d. Lucio Fulci
c. Italy
y. 1964
description:
"A minor comedy from Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2; L'Aldila), this anthology is of interest primarily to cult devotees for marking the notorious director's only collaboration with legendary "scream queen" Barbara Steele (La Maschera del Demonio). Lushly photographed and filled with popular comedians of the era (including Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, who made several of their "Franco and Ciccio" comedies with Fulci), the film's sketches spotlight various manias. As might be expected, nymphomania gets an extended treatment, with all the requisite mugging, leering, and smarmy asides common to Italian comedies of the period, as well as a lengthy parade of songs, many scored by Ennio Morricone, and some international burlesque performers. Enrico Maria Salerno and Walter Chiari lead a cast which includes Lisa Gastoni, Gaia Germani, Umberto d'Orsi, and Raimondo Vianello." (AMG)
IMDB... 5.2 (15)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: ?
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The Maniacs
Strongman Ferdinand
d. Alexander Kluge
c. West Germany
y. 1976
description:
"Ferdinand Rieche (Heinz Schubert) was a policeman, but found the legal constraints of that profession too stifling. He gets into the business of protecting manufacturing plants and outfits and trains his men like a private army expecting an invasion. After his excesses prove too much for his bosses, he is fired, and Ferdinand takes his strong opinions back into public life." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.1 (34)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Artists and Models Abroad
d. Mitchell Leisen
c. USA
y. 1938
description:
"In this musical sequel to the highly successful Artists and Models, Jack Benny plays Buck Boswell, the leader of a troupe of performers who end up broke and stranded in gay Paris. To rustle up a little cash, he decides to produce a musical fashion show. Boswell hires an American father and daughter to perform because he thinks they too are impoverished. Things happen, and Boswell nearly loses his show until his two Yanks reveal that they are loaded." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.0 (31)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 940MB
qlty: VHS
subs: n/a
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The Boss
d. Byron Haskin
c. USA
y. 1956
description:
"John Payne always felt that he delivered his best screen performance in The Boss. Set in the years following WW1, the story concerns a small-town veteran named Matt Brady (John Payne), whose brother, machine politician Tim Brady (Roy Roberts), arranges for Matt to get a cushy government job. When Tim dies, Matt takes over his operation, eventually assuming control of the entire state (which judiciously remains unnamed in the film). Though a successful power broker, Matt is unable to win the woman he loves (Doe Avedon), so he settles for another (Gloria McGhee) whom he treats atrociously. A falling out with his best friend/severest critic Bob Herrick (William Bishop) sets the stage for the ruthless Brady's inevitable downfall. Though all the names were changed to protect the guilty, audiences in 1956 were quick to perceive that the film was a thinly disguised attack on the Pendergast machine of Kansas City, Missouri. Coproduced and cowritten by John Payne, The Boss falters only in its overreliance upon anachronistic newsreel footage." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.2 (37)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 850MB
qlty: VHS
subs: n/a
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Yoshiwara
d. Max Ophuls
c. France
y. 1937
description:
"This bit of elegant esoterica was Max Ophuls' only directorial effort for 1937. Japanese matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa made a long-overdue return to films as Yaamo, a humble Chinese coolie in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Kohana (Michiko Tanaka). Following her father's suicide, Kohana is reduced to working as a Geisha girl, and it is in this capacity that she meets Russian naval officer Serge Polinoff (Pierre-Richard Willm), who marries the girl and takes her back to his homeland. Now regarding Kohana as a traitor, Yaamo swears vengeance on both the girl and her Russian husband. At film's end, only Kohana is left alive, which in context is surprising indeed. The Japanese government issued a formal complaint about the content of Yoshiwara, but French moviegoers were not yet conditioned to take such things seriously, and the film was a hit." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.2 (27)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1090MB
qlty: TV
subs: no
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The Lion Has Seven Heads
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1971
description:
"This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a shadowy operative is stripped naked, thrown in a cage and crucified by the sinful and sadistic spiritual scum. The guerilla eventually escapes to exact revenge on the enemy." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (26)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 570MB
qlty: VHS
subs: ?
