Jacqueline Audry – Olivia AKA The Pit of Loneliness (1951)
Quote:Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her...
View ArticleJacques Baratier – La poupée AKA The Doll (1962)
Quote:While there is an element of science fiction to this political satire about Latin American dictatorships, that element is primarily used to promote the storyline and the message, and not as a...
View ArticleGabriele Muccino – L’estate addosso AKA Summertime (2016)
Quote:Gabriele Muccino is an Italian filmmaker (“The Last Kiss,” “Ecco Fatto”) who had a high-profile moment of going Hollywood. He was handed the plum of directing two Will Smith vehicles in a row,...
View ArticleFrédéric Mermoud – Complices AKA Accomplices (2009)
Quote:Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends Karine...
View ArticleKenneth Anger – Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
Quote:Experimental short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger. 343MB | 10min 58s | 790×576...
View ArticleKenneth Anger – Scorpio Rising (1963)
Quote:Scorpio Rising is a 1964 experimental film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, starring Bruce Byron as the biker Scorpio. It features themes of leather-clad bikers, the...
View ArticleIsshin Inudô – Mezon do Himiko AKA La maison de Himiko (2005)
Quote:Saori has always disliked her gay father and has lived her life denying his existence. One rainy day she receives a visit at work from a young man called Haruhiko. He tells her that her father...
View ArticleAlain Guiraudie – L’inconnu du lac (2013)
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel. An attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out...
View ArticleJosé Luis Torres Leiva – Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos AKA Death Will...
Quote:Two women who have shared a lifetime together are faced with the disease of one of them. The sick woman decides not to follow any treatment and they both move to a small house in the forest...
View ArticlePier Paolo Pasolini – Comizi d’amore AKA Love Meetings (1964)
Quote:Pasolini doesn’t so much ‘meet’ with people of all regions of his country as interrogate them, trying to investigate the sexual mores of his time in a typical melding of politics and sex, of...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim – Die Bettwurst (1971)
Praunheim’s first big feature film was produced in 1970: „Die Bettwurst“ became a cult movie.—The touching story of Dietmar and Luzy, two not so young lovers in the drastic world of Rosa von...
View ArticleKenneth Anger – Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
Quote:A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the...
View ArticleValerio Zurlini – Cronaca familiare AKA Family Diary (1962)
A touching story of brothers raised apart and then brought together under tragic circumstances, this drama by Valerio Zurlini remains true to Vasco Pratolini’s novel. Told in a series of flashbacks as...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim – Stadt der verlorenen Seelen (1983)
Quote:With stars like Angie Stardust (also music credits), Judith Flex, and Joaquin La Habana, director Rosa von Praunheim has fashioned a film about the teeming flip side of life in Berlin centered...
View ArticleRoland Klick – Supermarkt (1974)
18-year old Willi is living on the street – there are no goals in his life. There, he meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he finally meets Monica, he realizes that there are...
View ArticlePaul Schrader – Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) (HD)
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels while the fourth depicts the...
View ArticleKen Russell – The Music Lovers (1971)
“Vulgar, excessive, melodramatic and self-indulgent: Tchaikovsky’s music is indeed all of these things, yet gloriously so, and the same goes for Ken Russell at his freewheeling best. The director’s...
View ArticleRene Daalder – Population: 1 (1986)
Quote:Like fellow Dutchmen Paul Verhoeven and Jan De Bont, Rene Daalder was drafted by Hollywood to make genre films, though his inclinations ran a little artier. Daalder achieved some cult success...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim – Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen AKA Army...
Quote:Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (German: Armee der Liebenden oder Aufstand der Perversen) is a 1979 German documentary film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The film, mainly shot in San...
View ArticleMartin Walz – Kondom des Grauens AKA Killer Condom (1996)
Quote:A witty and inventive gross-out comedy suggesting a synthesis of John Waters and Terry Gilliam, Martin Walz’s German film adapts Ralf Konig’s graphic comic about killer contraceptives unleashed...
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