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Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Zatôichi hatashi-jô AKA Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
Synopsis:Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi becomes involved with a gang of bandits hiding out in a small village. While they hide in the attic of a silk mill, they manipulate the corrupt...
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Teruo Ishii – Hîchirimen bâkuto – Nôbarydu takahadâ AKA The Tattooed...
Synopsis:Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents’ leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a glancing...
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Jean-Pierre Melville – Le Cercle Rouge AKA The Red Circle (1970)
Synopsis:Master thief Corey (Alain Delon) is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those...
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Zivorad ‘Zika’ Mitrovic – Do pobedata i po nea AKA Before and After the...
A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of the regime. 1.21GB | 1 h 50 min | 960×444 | mkv...
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Lindsay Anderson – The White Bus (1967)
Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney’s The White Bus is a surrealistic film about a secretary who takes a strange trip, part of which takes place on the eponymous vehicle. The nameless girl has a...
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Peter Brook, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson – Red White And Zero (1967)
A film in three partsPart One – The Ride of The Valkyrie An opera singer must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance. Part Two – The White Bus An...
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Sergio Corbucci – Gli specialisti AKA The Specialists (1969)
Johnny Hallyday plays Hud, a dressed all-in-black gunman extraordinaire who returns to the town of Blackstone to seek out the men responsible for the lynching of his brother.Seems someone robbed the...
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Akira Kurosawa – Akahige AKA Red Beard [+commentary] (1965)
Synopsis:In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide, takes a young intern under his guidance through the course of a number of difficult cases. Review:A monumental...
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – Las Doce Sillas AKA The Twelve Chairs (1962)
Plot outline from IMDB:When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can’t bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of...
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Jun Li – Nong nu AKA Serfs (1963)
From the BFI website:Drama about the exploitation of a Tibetan serf and his liberation by the People’s Liberation Army. Orphaned Jampa is brought up by his grandmother until she dies when he is...
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Philippe Agostini – L’âge heureux [+Interview] (1966)
– Interview with Delphine Desyeux (dancer) included Delphine’s dream is to become a ballerina; another young dancer, Julie, is jealous of her. 4.20GB | 3 h 28 min | 768×576 | mkv...
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Glauber Rocha – O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro AKA Antonio das...
Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to “God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun” (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes...
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Kaneto Shindô – Onibaba AKA Devil Woman (1964)
Synopsis:In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their...
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Kenji Misumi – Zatôichi abare-himatsuri AKA Zatoichi Goes to the Fire...
Synopsis:Cowritten by star Shintaro Katsu, this adventure pits Zatoichi against one of his most diabolical foes: a blind yakuza boss whose reign of terror and exploitation has made him nearly mythic....
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Anatole Litvak – The Night of the Generals (1967)
Synopsis:In 1942 Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Major Grau, an agent from German Intelligence who believes in justice, is in charge of the investigation. An eyewitness saw...
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Jan Nemec – O slavnosti a hostech AKA The Party and the Guests (1966)
Distinguished as being ‘banned forever’ in its native Czechoslovakia, Nemec’s film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of governmental and institutional power and with...
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Mikio Naruse – Onna no naka ni iru tanin AKA The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Synopsis:Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro...
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Ermanno Olmi – Il posto (1961)
Quote:When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach AKA The...
Jean-Marie Straub’s 1967 film of the marriage between the widower Bach and Anna Magdalena. The film has a musical structure that is very much like Bach’s own St. Matthew Passion; and Straub uses the...
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Glauber Rocha – Barravento AKA The Turning Wind (1962)
Rocha’s first film, a denunciation of exploitation and the superstition that helps maintain it; an exploration of ‘macumba’, the mixture of Christianity and African tribal religion whose superstition...
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