The Love Goddesses (1965) - Documentary

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses’ portrayal of sex from the silent-movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie “True Heart Susie,” starring Lillian Gish, to “Love Me Tonight” (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy) and to Elizabeth Taylor in “A Place in the Sun” (1951), plus many, many more.

Director: Saul J. Turell.

Writers: Graeme Ferguson, Saul J. Turell.

Stars: Loretta Andrews (archive footage), Agnes Ayres (archive footage), Theda Bara (archive footage), Brigitte Bardot (archive footage), Richard Barthelmess (archive footage), Billy Barty (archive footage), Ingrid Bergman (archive footage), Clara Bow (archive footage), Clive Brook (archive footage), Louise Brooks (archive footage), Horst Buchholz (archive footage), Maurice Chevalier (archive footage), Montgomery Clift (archive footage), Claudette Colbert (archive footage), Donald Cook (archive footage), Gary Cooper (archive footage), Joan Crawford (archive footage), Virginia Dabney (archive footage), Marion Davies (archive footage), Bette Davis (archive footage), Lya De Putti (archive footage), Marlene Dietrich (archive footage), Mildred Dixon (archive footage), Ruth Eddings (archive footage), Anita Ekberg (archive footage), Norman Foster (archive footage), Clark Gable (archive footage), Greta Garbo (archive footage), Ava Gardner (archive footage), John Gilbert (archive footage), Lilian Gish (archive footage), Louise Glaum (archive footage), June Glory (archive footage), Betty Grable (archive footage), Cary Grant (archive footage), Peggy Graves (archive footage), Jean Harlow (archive footage), Laurence Harvey (archive footage), Sessue Hayakawa (archive footage), Rita Hayworth (archive footage), Brigitte Helm (archive footage), Audrey Hepburn (archive footage), Ann Hovey (archive footage), Emil Jannings (archive footage), Ruby Keeler (archive footage), Annette Kellerman (archive footage), Deborah Kerr (archive footage), Henry Kolker (archive footage), Adele Lacy (archive footage), Hedy Lamarr (archive footage), Dorothy Lamour (archive footage), Margaret Lindsay (archive footage), Gina Lollobrigida (archive footage), Carole Lombard (archive footage), Sophia Loren (archive footage), Myrna Loy (archive footage), Jeanette MacDonald (archive footage), Jayne Mansfield (archive footage), Mae Marsh (archive footage), Herbert Marshall (archive footage), Adolphe Menjou (archive footage), Ray Milland (archive footage), Hayley Mills (archive footage), Marilyn Monroe (archive footage), Mae Murray (archive footage), Nita Naldi (archive footage), Pola Negri (archive footage), Pluma Noisom (archive footage), Gregory Peck (archive footage), Dick Powell (archive footage), Esther Ralston (archive footage), Donna Mae Roberts (archive footage), Ginger Rogers (archive footage), Heather Sears (archive footage), Jayne Shadduck (archive footage), Simone Signoret (archive footage), Barbara Stanwyck (archive footage), Gloria Swanson (archive footage), Sylvia Syms (archive footage), Elizabeth Taylor (archive footage), Shirley Temple (archive footage), Gene Tierney (archive footage), Lana Turner (archive footage), Rudolph Valentino (archive footage), Fannie Ward (archive footage), Mae West (archive footage), Henry Wilcoxon (archive footage).

Composer: Percy Faith.

Subs: Optional English subtitles are available for this film, to enable them click on the subtitles icon (to the left of the cogweel icon), and they will be turned on.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10184032520870

The Last Days of Gomorra - Die letzten Tage von Gomorrha - (1974)

In a future ruled by a corporate monopoly, a machine capable of fulfilling every human desire transforms society and renders genuine relationships obsolete. As a marginalized young woman is absorbed into the system, she confronts a world increasingly defined by consumption, control, and isolation.

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms. 

Writer: Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Stars: Mascha Rabben, Matthias Fuchs, Ernst Jacobi, Consuela Neal, Peter Roggisch, Alfred Edel, Jörg Schleicher, Ulrich Radke, Dieter Borsche, Ellen Umlauf.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/15040781093542

Switching: Goodbye Me - Tenkôsei: Sayonara anata - (2007)

After his parent’s divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. Obayashi’s self-remake of Tenkôsei.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi. 

Writers: Fumio Ishimori, Wataru Kenmochi, Chûkon Minami, Tadashi Naitô, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Hisashi Yamanaka (novel).

Stars: Misako Renbutsu, Naoyuki Morita, Maika Hara, Hiroshi, Takuro Atsuki, Hiroshi Inuzuka, Wakaba Irie, Hikari Ishida, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûko Kotegawa, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Hiroyuki Nagato, Misa Shimizu, Jô Shishido, Tomorô Taguchi, Koto Takagi, Saki Terashima.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/14961673243302

I Are You, You am Me - Tenkôsei - (1982)

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi. 

Writer: Hisashi Yamanaka.

Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô, Sayuri Ishibashi, Wakaba Irie, Etsuko Shihomi.

W/ English subs.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/14976758123174

Strongman Ferdinand - Der Starke Ferdinand - (1976)

Ferdinand Rieche was a policeman, but found the legal constraints of that profession too stifling. He gets into the business of protecting manufacturing plants and outfits and trains his men like a private army expecting an invasion. After his excesses prove too much for his bosses, he is fired, and Ferdinand takes his strong opinions back into public life.

Director: Alexander Kluge.

Writers: Alexander Kluge (screenplay), Alexander Kluge (story “Ein Bolschewist des Kapitals”).

Stars: Heinz Schubert, Joachim Hackethal, Gert Guether Hoffmann, Vérénice Rudolph, Heinz Schimmelpfennig, Siegfried Wischnewski, Erich Kleiber, Daphne Wagner. AKA Strongman Ferdinand

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2608264317606

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician - Morte di um matematico napoletano - (1992)

Naples, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, university professor in pure mathematics, is a disillusioned and tormented man who lives the last days of his life. Grandson of Bakunin on his mother’s side, interned in a psychiatric hospital for his anti-fascist acts, abandoned by his wife, and now become estranged from his own Communist Party comrades and his University collaborators, he lives his life with disenchanted detachment until his last act, suicide.

Director: Mario Martone.

Writers: Mario Martone, Fabrizia Ramondino.

Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Carpentieri, Toni Servillo, Antonio Neiwiller, Licia Maglietta, Fulvia Carotenuto, Roberto De Francesco, Andrea Renzi, Alessandra D’Elia, Annalisa Foà, Lucio Amelio, Vera Lombardi, Lucio Allocca, Toni Bertorelli.

1992 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2607766047398

The Black Dossier - The Dossier Noir - (André Cayatte, 1955)

Jacques Arnaud arrives in a small town somewhere in the province. Soon a citizen reports to him that strangers have broken into his house where they stole a mysterious “black dossier”.

Director: André Cayatte

Stars: Antoine Balpêtré, Lea Padovani, Bernard Blier, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Marc Bory, Daniel Cauchy, Danièle Delorme, Paul Frankeur, Jacques Duby, Noël Roquevert, Gabrielle Fontan, Christian Fourcade, Henri Crémieux, René Génin, Lucien Nat, Sylvie, André Valmy, Edmond Ardisson.

1955 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2525883337382

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