Released Date:
1979-04-01
Languages:
German
Countries:
West Germany
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1387 Reviews)
Director:
Wim WendersGenres:
DramaJohann Wolfgang Goethe (novel)
Peter Handke (screenplay)
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change. An actress, whom Wilhelm gazes at, joins them. Then, a plump young man introduces himself, having heard them talk of poetry. He takes them to his uncle's, except it's the wrong house; they interrupt a man's suicide. He invites them to stay. The actress tries to connect to Wilhelm. Couplings and rare bursts of feeling come as surprises; other characters remain alone.
Released Date:
1980-12-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, UK
Runtime:
186 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (10134 Reviews)
Director:
Roman PolanskiGèrard Brach (screenplay)
Roman Polanski (screenplay)
John Brownjohn (screenplay)
Thomas Hardy (novel)
Wessex County, England during the Victorian era. Christian values dominate what are social mores. These mores and her interactions with two men play a large part in what happens in the young life of peasant girl, the shy, innocent, proper yet proud Tess Durbeyfield. The first of these men is Alec d'Urberville. After learning from a local historian that they are really descendants of the aristocratic d'Urberville family which has died out due to lack of male heirs, Tess' parents send her to a nearby mansion where they know some d'Urbervilles actually reside. This move is in order for the family to gain some benefit from their heritage. Upon her arrival at the mansion, Tess quickly learns that the family of Tess' "cousin" Alec are not true d'Urbervilles, but rather an opportunistic lot who bought the family name in order to improve their own standing in life. Tess is pulled between what she was sent to accomplish for her family against her general disdain for Alec, who will give her anything she wants in return for sexual favors. The second of these men is Angel Clare, the son of a parson and an apprentice farmer. Angel and Tess fall in love with each other. Tess has to decide if she will divulge to Angel her past relationship with Alec, which if she does may jeopardize their own relationship. But if she doesn't, Tess also has to figure out if the secret will haunt her and thus jeopardize their relationship in other ways.
Released Date:
1982-04-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (13316 Reviews)
Director:
Paul SchraderDeWitt Bodeen (story)
Alan Ormsby (screenplay)
The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People before they transform into panthers. Irene Gallier was raised by adoptive parents and meets her older brother Paul for the first time since childhood. We follow brother and sister - who seem to be the only ones of their kind left.
Released Date:
1983-05-18
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (908 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Jacques BeineixGenres:
DramaJean-Jacques Beineix (scenario)
Olivier Mergault (scenario)
David Goodis (novel)
In Marseilles, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Nightly, her brother Gerard broods at the scene hoping to catch the rapist. He lives with his lover Bella whom he neglects, an alcoholic brother who lurks about, and his father who's stayed drunk since the daughter's death, ignoring work and his own companion. At a seedy bar, Gerard meets a wealthy, nihilistic hedonist and his beautiful sister. Gerard flips for her and thinks she's his ticket out of the slum. Bella warns him otherwise and also, in jealousy, sets two thugs on him. Then Gerard thinks he's found his sister's rapist. These emotional crises force Gerard to choose what's most important.
Released Date:
1985-01-01
Languages:
English, Croatian, Serbian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1627 Reviews)
Director:
Andrey KonchalovskiyGèrard Brach (screenplay)
Andrey Konchalovskiy (screenplay)
Paul Zindel (screenplay)
Marjorie David (screenplay)
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan's dad's advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.
Released Date:
1985-11-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.7 (491 Reviews)
Director:
Arthur JoffèGenres:
DramaArthur Joffè (original scenario)
Arthur Joffè (adaptation)
Tom Rayfiel (adaptation)
A young American woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheik and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Released Date:
1985-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Norway
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (4746 Reviews)
Director:
Hugh HudsonNew York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
Released Date:
1987-09-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (140 Reviews)
Director:
Jacques DerayDanièle Thompson
Andrzej Zulawski (story)
Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clèment, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clèment's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clèment makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancèe, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clèment, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
Released Date:
1993-12-21
Languages:
German, French, English, Italian, Russian
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
140 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (5426 Reviews)
Director:
Wim WendersRichard Reitinger
Wim Wenders
Ulrich Zieger
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Released Date:
1997-05-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (11473 Reviews)
Director:
Ivan ReitmanFrancis Veber (film Les Compères)
Lowell Ganz (screenplay)
Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)
Jack Lawrence is a smart aleck lawyer who is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid was his. Enter Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who is also a writer, meets with the same ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover what had happened: they've been told the same story and now there's a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band called Sugar Ray around. So Jack and Dale hit the road to Sacramento and find their drunk, love-struck son. Soon after they bring him back to their hotel room, their son escapes and Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him again, bring him home, and find out which one of them is the real father.
