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Movie: Cat People
Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a Serbian-born NYC fashion designer, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). Oliver becomes concerned about Irena's notion that she is cursed and may transform into a large cat in the heat of passion. [more inside]
Movie: Evil Does Not Exist
[TRAILER] In the rural alpine hamlet of Mizubiki, Takumi and his daughter, Hana, lead a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for the local udon restaurant. Increasingly, the townsfolk become aware of a plan to build an opulent glamping site nearby. When two company representatives arrive and ask for local guidance, Takumi becomes conflicted in his involvement, as it becomes clear that the project will have a pernicious impact on the community. [more inside]
Movie: Kes
[TRAILER] Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, for a time. [more inside]
Movie: Diamonds of the Night
[TRAILER] Two Jewish boys (Ladislav Jánský, Antonín Kumbera) escape from a Nazi death-camp convoy and go wild and hungry. [more inside]
Movie: Goodbye, Dragon Inn
[TRAILER] On a dark, wet night, a movie palace in Taipei is closing, but not before one final film is shown -- Dragon Inn a 1967 actioner and a source of nostalgia for the moviegoers and employees in the old, decrepit and possibly haunted building. As the film plays, the lives of the theater’s various employees and patrons intersect, and two aging actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era. A critically acclaimed slow cinema comedy/drama from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. [more inside]
Movie: Santa Sangre
[Trailer] A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms". -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: A Taxi Driver
[Trailer] A widowed father and taxi driver drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, and soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him. [more inside]
Movie: Tank
[TRAILER] After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey (James Garner) butts heads with the local sheriff (GD Spradlin). Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son (C. Thomas Howell), it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own. [more inside]
Movie: Practical Magic
(Trailer) Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love. [more inside]
Family: All Seasons Season 1, Ep 1
American TV drama running from 1976-1980 showcasing the Lawrence family, an upper middle class household in Pasadena, CA. Starring Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, with Meredith Baxter Birney, Gary Frank and Kristy McNichol as their children, Nancy, Willie, and Buddy (aka Letitia, Tizzylish) [more inside]
Movie: The Wasp
[TRAILER] Heather (Naomie Harris) bumps into Carla (Natalie Dormer), having not spoken to her in years, and presents her with a very unexpected proposition that could change both of their lives forever. [more inside]
Movie: El hoyo en la cerca / The Hole in the Fence
[Trailer] As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself. -- Trakt [more inside]
Movie: Green Border
[TRAILER] In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped, constantly forced from one side of the border to the other. Thirty years after her film Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland's Green Border challenges viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. [more inside]
Movie: Grave Torture
[TRAILER] When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death--a fixation that leads her on a dark quest. [more inside]
Movie: In Fabric
[TRAILER] Following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences, this Peter Strickland film is, at turns, chilling, surreal, hilarious, and inscrutable. [more inside]
Movie: Tender Mercies
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. [more inside]
The Deuce: Full 3rd Seaason Season 3, Ep 0
AIDS, beepers, and VHS radically change the landscape of the Deuce.
The Deuce: Full 2nd season Season 2, Ep 0
Various characters confront the changing realities of prostitution, porn, and life in nyc.
Movie: Beast (2018)
[Trailer] A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders. - IMDb [more inside]
Movie: The Count of Monte-Cristo
Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d'If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
Movie: The King Tide
[TRAILER] In a small island fishing village, isolated from the mainland, a child turns up who has special, mystical powers, leading social order in the town to the brink of civil war as the residents disagree about whether the child was sent for a larger spiritual purpose. [more inside]
Movie: Nanny
[Trailer] Piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, immigrant nanny Aisha is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream. -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Twins of Evil
[TRAILER] 19th century witch hunter Gustav (Peter Cushing) leads a band of puritans through the region, burning young women suspected of witchcraft. When his identical twin nieces (Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson) come to visit from Venice, one of the twins takes an interest in Count Karnstein (Daniel Thomas), a local lord dabbling in Satanism... and worse. Hammer's third (and final) film in the Karnstein Trilogy, a series of lightly sexy vampire stories with lesbian themes. [more inside]
Movie: Lust for a Vampire
[TRAILER] A temptress (Yutte Stensgaard) does Count Karnstein's (Mike Raven) biting at a finishing school in 19th-century Styria. The second in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, which uses the novel Carmilla as a launching point for three films about sexy lesbian vampires. [more inside]
Movie: The Vampire Lovers
[TRAILER] The general (Peter Cushing) and a baron hunt a vampire named Carmilla (Ingrid Pitt) who seduces and bites their daughters. The first in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, based on/inspired by Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. [more inside]
Movie: Ghostlight
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Movie: The Room
[Trailer] Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they long for the most is a child. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Prevenge
Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. --IMDb
Movie: Red Skies of Montana
Drama dealing with the hazardous work of the U. S. Forest Service's paratroop fire-fighters in Montana.
