IMDB says:
Raffael is the rich owner of a video store. His girlfriend, the attractive Chip works there. They make some extra by making illegal copies of pornographic and horror movies. It is Rambo’s duty to deliver the video cassettes to the customers. Raffael doesn’t know Chip and Rambo are lovers.Read More »
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István Dárday & Györgyi Szalai – A dokumentátor (1988)
1981-1990DramaGyörgyi SzalaiHungaryIstván Dárday -
Jia Zhangke – Ying sheng AKA The Hedonists (2016)
2011-2020ChinaDramaShort FilmZhangke JiaQuote:
In China, three unemployed Shanxi laborers are looking for work. Their last hope is to be employed as performers in a surreal amusement park.Tony Rayns wrote:
A showstopper, a funny/sad tale of three unemployed miners – their faces will be familiar to fans of Jia’s films – trying for ridiculous new jobs as bodyguards and theme-park actors.Read More » -
Montgomery Tully – Terror Street aka 36 Hours [+Extras] (1953)
1951-1960CrimeFilm NoirHammer FilmsMontgomery TullyUnited KingdomQuote:
“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 climax.”
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Budd Boetticher – Decision at Sundown [+Extras] (1957)
1951-1960Budd BoetticherUSAWesternSynopsis
A gunman seeks revenge on the man he believes stole his wife.Read More » -
William A. Wellman – Westward the Women (1951)
Drama1951-1960USAWesternWilliam A. WellmanPlot:
In a time when “The West” pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there’s a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman’s farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates he selects 138 who seem able to survive a months long journey across “The Great American Desert” and the Rocky Mountains.Read More » -
Ali Abbasi – Gräns AKA Border (2018)
2011-2020Ali AbbasiDramaFantasySwedenA customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.Read More »
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Julian Hobbs – Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (2006)
USA2001-2010ArthouseExperimentalJulian HobbsSummary/Reviews (from Amazon.com):
Daniel Paul Schreber began Memoirs of my Nervous Illness in February 1900 while confined in an asylum, as part of
an appeal for release. Schreber, second son (the first committed suicide) of an abusive father, was at the peak of
a brilliant career in Leipzig when he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Saxon High Court of Appeals. Alas, the
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Edgardo Cozarinsky – Guerriers et captives AKA Guerreros y cautivas (1990)
Drama1981-1990Edgardo CozarinskyEuro WesternsFranceWesternIn 1880, a colonel and his French wife live in a fort in the Patagonian desert. The colonel takes an Amerindian as captive, with the intent to civilize her. A “southern” movie (in opposition to “western”, as it was shot in the deep Argentinean south
Quote:
Dos caras de una misma moneda. Uno viene de lo salvaje hacia la civilización; la otra, desde la civilización hacia la barbarie. Se realiza un cambio de identidad. El guerrero queda impresionado con la civilización romana, y siente que pertenece a aquella. La abuela de Borges quiere rescatar a la india, pero ella la rechaza. Se espanta, no puede creerlo; pero cuando su marido muere, ella se siente identificada. Cuando la india toma la sangre caliente del caballo que acababa de degollar, es cuando termina de demostrar que nunca dejará de ser india, más allá de su lugar de nacimiento.Read More » -
François Bouvier – Paul à Québec (2015)
Drama2011-2020CanadaComedyFrançois BouvierQuote:
Paul is a cartoonist who lives with his girlfriend and their little daughter in Montreal in the summer of 1999. His in-laws, the Beaulieus, are a large, joyful clan composed of siblings, grandchildren and a much loved patriarch named Roland who constantly reminds Paul that he has yet to marry his daughter. When Roland fades with ill health, the family bands together and Paul projects his own devotion by doodling several portraits of his ailing father-in-law.Read More »