The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)Sunday, June 20th, 2010 |
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In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musant) witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him. |
Lenin: The Train (1988)Monday, June 14th, 2010 |
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March/April 1917. the first world war is already a couple year old. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zurich through Germany and Sweden to Saint-Petersburg. The bolsheviks on the train are lead by Vladimir J. Lenin (Kingsley). There are some unpleasant collisions taking place between enthusiastic Socialists and workers concerned about the war. During the train travel time Lenin’s affair with the gracious Inessa comes to an end, and his Nadja is prepared to take him back. The triumphant arrival in Saint-Petersburg exceeds all expectations. |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)Friday, June 11th, 2010 |
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This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain. |
Sweet Movie (1974)Friday, February 12th, 2010 |
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In the contest of the “most virgin” Miss Monde 1984, Miss Canada (Carole Laure) wins, and prize is the marriage with the milk industry tycoon (John Vernon) with his 50 billion dollars fortune. In their honeymoon, Miss Canada “does not accept” the golden penis of her husband, and with the support of the black man Jeremiah Muscle (Roy Callender), she runaways to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey), they have an intercourse in Eiffel Tour and they get stuck together. She moves to a weird anarchic community and later she becomes an actress working in a chocolate advertisement. Meanwhile, the revolutionary, pedophile, and mad killer Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) makes candy in her boat while sailing through the canals of a city that seems to be Amsterdam. She meets the sailor Potemkin (Pierre Clémenti) and they have a torrid affair. Meanwhile she uses her candies to seduce young boys and kill her lovers. In the middle of the story, it is presented what seem to be footages of a Nazi doctor and a slaughter in a war with many dead bodies. |
Wet Asphalt (1958)Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 |
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When a made-up story crafted to meet a rapidly approaching deadline spirals out of control, a young reporter takes it upon himself to warn the public and his journalistic peers of the dangers of sensationalism in this long-lost film noir directed by Frank Wisbar and starring Horst Buchholz. Aspiring journalist Greg Bachmann (Buchholz) has just been released from prison and is looking for some honest work. Soon hired as assistant to influential yellow journalist Cesar Boyd (Martin Held), Bachmann is shocked to discover that his new employer has concocted the story of a blind Nazi soldier discovered in a bunker years after the end of World War II in order to meet a looming deadline. When other reporters latch on to the story and run a phony picture of the long-lost soldier, a peaceful protest aimed at pressuring authorities to release the man quickly elevate into a full-scale riot. Now, with all of Europe in chaos, Bachmann must race to expose the fraudulent scoop and spread the word about the dangers of tabloid reporting. |
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
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16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D’Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it’s all a bad dream. She writes a letter to God, and a Knight rescues her, only to fall into the hands of the Inquisition, put on the rack, and condemned to death like Joan of Arc. |
The Last Unicorn (1982)Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 |
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A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world’s unicorns. |
Moon 44 (1990)Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
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In the year 2038, prisoners are sent as a last resort to defend a corporation’s last mining colony from attacks by another corporation’s robots. The capitalist spirit escalates into a zealous fervor that causes a war between rival multinational corporations. Amid this chaos, a behind-the-scenes agent is dispatched off-world to a darker corner of the universe to locate a person committing sabotage on a particular planet. |
Hair (1979)Friday, September 25th, 2009 |
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war. |
For a Few Dollars More (1965)Friday, September 25th, 2009 |
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Two bounty hunters are after the same man, Indio. At first, they go their own ways, but eventually get together to try and find him. But are they after him for the same reason ? |
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 |
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Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately “checks” in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as pornoflicks. |
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 |
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Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts “medical experiments”. Ilsa’s goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines. |
Pippi Longstocking (1969)Friday, July 10th, 2009 |
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Pippi Longstocking, a child of incredible strength, moves by herself to a Swedish town with her monkey, horse, and a bag full of gold coins. She befriends two children, Annika and Tommy, shocks the adults of the town, defends herself from bandits, and has a reunion with her seafaring father. |
Cruising (1980)Thursday, April 9th, 2009 |
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Cruising is the fictional account of a series of gruesome killings in modern day New York City. Steve Burns, a “beat” officer still wet behind the ears, is recruited by Captain Edelson of the NYPD Homicide Unit to go undercover in search of the perpetrator. The victims in these killings are all homosexual men known to frequent “Leather,” S&M (Sadism and Masochism), and B&D (Bondage and Dominance) clubs so Burns, in “deep cover,” must mascarade as gay in order to attract the killer. He fits the victims’ profiles: dark hair, dark complexion, dark eyes. Cruising tells the story of his adventures and misadventures in this small subculture of gay society as he searches for the killer. |
Banana Joe (1982)Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 |
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Banana Joe lives blissfully in a tropical village in Africa, untainted by the ills of modern society. But after a trip to the city, he is exposed to the criminal element, and zany banana trouble ensues! |














