FALLEN LEAVES (2023, NR, 1H 21M):Stars: Alma Pysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiinen |Director: Aki Kaurismki |Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful... more
In this Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film (1994), little things mean a lot in the world of 10-year-old Mui, a girl who's trained to be a house servant in 1950s Vietnam. As Mui grows up in... more
Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Yannis Fertis. The original epic retelling of Euripides' classic play about siblings who band together to seek revenge on their their mother whom they believe killed... more
Stephane Audran, Jean-Phillipe Lafont. A delicious Isak Dinesen tale about two pious Danish sisters who take a mysterious Parisian woman into their home to be a maid. Winner of the Best Foreign Film... more
Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca. Some would say it's a perfect arrangement. Sultry Dona Flor has a dependably dull new husband and a sexy ex—who happens to be dead! Based on a novel by Jorge... more
Cult Epics presents the NOUCHKA VAN BRAKEL TRILOGY; three subversive and controversial films dealing with strong female characters and their sexual identity in society.
THE DEBUT (Het Debuut)... more
Helena Ramos. A naive young girl gets pregnant and her family angrily tosses her out. But when her baby is born in need of critical, life-saving medical treatment, she goes to work at a local brothel... more
This Yasujiro Ozu double feature presents the sensitive original silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura. 1934/b&w/89 min.) followed by the celebrated remake Floating... more
Three-disc set includes: Emitaï (1971)During World War II, Vichy France wasn't shy about conscripting soldiers from it's colonies, or levying oppressive taxes upon them. As the residents of a Jola... more
Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more
Akira Kurosawa defined the path for Japanese filmmakers by opening the post-World War II door to American audiences. This multi-disc set features five of Kurosawa's finest: No Regrets for Our Youth... more
Jakob Oftebro, Kristofer Hivju, Pal Sverre Hagen. In the midst of Norway's Civil War, the ailing King of Norway finally has a son and heir, who must be protected by the vigilante rebels who defend... more
Echo Park, L.A. is the setting for a gang movie that beats the competition every way it knows how. Sad Girl and Mousie have fallen out over a guy. But when he's murdered by a rival gang-leader, it's... more
On an abandoned tanker In the Persian Gulf city of Abadan, 11-year-old orphan Amiro (Madjid Niroumand) got by on his wits, bottle-picking and shining shoes for change when not in playful competition... more
Having rejected a marriage proposal and now facing limited options after graduation, Indonesian high-school student Yuni (Arawinda Kirana) finds herself having to define her desires within a society... more
There's never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema's steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker... more
Irene Pappas, Costa Kazakos, Tatiana Papamoskou. Landlocked by miserable weather at the beginning of the Trojan War, Agememnon must decide whether sacrificing his beautiful daughter to the gods is... more
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and... more
Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato. This first film by Hideo Gosha is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series of the same name,... more
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of... more