When the colorful Caravana Rolidei rolls into town, young accordionist Cico (Fábio Junior) leaves behind his mundane existence and joins the troupe along with his pregnant wife. Led by the mysterious Gypsy Lord (José Wilker) and featuring the seductive Salomé (Betty Faria), the Queen of the Rhumb...

Adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by Tomiko Miyao, ONIMASA recounts the sophisticated tale of an uber-fierce yakuza boss (played with savage intensity by Tatsuya Nakadai) as seen through the eyes of his resilient adopted daughter. Kidnapping, prostitution and revenge are all meticulously...

Sold into a Yoshiwara red-light district brothel by her destitute father, demure ingenue Hisano (Yuko Natori) soon learns the ways of her new world from the establishment’s top three courtesans. Her coming of age is a trial by fire as she rises up the ranks, while juggling lovers and her own pers...

In 1937 after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier,...

Released from his mandatory military service, Makdong (Han Suk-gyu) returns to a hometown he no longer recognizes. After rescuing a beautiful young woman from harassment on a train, his life takes an unexpected turn when she unwittingly lures him into the criminal underworld. Finding himself in a...

Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Gong-ju is kept cloistered in a cheap apartment by her ...

Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity – from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callo...

Saeko, a 27-year-old housewife without children, loves reading books and often goes to an nearby library. She accidentally comes across a dirty magazine filled with pictures of naked women. Among the photos, she finds one of a young woman who seems different than all the others and, out of curios...

Bored in her marriage, Desideria (Ana Belén) meets and falls in love with Yaman (Georges Corraface), a handsome Turkish tour guide, while on holiday in Istanbul. Fueled by a passion she has never felt before, Desideria leaves her husband and plunges herself into an obsessive affair with Yaman, wh...

Luis (Lautaro Murua), an aging Spanish fascist author lives in virtual isolation on the Sitges coast, where he fabricates his memoirs while suffering from a guilty past. Two reporters, his niece Mariana (Victoria Abril) and her friend Elmyr, arrive to interview him for a magazine expose. Caught u...

Before their next gig, Spanish punk rock band The Killer Barbies endure a setback when their van breaks down in the backwoods. Stumbling through the gloomy wilderness, they eventually end up in the eerie castle of Countess Von Fledermaus. But can the unsuspecting visitors survive the hours of dar...

Considered one of the first true fly-fishing films, TARPON brings together famed American authors Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison with legendary flats guides Woody Sexton, Gil Drake, and Steve Huff as they muse about life, art, nature, and fishing the majestic tarpon.

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Fifteen-year-old Lulu (Francesca Neri) has a crush on Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the best friend of her older brother, and loses her virginity to him. Years later, as an adult, they meet again in Madrid, where Pablo introduces her to a dangerous world of uninhibited desire. Based on the controversial...

1938. Happy to leave the Spanish Civil War behind, a movie troupe travels to Hitler’s Berlin to shoot an international production at UFA studios. They soon discover that they have escaped one war only to end up in another, and that the hospitality of Joseph Goebbels, the German Minister of Propag...

With the help of a crime syndicate, Chang Chun-chiu travels from Canton to New York’s Chinatown by way of Hong Kong. There, he enters into a sham marriage with the sister of a friend in order to obtain a green card and works at a Canal Street sweatshop to pay off his debts. Immigration authoritie...

During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic (Thomas Mogotlane), a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His interrogation reveals the motivation for his involvement in the township riots. Once only concerned with partying, alcohol and his ow...

Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two b...

It’s not Interpol, it's Asia-pol, a law enforcement agency somewhere between the police and Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jimmy Wang Yu (One-Armed Swordsman) stars in his first major modern day role as a down and dirty secret agent battling against homicidal Japanese gold smugglers amidst femme f...

In postwar Japan a downtrodden neighborhood is nearly torn apart when a Korean gang tries to take over the local market. As anger escalates to the brink, tough as nails WWII veteran Dr. Amamiya (played by real life former yakuza Noboru Ando) steps in to stop the conflict.

Director Tai Kato’s gr...

As the police investigate a sudden rash of brutal murders whose victims are all women the unscrupulous killer’s murky motivations remain hauntingly elusive. A labyrinthine character study slowly unfolds implying that the targets of these unspeakable acts may be culpable in their own shocking demi...

Amid the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, Russ Meyer transcended the sexploitation genre by crafting this "bosomacious melodrama" (Time Magazine) about racism, communism, bush pilots and draft dodgers, which stars Erica Gavin (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Caged Heat) in the titular role as...

Russ Meyer returns to his camp roots in this "sort of sequel" to his 1968 wildly successful hit Vixen. When a hot-blooded wife (Shari Eubank) and a psychotic cop (Charles Napier) come together, it ignites a cross-country odyssey of violence, vengeance and relentless coitus. John Lazar (Beyond the...

The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take on Our Town, co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert. Francesca “Kitten” Natividad stars - along with Uschi Digard, Ann Marie and Meyer himself - in this unwashed look at Small Town USA, complete with faith h...

At the turn of the twentieth century, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) accompanies his parents, Joseph (Philippe Caubère) and Augustine (Nathalie Roussel), on a life-changing holiday to the Provence countryside. During these magical summer months, he befriends a local boy, who shares with him ...