Plot: Keaton stars as Bertie Van Alstyne, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are foisted upon him, he pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures all around New York.
AKA: Blizna Poland: 1976
Agnieszka Holland, Franciszek Pieczka, Halina Winiarska Drama
Plot: A drama of the shifting fortunes of a massive rural factory project, "The Scar" pits community against government, environment against industry and ambition against responsibility citizens plumb the gap between socialism and the anarchy of human nature.
AKA: Zigeunerweisen; Kagegro-Za; Yumeji Japan: 2006 Drama / Art
Plot: Contains the following three films from director Seijun Suzuki's "Taisho Trilogy" (also available individually): "Zigeunerweisen", "Kagegro-za", and "Yumeji".
Plot: Buster plays a romantically jinxed young man who must marry by 7:00 PM to inherit seven million dollars. While fate thwarts his efforts to his true love, public announcement of his predicament inundates him with a throng of aggressive would-be brides.
AKA: The 7th Continent; Der Siebente Kontinent Austria: 1989
Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samuel Drama / Art
Plot: This is the story of a bourgeois family unit; of professional success; of the price to pay for conformism and the story of a psychological blindness that leads to their self-destruction.
AKA: Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl; Sharkskin Man And Peach Hip Girl; Samehada Otoko To Momojiri Onna; Samehada Otoko To Momojiri Musume Japan: 1998
Tadanobu Asano, Ittoku Kishibe, Sie Kohinata, Kimie Shingyoji Crime / Action/Adventure
Plot: This outrageous contemporary Japanese genre-mongrel combines sentimental Yakuza gangster machismo with the fatalistic romance of the road movie and the deadpan irreverence of vanguard Asian action cinema.
Plot: A lawyer is assigned to defend a man who has murdered a taxi driver for apparently no reason. After the young man is found guilty and sentenced to death, the lawyer begins to wonder whether murdering someone as a punishment for murder makes sense.<--c-->
AKA: Krótki Film O Milosci; Krotki Film O Milosci; Decalogue; Dekalog Poland: 1988
Artur Barcis, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko Drama / Romance
Plot: Orphan teenager Tomek spawns a romantic fascination with Magda, a beautiful and promiscuous older woman. For Magda, the spiritual beauty that Tomek's infatuation may awaken within her sets the stage for torment and redemption of Shakespearean dimensions.
Japan: 1995
Eiji Okada, Jo Shishido, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Masatoshi Nagase Action/Adventure / Drama
Plot: Picking up where "The Most Terrible Time in My Life" left off, "Stairway..." delivers a knockout combination of visuals and savvy pulp storytelling more luridly violent, outrageously ironic and sincerely affecting than its predecessor.
Russia: 1979
Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn Mystery / Science Fiction
Plot: Based on the novel 'Roadside Picnic,' which centers around a number of zones created by visiting extra-terrestrials. These zones hold special powers; they can grant wishes or set traps.
An outstanding documentary that gives an amazing glimpse into a world that literally no westerners have ever seen before. Truly eye-opening and riveting.
Plot: The story of 3 girlfriends who have just graduated from high school in Korea. Now that they've entered the "adult" world, they must begin to find their own way in life, and must restructure almost everything, including their relationships with each other.
All the restaurant scenes are captivating, energetic, and thoroughly believable. The delivery scenes fall flat due to a catastrophically catatonic protagonist.
Plot: In the sweltering heat of a Korean summer, trash bags begin to appear around the city of Seoul filled with assorted, unrelated body parts. As Detective Cho begins to investigate, his most promising lead is a quiet woman who has dated all the victims...
AKA: 3 Ages USA: 1923
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Margaret Leahy Comedy / Action/Adventure
Plot: This clever film follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: from the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era.
Plot: Directed by international rising star Ryuichi Hiroki ("I Am An S&M Writer", "Vibrator", "It's Only Talk"), "Tokyo Trash Baby" is a sly, funny critique of modern consumer culture and an examination of the difficulties of contemporary urban romance.
AKA: Wana; Trap Japan: 1996
Jo Shishido, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Masatoshi Nagase, Tomoko Yamaguchi Action/Adventure / Drama
Plot: Things are not what they seem when a hooded stranger appears in private eye Maiku "Mike" Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of murders that have the police baffled and the city terrified.
USA: 1983
Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson, Nan Goldin Drama / Erotica
Plot: A woman working at the ticket booth of a New York porno theater finds herself drawn to--and eventually obsessed by--the dark world of pornography.
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