Tag: FHD
March 2, 2020 / Fantasy

YASHA-GA-IKE (1979) AKA DEMON POND

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In the 1930s, a schoolteacher named Gakuen, while searching for his missing friend Akira, comes upon a mysterious, drought-stricken village beside a pond. After asking for food from a beautiful young woman named Yuri, Gakuen discovers that she is married to Akira, who is also the keeper of the village bell. Unless it is struck three times a day, a spirit that dwells in the pond, the Dragon Princess, will flood the town and kill all its inhabitants. When the Dragon Princess receives an offer of marriage from a prince, she offers to leave the pond in exchange for a human sacrifice, and Yuri is chosen as the victim.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">YASHA-GA-IKE (1979)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA DEMON POND</span>
February 29, 2020 / Comedy

GETTING STRAIGHT (1970)

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Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he’s back studying for his master’s, he’s trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry’s girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.

WATCH HEREGETTING STRAIGHT (1970)
February 24, 2020 / Arthouse

LA PALOMA (1974)

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Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband’s love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband’s old school friend. Adaptation from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, “The Lady of the Camellias”.

WATCH HERELA PALOMA (1974)
February 11, 2020 / Mystery

KOMISARIO PALMUN EREHDYS (1960) AKA INSPECTOR PALMU'S ERROR

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Transcending its genre trappings, the first of Matti Kassila’s adaptations of Mika Waltari’s detective novels was voted the greatest Finnish film of all time in a 2012 critics’ poll. After a crime-themed party, a wealthy playboy is found dead in his pool—initially deemed a misadventure, until Inspector Palmu begins to suspect foul play. A stylish, suspenseful thriller marked by caustic humor and a memorable jazz-tinged score.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">KOMISARIO PALMUN EREHDYS (1960)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA INSPECTOR PALMU'S ERROR</span>
January 1, 2020 / Drama

TO EACH HIS OWN (1946)

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During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

WATCH HERETO EACH HIS OWN (1946)
December 19, 2019 / Thriller

BELTENEBROS (1991) AKA PRINCE OF SHADOWS

Captain Darman is a communist party hitman now living peacefully in exile in England where he runs a bookshop in Brighton. That is until a visitor gives him a coded message summoning him back to Spain where he’s instructed to execute a traitor. As he prepares for the hit he starts to doubt the guilt of his target as it bears similarities to a previous hit which he now thinks was innocent.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">BELTENEBROS (1991)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA PRINCE OF SHADOWS</span>
November 18, 2019 / Experimental

NUESTRA SEÑORA DE PARIS (1982) ‎AKA OUR LADY OF PARIS

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An incestuous portrait of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral that reveals the feminine nature of this monument. Notre-Dame Cathedral is the support of an ecstatic vision: the convulsions of the camera and the frenzy of the editing, accompanied by loops of liturgical and noisy music, dematerialize the monument, transforming it into flashes of colour, lines and fleeting forms.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">NUESTRA SEÑORA DE PARIS (1982)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">‎AKA OUR LADY OF PARIS</span>
November 11, 2019 / Drama

FUCKING ÅMÅL (1998) AKA SHOW ME LOVE

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Teens Elin and Agnes are schoolmates. Elin is upbeat and popular, while Agnes is morose and friendless. And both girls are very frustrated with life. Elin dreams of fleeing their dull Swedish town. Agnes dreams of Elin. Though Agnes has never acted on her feelings, it’s widely rumored she’s a lesbian. But when Elin kisses Agnes on a cruel dare, it leads to an apology, a growing closeness between the girls and a plan to solve the problems of both.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">FUCKING ÅMÅL (1998)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA SHOW ME LOVE</span>