À ma soeur
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Anais is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a teenage beauty. While on vacation with their parents, Anais tags along with Elena as she explores the dreary seaside town. […]
Tag Archives: Foreign films
Sun taam
Synopsis: 2007’s largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box office – the smash-hit Mad Detective – is one of the freshest and most satisfying films from that country in […]
Une vraie jeune fille
Synopsis: It’s summer in the 1960s and Alice has returned home from school for her vacation. Stifled by the boredom of life in the country, she becomes infatuated with Jim, […]
Jack Brown Genius
Synopsis: Jack Brown, a modern-day inventor, struggles with a medieval monk who’s living in his mind and wants him to rebuild two ancient wings and successfully fly so the monk […]
Hemel
Synopsis: Sex isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. Sacha Polak’s debut feature is a frank and explicit look at carnal desire that is told from a distinctly female perspective. She […]
Around the World in 80 Days
Synopsis: “Not until dawn on the day of departure did a full-blown, gut-tightening panic set in. I had volunteered to deliver these documentaries, (having only done one in my life […]
Mutantes
Synopsis: Punk, Porn, Feminism What is a pornographic image? What is the right attitude for society to adopt toward sex? Is pornography an acceptable form of expression – and if […]
All About Anna
Synopsis: The Passionate Story of a Sensuous Woman. A friend once said that every woman needs three men: One for adventure and fun, one for stimulating conversation and one for […]
Klip
Synopsis: A rebellious teenager’s relentless exploration of her newfound sexuality is this theme to this bold and very explicit drama. Fourteen-year-old Jasna (the mesmerizing Isidora Simojonivic) lives in a dreary Belgrade suburb […]
Romance
Synopsis: With cool precision and stunning intimacy, Catherine Breillat’s ROMANCE paints a provocative portrait of a young French woman, Marie, and her journey to gain control of her life. Marie’s […]
Ai no Korīda
Synopsis: Still censored in its own country, In The Realm Of The Senses (Ai no corrida), by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all […]
Les fruits de la passion
Synopsis: Hong Kong, 1920: To please her decadent lover, a beautiful young British woman submits to a life of sexual slavery in an Asian brothel. Subjected to the depraved fetishes […]
Hana to hebi (1974)
Synopsis: Shizuka (pink film starlet, Naomi Tani) is the aristocratic wife of Senzo Toyama, the president of a large company. Repulsed by her husband, she enlists her lifelong maid to […]
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