THE MOOR’S HEAD (DER KOPF DES MOHREN)

DescriptionDescription Georg, a physicist at a testing laboratory, finds himself face to face with the horrific image of one of the victims of a fatal toxic gas leak in a nearby chemical plant. He becomes obsessed with protecting his family from the certain upcoming environmental apocalypse. Sinking deeper into paranoia, fueled by the ubiquitous TV...

THE NEON BIBLE

DescriptionDescription A moving story of a young boy growing up in a small 1940s Bible Belt town in America's Deep South. The film boasts a strong cast, including the extraordinary Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae, who brings a dash of glamour and excitement to the small town; cult comedian Denis Leary as the boy's father;...

CRIMINAL

DescriptionDescription A poetically haunting story about the loss of innocence and imagination in an indifferen'f world. Based on the true story of Simon Willerton, who hanged himself in jail in 1990 at the age of seventeen, this is a bittersweet, compelling and poignantly humorous piece of fiction which draws you into the world of a...

MEDEA

DescriptionDescription Created for Danish television in 1988, Medea is an updated version of the classic Greek drama about the jealousy and deep sorrow of an abandoned wife and mother and the hatred that ensues. Lars von Trier (Elements of Crime, Zentropa) uses the silvery-grey North Sea marshes and a less defined Nordic past as a...

MEMOIRS OF A FRUSTRATED HEDONIST

DescriptionDescription Director Claas Danielson takes us on the inner and outer journey of a 78 year old art historian, to the realm of beauty and horror. Born into an impoverished Russian noble family in 1915, she found herself in flight in an age of revolution, Stalinist persecution, hunger and war, and found that the power...

MICCONCEPTION

DescriptionDescription An ironic mother and daughter tale of lost dreams and sexual desires. Mary Roberts struggles with her mother and her conscience when confronted with life changing choices. Will the young cellist abandon her moral principles in pursuit of cherished dreams?

MIRACLE ALLEY (ELL CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS)

DescriptionDescription We are proud to open the TRIBUTE CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN CINEMA with the film most honored this year by the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Adapted from a book by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the film's three stories take place in downtown Mexico City's Miracle Alley. The first story is that...

MISSION TO MOSCOW

DescriptionDescription M ission To Moscow tries to explain Soviet Russia to American audiences. Real-life U.S. Ambassador Davies (Walter Huston) talks up the lovable side of misunderstood mass murderer Joseph Stalin, while Mrs. Davies discovers Moscow's marvelous day care facilities.

COUNTDOWN (VISSZASZAMLALAS)

DescriptionDescription A somber, finely crafted film about the pitfalls of the system of private enterprise now taking hold in Hungary, Countdown is a very pessimistic film but an emotionally involving one ... a truck driver who decides to go into business for himself puts all his savings into a truck he buys at an auction....

MAMMO

DescriptionDescription Director Shyam Benegal, whose roots are in documentary filmmaking, has created a sensitive portrait of Mammo, an Indian woman who must use all her resources to survive after the death of her Pakistani husband. When her in-laws oust her from her own house, she obtains a visitor's visa for Bombay to live with a...

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