Sisyphus
The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken…
Impulse
A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her…
Help Me… I’m Possessed
A mad doctor runs a sanitarium in the desert, where his hunchbacked servant whips women who are chained in the basement and cuts the legs off bodies so they’ll fit…
Dirty O’Neil
A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town…until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Madeline, Study of a Nightmare
A young woman is tormented by nightmares of her miscarriage. She becomes unfaithful to her husband and meets various lovers. Eventually, reality begins to unfurl around her.
Flower & Snake
Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult…
The Girl in Room 2A
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult’s next victim.
Le Secret
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that…
Nightmare Honeymoon
Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists.
Barn of the Naked Dead
Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing…
Visit to a Chief’s Son
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Electra, My Love
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra’s mother to kill him.
Julia
A young woman discovers that there’s more to do than ski when in the Swiss Alps.
Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks,…
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a…
Snakes
S*P*Y*S
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
A Touch of the Poet
Cornelius “Con” Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during…
Love at the Top
Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps…
TNT Jackson
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.
The Phantom of Hollywood
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its backlot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors….
Waiting for Fidel
This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro’s Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland…
Lancelot of the Lake
Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between…
Island of Lost Souls
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez’s best-selling novel, which relates the author’s 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man…
Black Eye
An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.
Le hasard et la violence
A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate…
Da tie nu
A group of thiefs takes over a village. The main character is the blacksmith of the village. He has a criminal record as a thief but has served his time…
The Secret Diary of Amarcord
A tongue-in-cheek documentary that goes “behind the scenes” during the production of Federico Fellini’s film AMARCORD (1973).
How to Seduce a Virgin
Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year’s treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and…
A Knife for the Ladies
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town’s…
Beyond Erotica
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions. When he ‘tames’ the daughter of the mansion supervisor and marries her,…
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Cosa Nostra Asia
An American agent is on the trail of Asian drug barons.
Lost in the Stars
Musical from the American Film Theatre series, based on the play Cry The Beloved Country.
Rebellion in Patagonia
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant…
The Second Coming of Eva
Her teenage hormones raging, Eva is obsessed with sex. Her prudish family sends her to an all-girls’ boarding school to receive proper moral guidance and forget her sexual obsessions.
Can You Keep It Up for a Week?
Blundering idiot is set an ultimatum by his girlfriend. Keep a job for a week or she leaves him. Only innuendo and comedy pratfalls can stop him. No man was…