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Each Night I Dream
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1933
description:
"This silent feature by the esteemed Japanese director Mikio Naruse takes the form of a domestic melodrama. Sumiko Kurishima stars as Omitsu, a barmaid and single parent long-estranged from her irresponsible, out-of-work husband (Tatsuo Saito). When he suddenly returns without advance warning, she does anything and everything in her power to pull the pieces of her shattered family back together. Naruse employs heavy stylization to tell his story, including the repeated use of montage, a fractured chronology, and metonymical close-ups of characters' moving legs. When combined, these elements imbue the motion picture with much tension and a lingering sense of unease." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.9 (28)
_AMG... n/a
size: 480MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes
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The Last Indian Attack
d. Alcides Greca
c. Argentina
y. 1917
description:
"El Último Malón it is one of the early Argentinean silent films that has survived until today. It was the only film that was directed by Herr Alcides Greca, a man with many cultural interests as a journalist and writer and with other more useful interests as a lawyer and politician. The film depicts the revolt of the Mocovies, Argentinean Indians, in the city of San Javier in 1904. Herr Alcides Greca was a native of that city and thus his interest to tell the world what happened in his town." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 7.4 (6)
_AMG... n/a
size: 590MB
qlty: VHS
subs: n/a
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Carrot Top
d. Julien Duvivier
c. France
y. 1925
description:
"A family is a group of people living under the same roof who cannot stand each other." So writes young François Lepic, nicknamed Poil de carotte (Carrot-top), in his school essay - and he gets soundly rapped on the knuckles by his teacher for it. But the poor boy is used to such abuse: at home his mother takes a vicious delight in maltreating him, his brother and sister torment him, and his father simply ignores him. Only the maid understands him and foresees the possible tragedy lying ahead." (Cine-Clasico)
IMDB... 7.2 (9)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Blind Justice
d. Benjamin Christensen
c. Denmark
y. 1916
description:
"Directed by Benjamin Christensen, who would later become quite notable, this Danish silent film was a classic romantic melodrama about an escaped criminal who "steals" his own child from an orphanage before seeking refuge at a nearby manor home. The daughter of the house agrees to help him feed the child but the escaped prisoner is arrested once again. Paroled after 14 years, the reformed man learns that his child has been adopted by the same girl who once came to his assistance. Christensen played the escaped convict himself in this the only notable film from the now forgotten Dansk Biografkompagni ("Danish Biograph Company")." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (27)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1370MB
qlty: DVD
subs: n/a
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The Mysterious X
d. Benjamin Christensen
c. Denmark
y. 1914
description:
"One modern critic termed this classic of the Danish silent screen, "a bad story translated into moving pictures with a visual energy that still commands respect." Directed by future Hollywood emigre Benjamin Christensen, Det Hemmelighedsfulde X told a sordid story of a navy officer (Christensen) falsely accused of being a spy and stubbornly refusing to hand over proof of his innocence in order to protect a philandering wife. An innovator, Christensen astounded audiences by filming the turning on of an electric light. Motion pictures were shot in natural sunlight in those days, and Christensen was forced to use trick photography. The set was draped with black cloth and Karen Sandberg, playing the adulterous wife, entered to "turn on the light." The camera was stopped while the cloth was removed and the actress remained still. When filming resumed, the set was bathed in light. Det Hemmelighedsfulde X, along with the Swedish Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), led to a contract with Ufa in Germany and, in time, the invitation to Hollywood. Alas, Christensen's stay in America was, by and large, a disappointment, and he returned to his native country where he mainly directed programmers." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.9 (44)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: n/a
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Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
d. Esfir Shub
c. USSR
y. 1927
description:
"Soviet filmmaker Esfir Shub assembled this historical documentary, which uses newsreel footage (some show by Czar Nicholas II's own camera men) to depict the tummultuous events of 1912 through 1917, as the leadership of the Czar and the Russian aristocracy crumbles and Lenin rises to power in the wake of the Soviet Revolution." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.1 (38)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: n/a
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Impressions de la haute Mongolie
d. Salvador Dali
c. West Germany
y. 1976
description:
"An elaborate yarn about a search for giant hallucinogenic mushrooms." (IMDB comment)
IMDB... 6.4 (23)
_AMG... n/a
size: 500MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?
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