Fifteen-year-old Lulu has a crush on Pablo, the best friend of her older brother, and loses her virginity to him. Years later, they meet again, and Pablo introduces her to a dangerous world of uninhibited desire. Based on the controversial novel by Almudena Grandes.

A ragtag team of four tough cops are tasked with escorting the notorious gangster Playboy to prison. But when a price is put on his head and a swarm of hardened inmates riot to claim the bounty, the officers must fight for their survival.

Zahara lives on a deserted island, eking out a living by gathering turtle eggs. Determined to enroll her niece in school, Zahara canoes to the mainland only to be met with indifference. Returning to the island, she meets a stranger who unleashes fantastical elements of chaos.

A small-town dreamer – and the biggest Jackie Chan fan – comes to the city to enroll in the police academy but soon runs afoul of local gangsters.

A pair of bumbling private detectives try to uncover the truth behind the death of a Japanese girl's father and the family fortune stolen by her evil uncle.

Ma Yong Zhen moves to the big city and sets out to make his fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty by rising to the top of the Shanghai triad ladder.

Three stories of migration, exile and memory develop in a small Cuban town. Alex and Edith build their lives amidst the nation's ruins. Milagros sells peanut cones on the street. Best friends Frank and Alain dream of becoming baseball players in the U.S.

Happy to leave the Spanish Civil War behind, a movie troupe travels to Hitler’s Berlin. There they discover that the hospitality of the German Minister of Propaganda is tied to his interest in their young actress Macarena Granada (Penélope Cruz).

With the help of an illegal syndicate, young Chang Chun-chiu from Canton travels to Hong Kong on the way to New York’s Chinatown, where he enters into a sham marriage and becomes indebted to thugs.

DIRECTED BY MABEL CHEUNG, WANTING ZHANG
HONG KONG | 1985 | CANTONESE, ENGLISH, MANDARIN WITH ENGLI...

During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic, a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. Once only concerned with personal interests, he now must choose between freedom and taking a stand.

A jaded psychiatrist enters a menacing relationship of power, sex and betrayal with a woman he has begun to control through hypnotism.

Okiku lives in a tenement row house in the sprawling city of Edo. There, she cares for her father, whom she supports by teaching children in a temple school. Yasuke and his newly recruited partner, Chuji, regularly visit the tenement to collect the human manure from the outhouse. Okiku takes a sp...

Inside his secret workshop, a psychotic retired swordsman creates lanterns made from the human skin of his enemies’ sisters, mistresses and wives.

A depraved Sung Dynasty lothario, who already has one wife and three concubines, resorts to murder and bribery in order to satisfy his sexual whims and conquer the objects of his desire.

Semret is an Eritrean single mother who works at a local Zurich hospital and is studying to become a midwife. But when her now teenage daughter Joe begins to ask questions about her origins, she must confront the tragic memories of her past and relive her traumas as a refugee.

DIRECTED BY CATERI...

Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, and Gong LI star in Chen Kaige's adaptation of Lilian Lee's epic novel set against the backdrop of the Peking Opera.

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 stars as a down and dirty secret agent battling against homicidal Japanese gold smugglers amidst femme fatales, damsels-in-distress and erotic strip tease artists.

In postwar Japan a neighborhood is nearly torn apart when a Korean gang tries to take over the local market until a tough doctor steps in. Tai Kato’s groundbreaking feature tackles controversial issues with a blend of melodrama and action.

As the police investigate a rash of brutal murders, the unscrupulous killer’s murky motivations remain elusive. A labyrinthine character study slowly unfolds implying that the targets of these attacks may be culpable in their own demise.

Four women with very different life stories come together at Girl's Blood, a members-only, illegal mixed martial arts league in Roppongi, where the participants dress up in unique cosplay and fight each other in brutal cage matches.

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.

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

The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take on Our Town that presents an unwashed look at Small Town USA, complete with faith healers, war criminals, bosom buddies and the quest for sexual salvation.