7
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
7
Oplev dette fantastiske filmeventyr, hvori den legendariske Sinbad Søfareren begiver sig ud på en farefuld rejse til Kolossus' mystiske ø. Sinbad kæmper for at bryde den forbandelse, en dæmonisk troldmand har kastet på hans elskede prinsesse. Men før han kan redde hende, må Sinbad overvinde en lang række af mytologiske uhyrer: den menneskeædende Kyklop, skeletter med krumsabler, en blodtørstig to-hovedet fugl kaldet Rokken og en ildsprudende drage.
7
Matsushima er på flugt, efterlyst for både flugten fra fængslet og mord. Hun bor nu hos en ung kvinde og hendes bror, men der går ikke lang tid, før Matsushima opdager, at ikke står ret til mellem de to søskende. Beast Stable er den tredje film i den ikoniske kvindefængselfilmserie Female Prisoner Scorpion, hvor Matsushimas overlevelsesinstinkter endnu en gang bliver sat på prøve.
7
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.
7
Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.
7
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
7
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
6.9
Takuma Tsurugi er karatemester og potentiel lejemorder, som sælger sine tjenester til højestbydende. Men da han får nys om et komplot mod datteren af en afdød oliemilliardær, ser han både penge og stor ære i at tilbyde hende sin beskyttelse. Da hun bliver kidnappet, gør han alt i sin magt for at redde hende.
6.9
György Szomjas’s first feature—made after a decade of short documentaries—is a bold attempt at a goulash western, set on the puszta, or Great Hungarian Plain, in 1837. Mixing Miklós Jancsó imagery and a Sergio Leone narrative, this ballad-like saga opens with image of a lone horseman on the empty plain, riding past a rude gallows. The film concerns the vengeful return of a legendary betyár (outlaw), briefly a hero to the local herdsmen who oppose the state building a canal across their grazing land. Although Szomjas works from ethnographic records and archival material, it is hardly surprising that this violent, primitivist film would be more popular with Hungarian audiences than critics. Replete with young guns, crooked sheriffs, tavern brawlers and hardbitten plug-uglies, this widescreen film is strikingly shot by Elémer Ragályi (cinematographer for most of Gyula Gazdag’s films)—a feast of loamy, autumnal colors.
6.9
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
6.9
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
6.9
A visionary work of Eastern Bloc science fiction, this mesmerizing Czechoslovak adaptation of a novel by Stanisław Lem melds Cold War ideology and utopian futurism into a tour de force of space-age modernism. In the year 2163, a band of astronauts embarks on a fifteen-year voyage deep into outer space, in hopes of discovering life in another galaxy. It’s a perilous journey during which they will confront the wreckage of the twentieth century, the chilling vastness of the cosmos, and their own mortality. A triumph of avant-garde production design that served as a model for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, IKARIE XB 1—long known internationally only through a mangled and dubbed reedit—is a singular sci-fi landmark that finds both terror and wonder in the unknown.
6.9
In this charming TV adaptation of the 1947 film classic, a kindly old gentleman (Ed Wynn) working as a Macy's department store Santa causes a commotion when he claims to be the real St. Nick. Forced to prove his sanity, he is taken to court where he must convince the judge and his friends that he actually is Santa Claus. The faith of one skeptical little girl (Susan Gordon) and a Christmas miracle are the keys to his true identity.
6.9
When an assistant D.A. must prosecute a brazen, seductive woman being tried for murder he uses his influence to get her aquitted. A top suspense thriller, based on a novel by Marty Holland.
6.9
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
6.6
En ung kvinde arver et gammelt hotel, og sætter sig for at restorere det. Snart begynder ulykkerne at hobe sig op, og det går snart op for hende at hun har fundet en port til ondskaben selv.
6.8
A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.
6.8
A voyeuristic, psychotic obscene telephone caller becomes obsessed with an attractive single mother.
6.8
When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.
6.8
Med kort varsel melder den amerikanske præsident sin ankomst til den lille by Suddenly. Byens sherif og nogle specialagenter sørger for sikkerheden, men tre koldblodige mordere er kommet dem i forkøbet. De har forskanset sig i et hus, taget dets beboere som gidsler og har fra husets stuevindue en perfekt mulighed for at skyde præsidenten, når han stiger ud af toget på stationen. Men så begynder en nervekrig mellem gidslerne og attentatmændene.
6.8
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
