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ROCKERS

ROCKERS is a reggae music movie that tells the story of some Jamaican musicians who take on the ‘mafia types’ in the industry. Starring Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace and Richard ‘DirtyHarry’ Hall, with appearances by iconic artists like Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs and more.…

Night on Earth | Helsinki Taxi Ride |

Driver Mika responds to a call from three drunken friends, one of whom is so drunk that he has fallen asleep. The other two are constantly arguing with each other and with Mika. They tell him why their friend is so drunk. He lost his job and car that day, his wife told him she wants to divorce him and his sixteen-year-old daughter turned out to be pregnant.

Night on Earth is a 1991 art comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.…

Night On Earth (1991) – Rome Story

Rome story with the wonderful and funny Italian actor, Roberto Benigni. An older priest in ill health is picked up by an eccentric taxi driver. Along the way he begins to confess his sins. He tells successively and in detail how he had sex with a pumpkin, a sheep and his brother’s wife. The priest is shocked and dies of a heart attack.…

Night on Earth (Paris)

jim jarmush’s film from 1991 that depicts the lives of cab divers in 5 different cities at a given time on one night. In this episode an Ivorian driver drives two exuberant Cameroonian diplomats to their destination. They joke about the driver, who gets more and more angry about it, eventually puts his customers out of the car. His next customer is a blind woman. He would like to know what it is like to be blind, but their cultural differences and differences in life experience make it difficult for her to answer the questions.…

The Cherry Orchard (1990) |

A student drama group are preparing for their school’s annual performance of the Russian play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. The whole story takes place during the final two hours of preparation leading up to the performance. However, the play is in danger of being cancelled due to the inappropriate actions of one of the students while outside the school grounds. The play is an important rite-of-passage for the students and a tradition that connects the past with the present, through the spirit of the cherry blossom.…

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming (2008) |

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming (2008) is a remake/reworking of “The Cherry Orchard” (1990). While exploring the old schoolhouse within the grounds of her new school, Momo stumbles upon a room full of props and stage instructions for the Russian play The Cherry Orchard. The school’s tradition of presenting an annual performance of the play has long been banned (due to an incident in the past). Momo decides to form a drama group in secret and stage a new production.…

Jasmine Women (English Subtitles)

Jasmine Women is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Hou Yong. The film is an adaptation of Su Tong’s novel Women’s Life. It portrays the emotionally troubled lives of 4 generations of Shanghai women between the 1930s and 1980s. The film was well received by critics and was praised for its use of color and the performances of Zhang Ziyi and Joan Chen, who both portrayed multiple characters. The film is divided into three chapters: “grandmother, mother, and daughter”; respectively the story of Mo, Li and Hua.…

La Ilusion Viaja En Tranvia Eng Subtitles

Illusion travels by streetcar is a 1954 Mexican film written by Luis Alcoriza and directed by Luis Buñuel. The movie tells the story of two Mexican tram drivers, Juan Godínez (Carlos Navarro) and Tarrajas (Fernando Soto), who are devastated when they learn that their favorite tram, number 133, is scheduled to be decommissioned. In a moment of revelry, fueled by heavy drinking, the two workers decide to take the tram out for a joyride, dubbed “one last spin” through Mexico City.…

Romeo and Juliet’s Wedding

Brazilian Movie O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta (English Subtitles)

The “Romeo and Juliet’s Wedding” addresses the Shakespearean theme of the impossible love between two young people, children of rival families. Instead of Verona, its characters live in São Paulo and the rivalry here arises in football. She is a Palmeiras fan and her father, the club’s director, does not allow his daughter to date someone who supports another team. Romeo, a huge Corinthians fan, meets Juliet and try his best to win over her beauty and her family.…

The Nun and the Devil

Original Title: Le monache di Sant’Arcangelo Starring: Anne Heywood, Luc Merenda, Ornella Muti Director: Domenico Paolella After the death of the mother superior in the convent of Sant’Arcangelo di Baiano, a power struggle rages on, as one nun, who comes from a powerful family, is willing to do anything to become the new abbess.…

La Moglie Più Bella (The Most Beautiful Wife)

In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who’s his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito’s eye settles on Francesca, only 15, but lovely and self-possessed. Among her virtues are high self worth and forthright speech, so although she falls in love with Vito, she won’t bow down to him. Believing he’s losing face, he has his boys kidnap her and he rapes her.…

Forbidden Passion (La segretaria)

Sex kitten Ornella Muti stars in this lost title from the seventies. A high positioned engineer, Francesco, despite the fact that he’s married with children, has an affair with his secretary, Manuela. When she tries to break up, Francesco blackmails her, threatening to fire her and to stop helping her family. In the meantime, Manuela is falling in love with another man, a young journalist.…

The Unholy Four (1954) | Film Noir

Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.

Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt | Mystery, Film Noir…

The Blue Gardenia (1953) [Film Noir]

The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang from a screenplay by Charles Hoffman. It is based on the novella The Gardenia by Vera Caspary.The film stars Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, and Ann Sothern. The Blue Gardenia – a cynical take on press coverage of a sensational murder case (the Black Dahlia) – was the first installment of Lang’s “newspaper noir” film trio…

RAISE THE RED LANTERN |

China in the 1920’s. After her father’s death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master’s attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice.…

Psycho/s

A reimagining of Psycho, exploring similarity and difference. This unique film raises questions of authorship in an age of mashups and remixes. It records historical changes in filmmaking apparatus and modes of production. Due to the original source materials the technical quality of the film is low.

Presented at Glasgow Radical Film Network Festival 2016, CCA Glasgow 2018.…

Sabotage – Alfred Hitchcock (1936)

Saboteurs are causing havoc in London with a series of explosive terrorist attacks. Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka) is part of the group, but he maintains a cover as a kind movie theater owner. His wife (Sylvia Sidney) is beginning to suspect something, though, and so is Scotland Yard Detective Sgt. Ted Spencer (John Loder). What neither of them know, however, is that Verloc uses his wife’s little brother (Desmond Tester) to deliver the bombs in film canisters.…

The 39 Steps (1935) – Alfred Hitchcock

The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay (Oscar winner Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors—a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued—as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela (Madeline Carroll). Adapted from a novel by John Buchan, this classic wrong-man thriller from the Master of Suspense anticipates the director’s most famous works (especially North by Northwest), and remains one of his cleverest and most entertaining films.…

The Black Orchid | Sofia Loren

Classic Drama Film | Anthony Quinn | Sofia Loren After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Some suspect that Rose’s demand for a lavish lifestyle pushed her husband to a life of crime, and they blame her for his death. Widower Frank Valente is attracted to Rose, and must convince her that real love exists. He must also deal with his own daughter, who has her own reasons for opposing his marriage to Rose.…

Brigitte Bardot | Manina (1952)

Manina, la fille sans voiles aka The girl in the bikini (1952) Gérard Morère, a 25-year-old Parisian student, learns that the wreck of a Phoenician ship, sunk off the coast of Corsica, contains a treasure, lost by Trolius after the Peloponnesian War. He thinks he knows its location, thanks to the discovery he made of a fragment of an amphora1, five years earlier, during a scuba dive near the island of Lavezzi.…