Category: Movies
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
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¡Qué linda es mi familia!
A rebel son decides not to follow in his father’s footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.
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The Silent Lovers
The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
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Squeeze
Richard Turner made Squeeze to break the “conspiracy of silence” about homosexuality. A pioneering early portrait of Auckland’s LGBT scene, Squeeze centres on the relationship between a young man (Paul Eady) and the confident executive (Robert Shannon) who romances him, then mentions he has a fiancée. The film was discussed in Parliament after Patricia Bartlett…
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Stigma
The death of Sebastian’s father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older brother dies, he feels that he has caused it. He undergoes hypnosis, but his apparent supernatural powers continue. As his own life nears its end, he…
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Novogodnee priklyuchenie
The story of the acquaintance of two dads – a boy and a teddy bear. One dad did not have time to buy a Christmas tree and went to the forest to get it, and dad-bear went to the city to look for toys for the forest Christmas tree. That’s how they met.
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The Hemline
At a luxurious hotel various women spend their summer holidays trying, each one in her own way, to find the love of their life or solve the problems of a love affair. Through various misunderstandings and amusing incidents, the women find what they are looking for, with the help of luck and their female instinct.
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House of Evil Spirits
A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night radio music program, discovers a strange letter among a pile of postcards. It was a letter written in the style of a 5 or 6-year-old child, beginning with, “Mom, I am in a dark and cold world right now.” Saiko is…
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Poor Ioanide
Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of “things that are normal abroad but impossible here”, led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his…
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Tomorrow’s Joe The Movie
An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.
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Clausewitz – Lebensbild eines preußischen Generals
In November 1831, the 51-year-old Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz burns the first chapters of his autobiography, which he had begun to write at the insistence of his wife Marie. Shocked by the sudden death of his friend Gneisenau, he is forced to realize that at his friend’s deathbed he has finally said goodbye…
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark… But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
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Hopscotch
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency’s covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book…
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Vasantha Geetha
Vasantha, an ordinary insurance agent, and Geetha, an arrogant woman, get married after fighting initially. However, the ensuing marital issues due to class differences soon drive them apart.
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Unees-Bees
Siblings get separated in childhood. After years they faced each other as rivals.