillerEmiliano lives in a small mining town in Mexico. Driven by a deep sense of justice, he seeks those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother.Read More »
-
Jan Batory – Spotkanie ze szpiegiem AKA Rendezvous with a Spy (1964)
1961-1970CrimeJan BatoryPolandThrillerQuote:
On the Koszalin coast, secret agent Bernard is about to land information on the deployment of Polish missile bases.Read More » -
C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi – Mami Wata (2023)
2021-2030C.J. 'Fiery' ObasiDramaNigeriaThrillerPlot: When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.Read More »
-
Don Siegel – The Beguiled (1971)
Don Siegel1971-1980DramaThrillerUSAWhile imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.Read More »
-
Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme (2023)
Sam H. Freeman2021-2030Ng Choon PingQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUnited KingdomFollows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.Read More »
-
Temur Babluani – Udzinarta mze AKA The Sun of the Sleepless (1992)
1991-2000DramaGeorgiaTemur BabluaniThrillerThe director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.Read More »