Santa Sangre
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Santa Sangre
1989
7
A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Santa Sangre
1989
7
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Зеркало
1975
8
This collection of experimental shorts includes the winner form SXSW film festival and celebrates the talents of Australian filmaker Julian Dahl (Camjackers). After traveling major film festivals world wide, the collection is made available to American audience for the first tiem in this unique release we are proud to present, experimental filmmaking rarely seen in release featuring, in the words of David Finkelstein; "Stark Photography That Resonates On a Poeti and Symbolic Level." Incluces; "Falling," "Puppy Love," "Stream," "Insect," "Alien Baby," "Go," "Camjackers Trailer," an interview with filmaker Julian Dahl and a bunch of extras
Utopia One
2007
0
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
Serenity
1961
6
Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.
White Hole
1979
6
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Persepolis
2007
7
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
7
An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two young men from a small town, and a cuckolded policeman from the sticks all find their way to Berlin on May Day, where, in the district of Kreuzberg, emotions come to the boil every year.
1. Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit
2008
5
An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.
Laberinto de pasiones
1982
6
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Control
2007
7
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
6
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
Was tun, wenn's brennt?
2001
6
Вісім
2016
0
Flo und sein Kumpel Hotte arbeiten in der mies gehenden Neuköllner Videothek Video König. Kein Wunder, denn Hotte glänzt mit null Filmwissen, und Flo muss mit damit fertig werden, von seiner Freundin verlassen worden zu sein. Die beiden Unglücksvögel lassen sich vom Kiez-Gauner Bernhardt abzocken, von Schlägern die Fresse polieren und Inkasso-Unternehmen drangsalieren. Ein Glück, dass für Flo wenigstens wieder die Liebe in Form von Nachbarin Ramona lacht, auch wenn diese möglicherweise eine Prostituierte ist.
Video Kings
2007
5
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón
1980
6
A kaleidoscopic perspective into one woman's experience with self-dissolution and urban alienation.
Pounds of Matter
2022
0
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
River of Fundament
2014
6
Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches.
Lux Æterna
2020
6
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
SLC Punk
1998
7
Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos.
Giulia
1999
3