The Mattei Affair - Il Caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi, 1972)

Portrait of Italian tycoon, Enrico Mattei, who headed a state-combined industrial concern for natural resources from the early post-war years and who died under mysterious circumstances in a plane crash at Milan airport in 1962.

Director: Francesco Rosi. 

Writers: Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Nerio Minuzzo, Tito Di Stefano.

Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen, Edda Ferronao, Accursio di Leo, Peter Baldwin, Renato Romano, Elio Jotta, Edda Ferronao, Luciano Colitti, Terenzio Cordova, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Camillo Milli, Aldo Barberito, Jean Rougeul.

Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis.

Composer: Piero Piccioni.

LINK with English Subs: https://ok.ru/video/5851727858342

Necropolis (1970)

Brocani conjures together all your favourite European cultural and historical myth figures in order to attack the centuries of ‘sublimation’ that have produced our cities and their inhabitants. The gang’s all here: Frankenstein’s monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa. The range is extraordinary, from stand-up Jewish comedy to a kind of flea-market expressionism. Brocani’s approach is contemplative rather than agitational, which confounds the impatient; Gavin Bryars’ lovely Terry Riley-esque score matches the ambience exactly.

Director: Franco Brocani.

Writer: Franco Brocani.

Stars: Nicoletta Machiavelli, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clémenti, Paul Jabara, Carmelo Bene, Bruno Corazzari, Paolo Graziosi, Louis Waldon, Viva.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7546309249702

The Fencing Master - El maestro de esgrima - (1992)

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before, he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins. 

It is set in 1868 Pre-revolution Spain , Madrid , about fall Queen Isabel II and return general Prim . There occurs a lot of anti-Borbon strikes and protests against Isabel II . On his return to Spain general Prim joined the opposition, heading revolts in Catalonia against generals Narvaez and O'Donnell. All his attempts failed until the death of Narvaez in April 1868, after which Queen Isabella fell more and more under the influence of the Jesuits, and became increasingly tyrannical, until at last even Serrano was exiled. In September 1868 General Serrano and General Prim returned, and Brigadier Topete, commanding the fleet, raised the standard of revolt at Cádiz 

A movie from Spain. Courtesy of Rarefilm

Subtitled in English.

Director: Pedro Olea. 

Stars: Assumpta Serna, Omero Antonutti, Joaquim de Almeida, José Luis López Vázquez, Miguel Rellán, Alberto Closas, Elisa Matilla, Ramón Goyanes, Juan Jesús Valverde, Francisco Vidal, Tomás Repila, Marcos Tizón, Miguel Ángel Salomón, Sonsoles Benedicto. 

LINK FOR THE MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/7904302795430

Objective 500 Million - Objectif: 500 millions - (1966)

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight.

Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer. 

Stars: Bruno Cremer, Marisa Mell, Jean-Claude Rolland, Etienne Bierry, Pierre Fromont, Jean-François Chauvel, Thomas Hong-Mai.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2528091835046

Death of Yazdgerd - Marg Yazdgerd - (1982)

Death of Yazdgerd, is a poetic and political work exploring the cruel and tragic dynamics of a class-based society. War is raging. King Yazdgerd’s body is discovered in a run-down mill in the Iranian desert. Charged with murder, the miller, his wife and his sickly daughter must tell their story to the commanders to escape torture and death. Who killed the King? Was Yazdgerd indeed the revered God-King, or a puny, immoral man caught in the destructive whirlwind of his times?

Director: Bahram Beizai.

Writer: Bahram Beizai.

Stars: Susan Taslimi, Mehdi Hashemi, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Amin Tarokh, Ali Reza Khamseh, Yasaman Arami, Karim Akbari Mobarakeh.

A movie from Iran.

Subtitled in English.

Video Link: https://ok.ru/video/2926677723814

The Brothers Karamazonv - Bratya Karamazovy - Parts 1, 2 and 3 (1969)

Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of the brothers is accused of killing his father, whom he did not commit. The brothers are unable to help him, and only a loving girl follows him to hard labour.

Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, (as Ivan Pyryev), Mikhail Ulyanov. AKA The Brothers Karamazov

Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel), Ivan Pyrev (as Ivan Pyryev).

Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Kirill Lavrov, Lionella Pyryeva, Andrey Myagkov, Mark Prudkin, Svetlana Korkoshko, Valentin Nikulin, Pavel Pavlenko, Andrei Abrikosov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Anatoliy Adoskin, Rada Volshaninova, Tamara Nosova, Nikita Podgorny, Ivan Lapikov, Varvara Popova, Yevdokiya Urusova, Stanislav Chekan, Aleksandra Danilova, Aleksandr Khvylya, Nikolai Ryzhov, Nikolai Prokopovich, Evgeniy Teterin, Mark Pertsovskiy, Lidiya Korneva, Sergei Kalinin, Vladimir Osenev.

1970 Nominee Oscar

Best Foreign Language Film - Soviet Union

Subtitled in English.

Video links:

Part One: https://ok.ru/video/363840235383

Part Two: https://ok.ru/video/3638402615974

Part Three: https://ok.ru/video/3638402812582

Tano da morire (To die for Tano) - 1997

Shot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried sisters and his daughter. But in truth, his death represents a kind of liberation for the women.

Directors: Roberta Torre, Vincenzo Navarra.

Writers: Enzo Paglino, Gianluca Sodaro, Roberta Torre.

Stars: Ciccio Guarino, Enzo Paglino, Mimma De Rosalia, Maria Aliota, Adele Aliotta, Annamaria Confalone, Vincenzo di Lorenzo, Lorenzo La Rosa, Giacomo D’Ignoto, Francesca Di Cesare, Filippo Teriaca, Eleonora Teriaca, Concetta Alfano, Maurizio Testa.

Subtitled in English.

Video Link: https://ok.ru/video/6803188812454

Captive of the Desert (La Captive du Desert) - 1990

Sandrine Bonnaire plays a European researcher who is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. They have no clear reason for holding her hostage, and after a considerable period of time (and an escape attempt by their captive), they simply let her go. The story is based on a similar situation that the director Raymond Depardon covered when he was a reporter.

Director: Raymond Depardon. 

Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Dobi Wachinké, Badei Barka, Atchi Wahi-Li, Daki Koré, Isai Koré, Mohamed Ixa, Brahim Barkaï, Hadji Azouma, Barkama Hadji, Sidi Hadji Maman.

Subtitles: English,

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VIDEO LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2521243716262

Angels of Sin (Les Anges du Péché) - Robert Bresson - 1943

Anne-Marie, a well–off young woman, decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help because she says she was innocent of the crime for which she was convicted. After being released from prison, Thérèse murders the man she feels is responsible for her imprisonment and comes to seek sanctuary from the law in the convent. Anne-Marie clashes with her sisters and elders over her zealousness to reform Thérèse, who manipulates and antagonizes her.

Director: Robert Bresson. 

Stars: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Yolande Laffon, Paula Dehelly, Mila Parély, Silvia Monfort, Louis Seigner, Gilberte Terbois, Georges Colin, Geneviève Morel, Christiane Barry, Jean Morel.

Subtitled in English.

Courtesy of Rarefilmm.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3901175237286

The Wolf at the Door (Oviri) (1986)

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.

Director: Henning Carlsen. 

Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Sofie Gråbøl, Valeri Glandut, Ghita Nørby, Merete Voldstedlund, Fanny Bastien, Jørgen Reenberg, Henrik Larsen, Jesper Bruun Rasmussen, Yves Barsacq, Thomas Antoni, Kristina Dubin, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Morten Grunwald.

1986 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Subtitles in English.

Link: https://ok.ru/video/2537591736998

The Green Years (Os Verdes Anos) - 1963

Julio, aged nineteen, has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives there in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the shop, he gets to know Ilda, a young housemaid and regular customer. Ilda is pretty, joyful and modern and Julio falls for her. The two young people, although very different from each other, embark on an idyll…

Director: Paulo Rocha.

Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado, Paulo Renato.

First film of Paulo Rocha, one of the founders of the new Portuguese cinema.

Awards:

Premio Cabeza de Palenque (Acapulco Film Festival, 1965)

Mention Honorable (Valldolid Film Festival, 1965).

