THE GAME-BAG (IL CANIERE)

DescriptionDescription Three friends on their way from Italy to one of the most beautiful game reserves on the Balkan peninsula expect their annual rendezvous with the chief huntsman. But this time something has gone awry - the huntsman is nowhere to be found. The only person there is his young beautiful daughter who reluctantly leads...

KEEP COOL (YOU HUA HAO HAO SHUO)

DescriptionDescription This controversial entry was selected for the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and then pulled from competition by the Chinese government. In a marked departure in both style and substance, Zhang (RAISE THE RED LANTERN, STORY OF QIU JU) has created a modern comedy set in contemporary Beijing. A bookseller pines with...

FRANCES

DescriptionDescription The bio pic of 30's controversial movie star Frances Farmer.

KAOS ON WARWICK

DescriptionDescription A haunting tale about one boy's search for identity and acceptance in a racially divided society.

FIRST DAUGHTER

DescriptionDescription An eight year old girl, mourning her father's death, discovers a world of fantasy and her unknown culture when she visits Vietnam.

FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (O QUE É ISSO, COMPANHEIRO?)

DescriptionDescription Best known for DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, Barreto enters the complex world of politics, based on the true story of the 1969 kidnapping of the American ambassador to Brazil (Alan Arkin). A group of young and naive idealists join together to carry out an act of terrorism, their only means of giving...

THE JUNKY’S CHRISTMAS

DescriptionDescription brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes taking years to complete, these articulated visions in clay offer a sensory experience for...

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

DescriptionDescription This is a first rote horror film and the first of Carmon's Poe adaptations. When a suitor arrives at the Usher house to claim his beautiful fiancee, Price as her older brother in one of his best performances comes between them because of a deadly family curse. Truly magnificent in its dark unravelling of...

FIRE IN PARADISE (LES RAISONS DU COEUR)

DescriptionDescription On her honeymoon cruise, Juliette realizes that her new husband has married her for her money. Dismayed and angry, she meets a poor bride-to-be on board the ship. This young woman is traveling to India to man-y a missionary she has never met. Juliette feels that her salvation lies in taking on the young...

JOURNEY ON THE HOUR HAND (AKREBIN YOLCULUGU)

DescriptionDescription A double winner for best film and best direction in the Istanbul fest's national competition, this existential mystery tale about a clock mender who arrives in a village where time has stopped has a jewel-like perfection ... When a stranger hands the clockmender a key to a mysterious clock tower, he heads off to...

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