Released Date:
1998-05-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1673 Reviews)
Director:
Antonio TibaldiGenres:
DramaLiving in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, who have an incestuous relationship at the insistence of the dad; and, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who sleeps out in the shed, has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman of middle age comes to town looking for a dead private eye. And why does dad keep calling Jimmy, "little boy blue"?
Released Date:
1998-08-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (6882 Reviews)
Director:
Neil LaButeTheater instructor Jerry starts an affair with Mary, and that starts a chain of events that affect their respective partners Terri and Barry and other characters in the film, creating a web of relationships.
Released Date:
1997-11-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (5470 Reviews)
Director:
Mike FiggisLos Angeles advertisement director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with A.I.D.S. in New York. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to each other and after they meet later that day at the concert, they have a passionate night. Then he returns home to L.A. to his family and wife Mimi. A year later Max returns to New York again to visit Charlie who is now dying, and there he meets Karen again, who is married to Charlie's brother Vernon.
Released Date:
1998-11-20
Languages:
English, Serbo-Croatian, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (8380 Reviews)
Director:
Predrag AntonijevicJoshua is a former U.S. military official who fled to the Foreign Legion when his wife Maria was killed by Muslim fundamentalists in Paris, and now he's a mercenary, fighting in the Yugoslav war on the Serbian side against Muslims.
Released Date:
1997-11-16
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1671 Reviews)
Director:
David GreeneLynda La Plante (novel)
Lynda La Plante (teleplay)
When Sofia marries into a Mafia family, she doesn't know what she's getting into. When her husband, all her brothers-in-law, and her father-in-law are murdered by a rival family, Sofia, her mother-in-law and her sisters-in-law swear to get revenge upon the family.
Released Date:
1998-08-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (6907 Reviews)
Director:
Neil LaButeTheater instructor Jerry starts an affair with Mary, and that starts a chain of events that affect their respective partners Terri and Barry and other characters in the film, creating a web of relationships.
Released Date:
2001-04-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
4.3 (4007 Reviews)
Director:
Peter ChelsomPorter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
Released Date:
1999-04-21
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
France, UK, USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1231 Reviews)
Director:
Chris MengesEric Leclere
Margaret Leclere
Mark Mills
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He involves a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian," the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.
Released Date:
2000-02-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (381 Reviews)
Director:
Robert WiseGenres:
DramaAn old Jewish shop owner Mr. Shaddick ('Peter Falk') suddenly finds himself responsible for a little black boy named Herman Washington ('Aaron Meek') trying to escape the chaos of Harlem as part of a sponsorship program. At first, Mr. Shaddick wants nothing more than to get rid of the kid, but to spite the well to do lady who tries to take him over to her home, he decides to take Herman in. As time goes on, Mr. Shaddick finds himself caring about Herman and has the misfortune of being the bearer of bad news, which reminds him of when he received a telegram himself.
Released Date:
2001-02-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, France, Canada
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (5148 Reviews)
Director:
Michael WinterbottomThomas Hardy (novel)
Frank Cottrell Boyce (screenplay)
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scout the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Released Date:
2002-02-28
Languages:
English, Hungarian
Countries:
USA, Hungary
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (3171 Reviews)
Director:
èva GèrdosGenres:
DramaIn 1950, a Hungarian couple, Peter and Margit, are forced to flee from the oppressive communist country for the USA with their eldest daughter Maria, but are forced to leave behind their infant daughter Suzanne who is raised by kindly foster couple. 6 years later, Peter and Margit arrange for the American Red Cross to bring Suzanne to their new home in Los Angeles where the perplexed youth is forced to accept her sudden change in home and country which leads to a troubled growing up. At age 15, the rebelious and unsure-of-herself Suzanne tries to come to terms with her roots and decides to travel back to Budapest, Hungary to find her true idenity.
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