Audio in Portuguese and Subs in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2525073705638

H2S (1969)

"H2S" was never released outside Italy. Rarely seen since its original Cinema release in 1968 this surreal futuristic comedy drama is directed by Roberto Faenza whose inspirations from his art college days are clearly displayed here. Student revolts in a futuristic scientific university see an unusual role for the American actor Lionel Stander,who had previously been cast as the barman in Sergio Leone's "Cera una volta il West"(1968) The story is a puzzling one- it begins in London,England where students are controlled by a dictatorship Government where sex is outlawed.The film was supposed to have been banned in Italy and destroyed,but do they really do that to films these days? Nonetheless,the set designs are truly stunning,especially the second half of the film where the runaway lovers end up living in the Italian mountains in a colourful 'funked-up' igloo! But the film is so slow and bemusing blending political statements with sci-fi which was to emerge as a popular genre in the US. The musical score by Ennio Morricone is superb.

Director: Roberto Faenza.

Stars: Lionel Stander, Denis Gilmore, Carole André, Giancarlo Cobelli, Paolo Poli, Franco Valobra, Alfred Thomas, Massimo Sarchielli.

Audio in Italian and subtitles in English.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2522546637478

The Man with the Lens - Der Mann mit dem Objektiv - (1961)

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the “Beautiful future” professed by VEB (“Volkseigener Betrieb” – “State Owned Holdings”).

Director: Frank Vogel. 

Writer: Paul Wiens.

Stars: Rolf Ludwig, Christine Laszar, Helga Labudda, Micaela Kreißler, Otto Stark, Erik S. Klein, Erich Franz.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/3890599103142

La chair de l’orchidée - The Flesh of the Orchid - (1975)

A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.

Director: Patrice Chéreau. 

Writers: James Hadley Chase (based on the novel by), Jean-Claude Carrière & Patrice Chéreau (adaptation).

Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Alida Valli, Hans Christian Blech, François Simon, Hugues Quester, Rémy Germain, Roland Bertin, Marcel Imhoff, Pierre Asso, Marie-Louise Ebeli, Ève Francis, Luigi Zerbinati, Jenny Clève.

Subs: English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2999643474598

His Most Serene Highness - Su alteza serenísima - (2001)

From legendary director Felipe Cazals, a historical drama of the last days of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Despite defeating the Texans of the Alamo, he lost the war of Texas Independence and gave away half of Mexico (including Texas, New Mexico, and Oregon). Exiled from his homeland, he is allowed to return only a few years before dying in 1976. At the end of his life, he still clings to illusions of regaining his former glory and popularity.

Director: Felipe Cazals. 

Writer: Felipe Cazals.

Stars: Alejandro Parodi, Ana Bertha Espín, Rodolfo Arias, Pedro Armendariz, Blanca Guerra, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Jose Carlos Ruiz, Salvador Sanchez, Isaura Espinosa, Carmen Delgado, Ana Maria Fernández, Guillermina Fernández, Alma Oropeza, Abel Woolrich, Juan de la Loza, Jorge Hernández.

Composer: Piero Piccioni.

Subtitled in English.

MOVIE LINK; https://ok.ru/video/5660057733798

La femme défendue - The Forbidden Woman (1997)

Official selection Cannes 1997. Nomination at the CESAR and Prix Romy Schneider for Isabelle Carré. 100% of joy. François is 39, married and a child. Lives confortably. Muriel is 22, single and free. They meet casually and the man tries to seduce the girl. What happens now is common place in an adultery. But the way Philippe Harel presents the story is unique. The dialogue and, most of all, the beautiful face of Isabelle casts a spell over us, the viewers. As a matter of fact we don't see anybody else than the young girl, not even her lover. All which is out of Muriel's feelings is left aside and, in his way to explore the intimacy of the human being, without unkindness nor complaisance, Harel reinvented the strategy of seduction, like it used to be 200 years ago, but introducing the erotism which was then concealed

Director

Philippe Harel

Stars

Isabelle Carré, Philippe Harel, Nathalie Conio.

