The Profession of Arms - Il mestiere delle armi - (Ermanno Olmi, 2001)

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De’ Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500. 

Director: Ermanno Olmi. 

Writer: Ermanno Olmi.

Stars: Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Rachkov, Fabio Giubbani, Sasa Vulicevic, Dessy Tenekedjieva, Sandra Ceccarelli, Franco Andreani, Kalin Arsov, Giancarlo Belelli, Bruno Bendoni, Silvio Cappellini, Vittorio Corcelli, Marco De Biagi, Alessandro Genovesi, Michael Lindner, Francesca Lonardelli, Paolo Magagna, Piergiorgio Maletti, Mauro Marani, Georgy Marino, Ilija Marshakov, Rocco Militano, Nikolaus Moras, Attilio Orlandini, Ralph Palka, Alessandro Pezzali, Thomas Rauser, Marco Sgarbi, Claudio Tombini, Ilaria Tedeschi, Aldo Toscano, Dmitar Vassilev, Michele Zattara, Dario Dedonato, Andrea Iacopo Di Antonio, Marcello Marano, Omero Antonutti.

2001 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

Subtitles in English

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7295784258214

The Death of Mario Ricci - La mort de Mario Ricci - (1983)

A middle-aged TV reporter goes to the inn of a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During this time, a local worker is killed in a road crash and the reporter becomes involved in uncovering the truth about his death.

Director: Claude Goretta. .

Writers: Claude Goretta, Georges Haldas.

Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Michel Dupuis, Michel Robin, Lucas Belvaux, Claudio Caramaschi, Roger Jendly, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Michel Cassagne, Michael Linz, Marblum Jequier, Jean-Claude Perrin, André Schmidt, Bernard Soufflet, Claude-Inga Barbey, François Berthet, Edmée Croset, Gérard Despierre, Neige Dolsky, Anne-Lise Fritsch, Michèle Gleizer, Alfredo Gnasso, Arthur Grosjean, Jean-Pierre Gos, Gilbert Isnard, Leontina Lechmann, Jean-Pierre Moutier, Gil Pidoux, Laurent Sandoz, Jean-Marc Stehlé.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/6883120384678

Man on the Roof - Mannen på taket - (1976)

A police officer is murdered with a bayonet while staying in hospital. The investigative team, lead by Martin Beck, soon discover that the man had frequently abused suspects as well as civilians but that any complaints had been ignored owing to the misguided loyalty of his colleagues. The volatile mind of the killer means that Beck has to resolve the case quickly before more people are hurt.

Director: Bo Widerberg.

Stars: Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Håkan Serner, Birgitta Valberg, Eva Remaeus, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg, Ingvar Hirdwall, Bellan Roos, Gus Dahlström, Harald Hamrell, Birgitta Valberg, Carl-Axel Heiknert, Torgny Anderberg, Folke Hjort, Gunnel Wadner. 

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2607482997414

I Went Down (1997)

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git’s girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He’s now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It’s a tougher assignment than it seems: Git’s a novice, Bunny’s prone to rash acts, Frank doesn’t want to be found (and once he’s found, he has no money), and maybe Tom’s planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there’s the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What’s a decent and stand-up lad to do?

Director: Paddy Breathnach.

Stars: Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot, Michael McElhatton, Brendan Gleeson, Joe Gallagher, Tony Doyle, Liam Regan, Kevin Hely, Eamonn Hunt, Frank O’Sullivan, Jason Byrne, Eamon A. Kelly, Peter Caffrey, Carly Baker, Carmel Callan, Margaret Callan, Denis Conway, Donal O’Kelly, Amelia Crowley, Conor McPherson, Rachel Brady, Anne Kent, Johnny Murphy, Don Wycherley, John Bergin.

No subtitles available through this link, but you can download the movie with English subs.

LINK: https://files.fm/f/6zf65t95ug

The Assault - De Aanslag - (1986)

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors house, but is moved by them to the house of the family Steenwijk. Because of this, his father, mother and brother are killed by the Germans, and their house is set to fire. During his life, Anton meets several people that tell him more about what really happened on the night of the assault.

Director: Fons Rademakers

Writers: Gerard Soeteman (scenario), Harry Mulisch (novel).

