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A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don’t know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.Read More »
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Dominik Moll – Seules les bêtes AKA Only the Animals (2019)
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John Milius – Dillinger (1973)
USA1971-1980ActionCrimeJohn MiliusSynopsis
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger’s bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.Read More » -
Terry Bishop – Cover Girl Killer (1959)
1951-1960CrimeDramaTerry BishopUnited KingdomA bikini-clad pin-up is found dead by the Serpentine in the same place, pose and get-up
as when she appeared on the cover of “Wow!” magazine. When the police find the same
fate befalling other girls featured on the front page they realise a highly intelligent
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Orson Welles – Vérités et mensonges aka F for Fake (1973)
1971-1980ArthouseDocumentaryFranceOrson WellesQuote:
Orson Welles’ free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr’s biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles’ own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience.Read More » -
Brillante Mendoza – Kinatay AKA The Execution of P (2009)
2001-2010Brillante MendozaCrimeDramaPhilippinesPeping, a criminology student, is recruited by his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila. The easy money Peping earns is spent mostly on his girlfriend, Cecille, who’s also a student. Peping decides to marry her, but in order to do so he’ll need more money. Abyong contacts Peping to join a “special project” that pays more than normal…Read More »
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John Ford – Gideon’s Day AKA Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958)
Drama1951-1960CrimeJohn FordUnited KingdomSynopsis:
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Jan Troell – Här har du ditt liv AKA Here’s Your Life (1966)
1961-1970DramaJan TroellSwedenQuote:
The coming of age of Olof Persson is presented. This phase of his story begins in northern Sweden in 1914 when he is fourteen years old. He is just leaving the home of his foster parents, where he was first sent because of his own father’s illness. Olof is now striking out on his own moving from one manual labor job to another. He is often put through rites of passage because of his age, or is exposed to adult issues solely because he is seen as just another one of the men. It isn’t until he moves to the city at age sixteen and gets a job in the movie showing business – first at a cinema and then a traveling movie show – that he begins to deal with more adult issues and emotions of his own, such as acting on his desire for the opposite sex, the associated feeling of jealousy, and how he may want to direct his energies as an adult in his passions for philosophy and political activism of the socialist variety.Read More » -
Shôgorô Nishimura – Kôkô kyôshi: Seijuku AKA High School Teacher: Maturing (1985)
1981-1990DramaExploitationJapanShogoro NishimuraA female highschool teacher (Rei Akasaka) must deal with sexual harrassment from her students and being trapped in a love triangle with two men, neither of whom has any interest in marrying her.Read More »
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – La última cena AKA The Last Supper (1976)
1971-1980CubaDramaPoliticsTomás Gutiérrez AleaThis scathing black comedy from Cuban satirist Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is a dish that’s bitter to taste and hard to stomach. It’s an intricate and uncompromising fable that alarmingly boasts an authentic historical model.
In the 18th century, the wealthy owner of a sprawling Havana sugar plantation gives in to a misguided whim. As Holy Week approaches, he decides to host his own Last Supper, appointing himself as Christ and a dozen downtrodden slaves as the apostles. Held on Maundy Thursday, his re-enactment is a precarious proposition from the outset. At first, it offers Alea ample opportunity for comedy, as the pompous master cleans and flinchingly kisses the feet of the bemused slaves before taking to the table.Read More »