Subtitles: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7090048993958

Poussière d’empire - Dust of Empire (1983)

In 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic word as she goes. A mute child leads her to a remote village. Installed at a carpenter, the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their propaganda. At nightfall, in a storm, a group of maquisards surrounded the house. Fortunately, the carpenter is a respected man. The attackers withdraw. After a sudden rise in water, the mute child loses the precious message that had been entrusted to him by a wounded maquis...

Director: Lâm Lê.

Stars: Dominique Sanda, Jean-François Stévenin, Thang-Long, Yann Roussel, Anne Canovas, Lan Hoang, Myriam Mézières, Tra Huu Phuc.

Subtitled in English.

Link: https://ok.ru/video/7289392532134

To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream - Morir... dormir... tal vez soñar (1976)

An old empty mansion. The ghost of a man who lived there returns to recall the crucial moments of a lifetime. Faced with the proximity of death, the experiences of his past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives crucial moments of his life and his family, from 1915 to 1966, almost always linked to the names of several women. Memories that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.

Director: Manuel Mur Oti.

Writers: José Mallorquí (story), Manuel Mur Oti.

Stars: Rafael Arcos, Israel Morales, Ernesto Martín, María Rubio, Raquel Rodrigo, Pedro Díez del Corral, Jane Seymour, Alfredo Garrido, Irene Losada, Diana Salcedo, Esther Santana, Conchita Perez, Alfonso del Real, Nyree Dawn Porter, Rosa de Alba, Ana Gasber, Manuel Rodal.

Subtitled in English.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7293412575910

Wernher von Braun- I aim at the Stars (1960)

The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun helped pioneer man’s adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.

Director: J. Lee Thompson.

Writers: H.W. John, Udo Wolter & George Froeschel (story), Jay Dratler (screenplay).

Stars: Curd Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala, James Daly, Adrian Hoven, Gerard Heinz, Karel Stepanek, Peter Capell, Hayden Rorke, Austin Willis, Alan Gifford, Helmo Kindermann, Lea Seidl, John Crawford.

Cinematographer: Wilkie Cooper.

Music by: Laurie Johnson.

SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7429973936806

On Earth as it is in Heaven - Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra - (1995)

Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.

Director: José Luis Cuerda. 

Writer: José Luis Cuerda.

Stars: Francisco Rabal, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jesús Bonilla, Luis Ciges, Agustín González, Mónica Molina, Mary Carmen Ramírez, Juan Luis Galiardo, Enrique San Francisco, Gabino Diego, Chus Lampreave, Achero Mañas, Antonio Gamero, Isabel Serrano, Alicia Sánchez, Manuel Alexandre, Saturnino García, Luis Perezagua, Pepín Salvador, Luis Hostalot, Rosario Santesmases, José María Sacristán, Jorge Bosso, María Galiana, María Elena Flores, José Carlos Gómez, Maria Luisa Veira, Liberto Rabal, José María Lucena, Javier Manrique, Fernando Vivanco, Concha Leza, Roberto Cairo, Enrique Valero, Álex Angulo, Olaya Aguirre, Lucio Romero, Ana Isabel Mateo, Francisco Sanz, Marga González, Rosa Morales, José María Caceres, Daniel Alonso.

Subtitled in Inglish

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/6845953477286

Blood - O Sangue - (1989)

Blood (a movie from Portugal) tells the story of seventeen-year-old Vincente and his ten-year-old brother, Nino, who must face the departure of their abusive father and its aftermath. With the aid of Vicente’s girlfriend, Clara, the trio attempts to pick up the pieces of their fractured family life while confronting an unwelcomed uncle and mobsters who try to collect debt that their father left behind.

Filmed in exquisite black and white, O Sangue marks a significant step in the career of Costa, who would eventually become one of Portugal’s most celebrated artists. While O Sangue is a first glimpse of his masterful use of chiaroscuro lighting, Costa has veered away from his debut’s formalist aesthetics in his subsequent films, which concentrate on his hypnotic portraits of real-life characters in the lower depths of Portuguese society.

Director: Pedro Costa.

Writer: Pedro Costa.

Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Canto e Castro, Isabel de Castro, Henrique Viana, Luis Santos, Manuel João Vieira, Sara Breia, José Eduardo, Ana Otero, Pedro Miguel, Miguel Fernandes.

