Oleg Teptsov – Gospodin oformitel AKA Mister Designer (1987)
In this surreal take on Pygmalion set in 1900s St. Petersburg, Russia, a time known in art as Russian Decadence, a famous artist and decorator, Platon Andreevich, strives to find the secret to eternal...
View ArticleJoe D’Amato – Ator l’invincibile AKA Ator the Fighting Eagle (1982)
The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult. Ator battles giant spiders,...
View ArticleJanis Rafailidou – Kala azar (2020)
SynopsisKala azar describes of a place that cannot sustain animal life any longer. In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act...
View ArticleParviz Kimiavi – Iran saray-e man ast AKA Iran Is My Land (1999)
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events. 554MB | 1h 23m...
View ArticleYoshiyuki Kuroda & Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Tôkaidô obake dôchû AKA Yokai Monsters:...
The murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai. 1.78GB | 1h 18m | 1024×436 | mkv...
View ArticleYoshiyuki Kuroda – Yôkai daisensô AKA Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare AKA The...
Spook Warfare, tells the tale of an evil Babylonian vampire inadvertently awoken by treasure hunters, and a brave samurai that teams with the yokai to defeat the bloodthirsty demon. 1.80GB | 1h 18m |...
View ArticleStefan Uher – Javor a Juliana AKA Maple and Juliana (1973)
Based on old slovak ballads, it tells of fiddlers who with their magic violins spread evil and destruction all over the world. From Skritek’s film journal:A girl is transformed into a maple tree by...
View ArticleMan Kei Chin – Yu pu tuan er zhi Yu nu xin jing AKA Sex and Zen II (1996)
Sai Moon-Kin (Tsui) is a rich man who lives with his concubines and his son and a daughter named Yiau (Loletta Lee), who is raised like a boy and is ignorant of the ways of love. Because her brother...
View ArticleClaude Autant-Lara – Sylvie et le fantôme AKA Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)
Synopsis:Claude Autant-Lara’s literally haunting romantic tale Sylvia and the Phantom stars Odette Joyeaux as Sylvia, an imaginative young girl who lives in an old French castle. Fascinated by a...
View ArticleFruit Chan – Sam foo AKA Three Husbands (2018)
Quote:A wondrous prostitute plies her trade while living on a boat in Hong Kong. With a superhuman libido and three loving husbands, she doggedly devotes herself to her work. Using sex to satirize the...
View ArticleShira Geffen & Etgar Keret – L’agent immobilier (2019)
Olivier is a real estate agent so broke he camps out in the apartments he is supposed to be selling. The death of his mother brings along many surprises, including a very unexpected inheritance: a...
View ArticleJulien Duvivier – Marianne de ma jeunesse AKA Marianne of My Youth (1955)
In a Bavarian forest, the pupils of a boarding school are about to have their lives changed by the arrival of Vincent, a young man who can charm wild animals with his guitar. One day Vincent ventures...
View ArticleRené Clair – La beauté du diable AKA Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Synopsis:Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature…whereupon his old acquaintance...
View ArticleJacques Rivette – Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris...
Whiling away a summer in Paris, director Jacques Rivette, working in close collaboration with his stars and coconspirators Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, set out to rewrite the rules of cinema...
View ArticleTony Au – Mung chung yan AKA Dream Lovers (1986)
Without having met, a famous orchestra conductor and a beautiful woman seem destined to be together. They see one another’s faces in their dreams, reflected in mirrors, and in crowded streets before...
View ArticleStuart Paton – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Stuart Paton’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) is an epic retelling of Jules Verne’s classic novel, shot on location in the Bahaman Islands. Allen Holubar stars as the domineering Captain Nemo,...
View ArticleHark Tsui – Hua yue jia qi aka Love in the time of twilight (1995)
The plot is hard to summarize because there’s so much going on and it happens so fast. A young man who works in a bank and a young woman who works at the Peking Opera in a bustling Chinese town at the...
View ArticleMarcel Carné – La Merveilleuse Visite AKA The Marvelous Visit (1974)
SynopsisJean stars as an angel who has fallen from heaven and landed in a picturesque French village.Nursed back to health by the local priest and his helper, he returns the favor in a surprising...
View ArticleMario Bava & Henry Levin – Le meraviglie di Aladino (1961)
Young man found in Baghdad in a lamp with a Genie Pony which help the Prince to defeat evil and the good Sposaro Grand Vizier of the Sultan’s daughter. Modest variations in the history of the Arabian...
View ArticleMarcel Carné – Le pays, d’où je viens AKA The country I come from (1956)
SynopsisOne Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty...
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