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
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
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
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Ten) has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-Up is his most... more
Mondo Macabro presents SPECIAL SILENCERS - A legendary Indonesian cult film with jaw dropping real-time action and stunt work. |SPECIAL SILENCERS is a legendary entry into the Indonesian "cult film"... more
In late '30s Britain, Martha Hanbury (Stefanie Martini) discovered that her semi-estranged, brilliant engineer sister Thomasina (Emma Appleton) created a machine that could receive radio and TV... 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
Macabre, grotesque, and aggressively bizarre, this cult hit from writer/director Nikos Nikolaidis tells the story of a detective who, while searching for his lost love, comes upon an isolated country... more
Young Ida (Rakel Lenora Flottum) was unhappy with how her folks put her needs behind those of her autistic sister Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad), as well as the sterile apartment complex they'd just... more
Engaging and surreal, this feminist farce from Czech New Wave director Vera Chytilová details the adventures of two young women-both named Marie (Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová)-who thumb their noses... more
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... more
The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly... 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
Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova, Jana Stehnova, Milos Vognic. In 1930s Prague, a crematorium manager, who believes that cremation after death relieves earthly suffering, is recruited by the... more
Situated in an Amsterdam brothel, two whores rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile one of their customers, a serial killer, kidnaps a housewife. This portrait of sexual power is the second film... more
Having met in Dakar and fallen deeply in love, cycle-riding cowherd Mory (Magaye Niang) and university student Anta (Myriam Niang) dreamed of fleeing Senegal and starting afresh in Paris. As the... more
A generation after she fled her rural hometown in the wake of her sister's accidental death, nurse Sarlota (Natalia Germani) returned to claim her mother's bequest-and found the family home burnt... more
Cult Epics presents the Marleen Gorris Trilogy, three controversial and thought provoking films, from the director of the Oscar winning film "Antonio's Line." QUESTION OF SILENCE Three Women,... 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
Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director's turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on... more
Four-disc set includes: The Round-Up (1966)Hungary, the late 19th century: In a prison camp still holding dissidents from the failed 1848 revolution, the staff sought to determine the truth of the... more