SUBTITLES: ENGLISH

VIDEO LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7503277656742

The Fortress (Az eröd) - 1979

This Hungarian black comedy is set at a very special fantasy park that allows visitors to play organized war games. It proves to be a very popular attraction amongst the bored tourists until they suddenly realize that they are shooting real bullets. The authorities quickly close the park, but then recruits its director to begin using it to train real troops.

Director: Miklós Szinetár. 

Writers: Gyula Hernádi (novel), Miklós Szinetár (screenplay).

Stars: Bella Tanay, Sándor Oszter, József Madaras, Ádám Rajhona, Ferenc Bács, Gyula Benkő, Péter Benkő , Georgiana Tarjan, Nóra Németh, Judit Hernádi, Péter Haumann, Endre Harkányi, Péter Trokán.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3669661387430

Sial IV - (1969) - French Mini series in 4 parts

Sial IV is a French TV miniseries by Greek filmmaker and writer Adonis Kyrou, adapted from the speculative fiction novel Deadly Image (AKA The Uncertain Midnight) by British author Edmund Cooper. It tells the story of Denis Lange, a fallout shelter engineer who is accidentally trapped in suspended animation as war breaks out in 1970, only to awaken in the early 2100s in Sial IV, an underground city in which humankind lives a life of leisure, having discharged all responsibility to androids. Assigned the android Diana as his personal assistant, Denis ventures through this unsettling idyll, eventually finding a small but tenacious group of resistors who seek to uncover the truth about the compound and its ruler, the mysterious Machiavelli.

Director: Adonis Kyrou.

Writers: Edmund Cooper (novel), Claude Delarue, Adonis Kyrou.

Stars: Henri Gilabert, Claude Cerval, Marcel Dalio, Lise Lachenal, Jacques Verlier, François Chodat, Simone Bach, Jacqueline Damien, Guy Fox, Anna Salberg, Violaine Lachenal, Sacha Solnia, Marcel Vidal, Roger Gillioz, Jean Mars, Serge Nicoloff, Jean Vigny, Georges Wod.

Music by: François de Roubaix.

Subtitles: English

Link for the Videos:

Part 1 - https://ok.ru/video/4621199346342

Part 2 - https://ok.ru/video/4621200525990

Part 3 - https://ok.ru/video/4621200984742

Part 4 - https://ok.ru/video/4621223529126

My YouTube channels temporarily frozen

I have three YouTube channels:

• Revista Cine TV

• Revista Cine TV - Rosebud

• Revista Cine TV - Troy

The reason for three channels is that I am always trying to escape from getting my channels removed by YouTube. After three strikes, the channel is completed deleted by them. All the movies are gone with it.

The system used by YouTube to check copyright is very weak and unreliable to say the least.

Some movies that I publish are considered No Copyright Issues, but later, when the copyright owner watches his film on the platform, sends a message to YouTube to remove the film. A strike follows.

Sometimes the film published is copyrighted but the owner allows the movie to be on YouTube.  Later, the movie is removed by request of the holder of the rights.

This is not a fair play being practiced by YouTube. If you complain you get zero response.

Therefore, I have to live with this. It is like the Nazis with the French Resistance in Paris at the time of the French Occupation.

My channels are temporarily frozen because they are on ‘phase 2’, that is, with two strikes. They will be unfrozen by mid or end of July 2024 when the first or second strike expires. Be patient and follow this blog.

The Black Dossier - Le dossier noir (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.

Subtitled in English.

Video Link: https://ok.ru/video/2525883337382

Night Falls - La noche avanza (1952)

Marcos is a professional jai alai player undefeated on the court in 26 matches. The super confident Marcos has acquired a Trumpian disdain for weak losers, including a fellow player who suffers a fracture as a result of Marcos’ carelessness. When he’s not dominating his opponents, he’s trying to balance his relationships with several women, including recently widowed old flame Sara, nightclub thrush Lucrecia, and mother-to-be Rebeca. Marcos promises to wed Rebeca without telling her he’s about to leave Mexico permanently, setting in motion a plot by Rebeca’s brother Armando to blackmail the first class heel while also getting out of his debt to gambler Marcial.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón. 