Stars: Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven, John Kraaykamp, Huub van der Lubbe, Elly Weller, Ina van der Molen, Frans Vorstman, Edda Barends, Casper de Boer, Wim de Haas, Hiske van der Linden, Piet de Wijn.

1987 Academy Awards – Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

1987 Golden Globe – Winner Best Foreign Language Film.

Subs: English.

Watch here: https://ok.ru/video/2610777492134

London Conspiracy (The Persuaders) - 1974

Highbrow Englishman, Lord Brett Sinclair and Bronx-born American fortune seeker, Danny Wilde seem an unlikely pair, but their friendship propels them on some wild and wacky adventures in Robert S. Baker’s LONDON CONSPIRACY.

Nice to watch the Persuaders again. The TV series theme was composed by John Barry.

Directors: David Greene, James Hill.

Stars: Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, Laurence Naismith, John Ronane, Andrew Keir, Tom Adams, Carmen Munroe, Clifton Jones, George Woodbridge, Tommy Godfrey, Arthur Brough, Robert Cawdron, Leon Greene, Michael Wynne, Talfryn Thomas.

Composer: Ken Thorne.

No Subs.

Watch here: https://ok.ru/video/10359859055270

Safety Club - Cran d’arrêt - (1970)

A doctor removed from the order for euthanasia is called by a man to help his son depressed since the suicide of his girlfriend. But in the handbag of the deceased, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor who decides to investigate the alleged suicide of the young woman.

Director: Yves Boisset. 

Writers: Giorgio Scerbanenco (novel “Vénus privée”) Antoine Blondin, Yves Boisset & Francis Cosne (adaptation), Antoine Blondin (dialogue).

Stars: Bruno Cremer, Renaud Verley, Marianne Comtell, Raffaella Carrà, Mario Adorf, Jean Martin, Rufus, Claudio Gora, Marina Berti, Roger Lumont, Agostina Belli, Vanna Brosio, Jean Mermet, Claudine Berg.

Subtitles: English.

Watch here: https://ok.ru/video/10370032208550

To Die in Madrid - Mourir à Madrid - (Fredeeric Rossif, 1963)

This documentary  brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Guernica, the defense of Madrid, the International Brigades, are some of the items comprised in this documentary.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Director

Frédéric Rossif

Writers

Madeleine Chapsal, Frédéric Rossif

Stars

Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon - Narrators.

Music by Maurice Jarre.

Subtitles in English.

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/2555340786342

Residence for Spies - Residencia para espías (Jesús Franco, 1966)

Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women’s training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an ennemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a number of the young women recruits.

Director: Jesús Franco. 

Writers: Jesús Franco (screenplay), Michael Loggan (based on a story by).

Stars: Eddie Constantine, Diana Lorys, Anita Höfer, Mary Paz Pondal, Otto Stern, Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, Dina Loy, Cris Huerta, Lola Gaos, Héctor Quiroga, Nora Romo, Antonio Jiménez Escribano, Pilar Vela, Gonzalo de Esquiroz, Tota Alba.

Subs: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3142443666086

Farewell to the Ark - Saraba hakobune (1984)

Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Terayama’s final and elaborate opus takes place on a remote Okinawan island, where a mythical time law rules and shapes memories, life and even death. Sutekichi and his cousin Su-e love each other, attracting the attention and insults of the superstitious inhabitants of an isolated village beyond time. When Sutekichi murders his rival Daisaku, the couple decides to flee from the village, but Sutekichi is haunted by Daisaku’s ghost and increasingly affected by the unforgiving course of time.

Director: Shûji Terayama.

Writers: Gabriel García Márquez (novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”), Rio Kishida, Shûji Terayama.

Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10073589746342

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Sinners of Paris - Rafles sur la ville (1958)

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary.

Director: Pierre Chenal. 

Writers: Paul Andréota (adaptation & dialogue), Pierre Chenal (adaptation), Jean Ferry (adaptation), Auguste Le Breton (novel).

Stars: Charles Vanel, Bella Darvi, Danik Patisson, Michel Piccoli, François Guerin, Mouloudji, Jean Brochard, Georges Vitray, Alfred Goulet, Albert Dinan, Georges Douking, Marcel Lupovici, Albert Rémy, Gina Manès, Daniel Mendaille, Jany Clair. 

Cinematographer: Marcel Grignon.

Composer: Michel Legrand.

Subtitles in English

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/2561394936486