Movie: Society of the Snow
[TRAILER] On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) adapts the true story into a Netflix original film. [more inside]
Movie: Big Boys (2023)
[Trailer] A shy 14-year-old boy's camping trip is complicated when his cousin brings her boyfriend along. [more inside]
Movie: The Masque of the Red Death
[Trailer] A sadistic devil-worshipping prince intends to wait out a plague in his castle with his friends. [more inside]
Movie: Night on Earth
[TRAILER] Jim Jarmusch's film presents five stories, each involving a cab ride and set in a different city around the world. In Los Angeles, no-nonsense taxi driver Corky (Winona Ryder) gets an engaging customer in the form of a Hollywood casting agent (Gena Rowlands). In New York, streetwise YoYo (Giancarlo Esposito) finds his cabbie Helmut (Armin Mueller-Stahl) knows precious little about how to actually drive. In Paris, a cabbie (Isaach de Bankolé) spars with a blind customer (Béatrice Dalle). In Rome, quirky driver Gino (Roberto Benigni) makes a lively confession to an ailing priest (Paolo Bonacelli). And finally, in Helsinki, somber Mika (Matti Pellonpää) picks up three men headed home after a night of drinking their troubles away. [more inside]
Movie: The Piano
[TRAILER] After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) and her young daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart (Sam Neill). Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines (Harvey Keitel), leading to tense, life-altering conflicts [more inside]
Movie: Sing Sing
Inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility find purpose and community through acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art. Based on a true story. Most actors are formerly incarcerated men who participated in Rehabilitation Through the Arts. Also stars Colman Domingo. AP News: "'Sing Sing' screens at Sing Sing, in an emotional homecoming for its cast". NY Times Critic's Pick review by Lisa Kennedy. [more inside]
Movie: The Stepford Wives
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. -- IMDb
Movie: Possum
[TRAILER] A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
[TRAILER] Charismatic gambler John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives in a mining community and decides to open a brothel. The local residents are impressed by his confident demeanor and fast talk, but crafty prostitute Constance Miller (Julie Christie) sees through McCabe's words and realizes he isn't as sharp as he seems. [more inside]
Movie: EO
[TRAILER] The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life's path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence. [more inside]
Movie: The Old Oak
[TRAILER] TJ (Dave Turner) runs the last pub standing in a previously thriving mining community. He struggles to keep the place afloat while also trying to offer some help to Syrian refugees who have been placed in the empty houses in the community. Tensions arise as down-on-their-luck locals are resentful of the newcomers, but TJ strikes up a friendship with one of the refugees, Yara (Ebla Mari). 87 year-old British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach brings (probably) his final film to screens. [more inside]
Movie: Raining Stones
[TRAILER] Bob (Bruce Jones) is a religious but poor man intent on earning enough cash to buy a new communion dress for his daughter. With his loyal sidekick, Tom (Ricky Tomlinson), Bob takes odd and sometimes ill-advised jobs in search of quick cash. But Bob's bad luck follows him everywhere in this working-class town. When his van gets stolen, Bob makes a disastrous choice that may cost him everything. [more inside]
Movie: Closer
Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other. [more inside]
Movie: Blue Collar
[TRAILER] When Detroit autoworkers Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto) decide to rob their own union, they are initially disappointed by the relatively small haul. However, upon closer inspection, the three amateur thieves discover that they have made off with something potentially much more valuable than money: the union's ledger, filled with bogus figures and links to organized crime. Should they blackmail the union or go to the authorities? [more inside]
Movie: Lumberjack the Monster
[TRAILER] After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a “monster mask,” he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge. The lastest film from prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins). [more inside]
Movie: Mommie Dearest
[TRAILER] Renowned actress Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway), at the height of her career, adopts two orphans--Christina and Christopher--to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies. [more inside]
Movie: Evolution
[TRAILER] Three bravura single take vignettes trace three generations of a family--from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin--who struggle to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. Husband and wife team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (Pieces of a Woman) adapt their 2018 stage play. [more inside]
Movie: Damnation
[TRAILER] Karrer (Miklós Székely B.) plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer (Vali Kerekes). But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away... Damnation (Hungarian: Kárhozat) is a 1988 black-and-white Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr. [more inside]
Movie: Beyond the Hills
[TRAILER] Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichița back with her. The two girls were previously roommates at an orphanage and had shared a physical relationship. But Voichița has joined a convent, and her religious devotion may not be so easily unraveled. [more inside]
Movie: Merry-Go-Round
[TRAILER] Young farm girl Mari is forbidden by her father from seeing Máté, the young man she loves. Her father, sick of being told what to do, wishes to leave the collective, and sees giving his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man as his way out. But Máté is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Mari's love, and Mari herself doesn't like being told what to do any more than her father does. [more inside]
Movie: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
[TRAILER] Overworked and underpaid production assistant Angela (Ilinca Manolache) is assigned to film a workplace safety video for a multinational corporation in Bucharest. When one of the interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal, Angela has to re-invent the story. Golden Bear award winner Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century. [more inside]