Writers: Jesús Cárdenas, Roberto Gavaldón, José Revueltas, Luis Spota (story).

Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Anita Blanch, Rebeca Iturbide, Eva Martino, José María Linares-Rivas, Julio Villarreal, Armando Soto La Marina, Carlos Múzquiz, Wolf Ruvinskis, Francisco Jambrina, Juan García, Roberto Y. Palacios, Margarito Luna, Luis Mussot, José Torvay.

Subtitled in English.

Link: https://ok.ru/video/3683348908710

Un soir, un train (1968)

A TRIBUTE TO ANOUK AIMÉE.

Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say…

Director: André Delvaux.

Stars: Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, Adriana Bogdan, François Beukelaers, Hector Camerlynck, Michael Gough, Senne Rouffaer, Domien De Gruyter, Jan Peré, Nicole Debonne, Wilfried Coppens, Greta Van Langhendonck, Patrick Conrad, Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, Denise Zimmerman.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2544476162726

The Profession of Arms - Il mestiere delle armi - (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.

Subtitled in English.

A movie from Rarefilmm.

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

One Way or Another - Todo modo - (Elio Petri, 1976)

A metaphysical mystery based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia, Todo modo is the most curious and puzzling of Petri’s films and offers a not-so-veiled critique of Christian Democratic political power. Italy’s most successful politicians go on a monastic retreat at the convent of Don Gaetano to contemplate their notable careers and secretly devise a new power structure. After a series of mysterious crimes, the consortium becomes divided and, ultimately, depleted. The film’s unabashed leftist politics are given vivid articulation through the work of noted production designer Dante Ferretti.

Director: Elio Petri. 

Writers: Leonardo Sciascia (novel), Elio Petri (screenplay), Berto Pelosso (collaborator).

Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Ciccio Ingrassia, Tino Scotti, Franco Citti, Renato Salvatori, Cesare Gelli, Giancarlo Badessi, Mario Bartoli, Adriano Amidei Migliano, Michel Piccoli, Guerrino Crivello, Nito Costa, Marcello Di Falco, Aldo Farina, Giulio Donnini, Giuseppe Leone, Renato Malavasi, Riccardo Mangano, Piero Mazzinghi, Lino Murolo, Piero Nuti, Loris Pereira Lopez, Riccardo Satta, Lugi Uzzo, Luigi Zerbinati.

Composer: Ennio Morricone.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/5479929154214

Gibel Otrara - The Fall of Otrar - (1991)

A movie from Kazakhstan. Subtitled in English

Four arduous years in the making, Ardak Amirkulov’s 1990 historical epic about the intrigue and turmoil preceding Genghis Khan’s systematic destruction of the lost East Asian civilization of Otrar is a one-of-a-kind experience. Amirkulov’s film, shot in sepia-toned black-and-white, is at once hallucinatory, visually resplendent, and ferociously energetic, packed with eye-catching (and gouging) detail and B-movie fervor, and traversing an endless variety of parched, epic landscapes and ornate palaces.

Director: Ardak Amirkulov.

Writers: Aleksey German, Svetlana Karmalita,

Stars: Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Abdurashid Makhsudov, Zaur Zekhov, Kasym Zhakibayev.

VIDEO LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3382716467878

Escalation (1968)

1968, London. Luca, the son of an Italian rich owner, is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first forced to return to Italy, then he is kidnapped by his father’s collaborators, jailed into a sanitarium, put through the electroshock and other torments. Then, when ‘normalized’ Luca marries a woman who in reality is a psychologist paid by his father to brainwash him and turn him into a perfect businessman.

Director: Roberto Faenza.

Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Claudine Auger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Didi Perego, Leopoldo Trieste. 

Subtitled in English.

Music by Ennio Morricone.

Courtesy of Rarefilmm

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2582630238886

Baseynat - The Swimming Pool - (1977)

Bella, a sensitive and clever girl, experiences her first disillusionment at the school graduation ball. The following morning, she meets Apostol, a middle-aged man, architect, and former participant in the anti-fascist struggle. He reveals to her his views on life. He introduces her to Bufo, a younger person, and a failure as an actor although possessing “the talent of a friend”. Thus the trio is formed. Bella marries Bufo, though Apostol remains the man and person whom she would have desired to meet in her lifetime.

