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Ladyhawke (1985)
Ladyhawke
other title: Ladyhawke og lommetyven / A Mulher Falcão …
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Zerograd (1988)
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Karen Shakhnazarov actor: Leonid Filatov / Oleg Basilashvili …
other title: Città Zero / Ville Zéro …
Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
The Mighty Peking Man (1977)
猩猩王
Ho Meng-Hua actor: Evelyne Kraft / Danny Lee Sau-Yin …
other title: Il gigante dell'Himalaya / Der Koloss von Konga …
Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.
The Secret Agent (2025)
O Agente Secreto
★ 8.0 35 ratings
Kleber Mendonça Filho actor: Wagner Moura / Carlos Francisco …
other title: L'agente segreto / O Agente Secreto …
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil’s repressive military regime.
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
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Paul Morrissey actor: Joe Dallesandro / Udo Kier …
other title: Il mostro è in tavola... barone Frankenstein / Frankenstein …
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.
Absolute Beginners (1986)
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Julien Temple actor: Eddie O'Connell / Patsy Kensit …
other title: Principiantes / Absolute Beginners – Junge Helden …
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Pedicab Driver (1989)
群龍戲鳳
other title: 群龍戲鳳 / Conductor de bicitaxi
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
蛇形刁手
other title: Il serpente all'ombra dell'aquila / Die Schlange im Schatten des Adlers …
Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.
To watch Nov. 23, 2025
King Boxer (1972)
天下第一拳
other title: 天下第一拳 / Cinque dita di violenza …
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.
The Screaming Tiger (1973)
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other title: Wang Yu - Stärker als tausend Kamikaze / Mano de hacha (El hacha del dragón) …
Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.
Security (2017)
Security
Alain Desrochers actor: Antonio Banderas / Ben Kingsley …
other title: Assalto ao Shopping
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
日本の夜と霧
★ 7.6 5 ratings
Nagisa Ōshima actor: Miyuki Kuwano / Fumio Watanabe …
other title: Notte e nebbia in Giappone / Nacht und Nebel über Japan …
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
To watch Nov. 22, 2025
"A film about the failure of left-wing anti-imperialists. '16 years later, nothing much had changed,' to quote a more recent one on the same theme... Highly theatrical and innovative." 4/5
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Japan 1960s Drama