This 1998 documentary was the first feature by documentary filmmaker Sérgio Tréfaut, later to direct Fleurette, Lisboetas and Viagem a Portugal, and is a look at the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 and its follow-up period as seen by some the filmmakers and photographer that accompanied it in real time.

The film brings together period footage from many different sources and new interviews. Glauber Rocha, Robert Kramer, Thomas Harlan or Sebastião Salgado are some of those interviewed or that have contributed footage to the project.Read More »

Bolshevik Tsolak Darbinyan is infiltrated into Dashnak Army as a musician of Army music band. Despite the initial personal conflict with band leader Arsen, he is able to win the friendship of young band musicians including Arsen and to persuade them to back him on the eve of the Bolshevik invasion to Armenia.Read More »

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A handful of people are dissatisfied with their actually good life: while Ludwig (Rudolf Nadler) would like to go on vacation, his girlfriend Anna (Anne Knaak) only has eyes for Stefan (Matthias Tiefenbach) and sinks into work. Toni and Cyrill (Dina Leipzig and Cyrille Rey-Coquais) almost only argue with each other and the actor Max (Christoph Krix) wishes for more glorious times.Read More »

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The story of a northern Chinese peasant wife in the 1920s whose personal life is played out against a background of sweeping political change.Read More »

A horror movie about the things that happen when the spirit of a murder victim appears.Read More »

A semi-autobiographical account of Lars Von Trier’s early life that follows the misadventures of a young, rebellious student who has aspirations of becoming a film director…Read More »

An accomplished and “enchanting” fantasy-romance, this story of a couple’s love for each other and a pixie’s benevolent intervention in their lives is entertaining from beginning to end. Cesar (Francisco Rabal) is a fake sorcerer and travels with his wife Pilar (Concha Velasco) in a combination bus and house, performing magic shows for the public. One time when they are stuck in a ditch in the middle of nowhere, a young woman named Saga (Victoria Abril) helps them get out and back on the road again. It soon becomes clear by her actions that Saga is a friendly pixie-witch. She and her warlock cohort cause Cesar’s fake magic to really work — and that is just the beginning. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie GuideRead More »

Professor Larsen, the director of the International Center for Astro Monitoring is listening to radio transmissions from deep space when he receives a disturbing string of code, that to him heralds the coming of alien invaders. When thousands of people suddenly disappear from the red-light district known as Sepulveda, his worst fears are confirmed. To prove that aliens are behind the mayhem, he is sent there to investigate. Larsen is assisted by his lab helper Oscar, his bodyguard Stavro and by Eva, the beautiful daughter of a politically powerful hermaphrodite named Purpur. Their investigation leads them into a bizarre and seamy futuristic world of eroticism, political intrigue and danger.Read More »

Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together.Read More »