Director: Binka Zhelyazkova. 

Writer: Hristo Ganev.

Stars: Kosta Tsonev, Yanina Kasheva, Kliment Denchev, Tzvetana Maneva, Petar Slabakov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Vassil Mihajlov, Stefan Stefanov, Olga Kircheva, Velika Kolarova, Zorka Georgieva, Vihar Stoychev, Kameliya Kostadinova, Elena Kuneva, Stefan Delchev, Milka Popangelova, Georgi Kishkilov, Tacho Tachev, Dimitar Tzonev, Nikola Chipriyanov, Dimitar Keranov, Stela Arnaudova, Lyuba Petrova, Kina Mutafova, Spas Spasov, Pavel Todorov, Mihail Slavov.

English Subtitles.

Video Link: https://ok.ru/video/6499018148518

Xích lô (1995) aka Cyclo - A Vietnamese film

A “cyclo” is a bicycle-drawn taxi similar to a rickshaw, and, in this story, the nickname of an 18-year-old boy trying to scrape together a living in the desperate poverty of Ho Chi Mihn City. Cyclo lives with his grandfather and two sisters, and drives his taxi for a bitter woman who devotes most of her time to her mentally unstable son. When the pedal-cab is stolen, Cyclo is forced into a life of crime to repay the debt and falls in with a group of petty thugs led by a self-styled poet. What Cyclo doesn’t know at first is that the poet is also a pimp, and he’s been using his romantic wiles to lure Cyclo’s older sister into a career as a prostitute.

Director: Anh Hung Tran. 

Writer: Anh Hung Tran. 

Stars: Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Quynh Nhu, Hoang Phuc Nguyen.

Subtitled in English.

Video Link. https://ok.ru/video/7455647992486

Aghaye Halou (1970) aka Mr. Gullible

A movie from Iran. 

While on the surface Mr. Gullible contains all the hallmarks of a good comedy, at its heart this movie portrays with uncommon clarity the pitfalls of love and the pain of betrayal. When the protagonist leaves his small village and travels to Tehran to find a wife, he does so with all the gusto and naivete of one who has not experienced the world. Yet even when Mr. Gullible encounters some of the harsh realities of the big city, he is not dissuaded from accomplishing his mission to find a bride. When he finally meets what he believes is the perfect woman, Mr Gullible showers her with gifts and asks her to marry him. However, his romantic visions of life with his lady love are obliterated when he discovers her true identity

Director: Dariush Mehrjui. 

Writers: Dariush Mehrjui, Ali Nasirian.

Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali KeshavarZ.

Quality is poor, but watchable.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/6834627349158

Valter brani Sarajevo (1972) aka Walter Defends Sarajevo

A movie from former Yugoslavia

In late 1944, as the end of World War II approaches, the Wehrmacht’s high command determines to withdraw General Alexander Lohr’s Army Group ‘E’ from the Balkans back to Germany. They plan to supply the tank columns with fuel from a depot in Sarajevo. The Yugoslav partisans’ leader in the city, a mysterious man known as Walter, presents a grave danger to the operation’s success, and the Germans dispatch Standartenfuhrer von Dietrich of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) to deal with him.

Director: Hajrudin Krvavac. 

Writer: Djordje Lebovic.

Stars: Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Neda Spasojevic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, Hannjo Hasse, Rolf Römer, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Pavle Vuisic, Faruk Begolli, Stevo Zigon, Etela Pardo, Jovan Janicijevic-Burdus, Vladan Holec, Vojislav Miric, Igor Galo, Davor Antolic, Relja Basic, Rudi Alvadj, Alex Delmare, Rastislav Jovic, Zlatko Madunic, Boro Begovic, Herbert Köfer, Helmut Schreiber, Husein Cokic, Demeter Bitenc, Zoran Becic, Andrej Nahtigal, Mihajlo Mrvaljevic, Eugen Verber, Jozo Lepetic, