Jacques Rivette – Va savoir (2001)
Quote:The first years of the new millenium have marked something of a rev...
Martin Ritt – Norma Rae (1979)
The story is based on Crystal Lee Sutton’s life as a textile worker in Roa...
Sadao Yamanaka – Ninjô kami fûsen aka Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
A poor, masterless Samurai who depends on the paper balloons his wife make...
It Had to Happen (1936) by Roy Del Ruth
It Had to Happen (1936)
A poor boy rises to power in politics. When the ban...
Carl-Gustav Nykvist – Kvinnorna på taket AKA The Women on the Roof (1989)
Stockholm, 1914. Having recently escaped Austria, Anna, an impetuous cosmo...
Louis Malle – Damage (1992)
Quote:A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son’s fia...
Peter Watkins – Aftenlandet AKA Evening Land (1977)
Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of those days. It op...
Oxide Chun Pang – Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale AKA One Take Only (2001)
Mak, a street urchin in Bangkok, dreams of being a tough gangster. He earn...
Kaneto Shindô – Yabu no naka no kuroneko aka Kuroneko aka Black Cat From The Grove (1968)
Playing on the legend of ghosts returning in the form of cats to seek veng...
Julie Dash – The Diary of an African Nun (1977)
Shannon Kelley wrote:
A nun in Uganda weighs the emptiness she finds in he...
Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Xi meng ren sheng AKA The Puppetmaster (1993)
In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling pup...
Alain Resnais – Vous n’avez encore rien vu AKA You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012)
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers toge...
Francesco Rosi – La tregua AKA The Truce (1997)
Primo Levi’s modern day odyssey from the concentration camp to his home in...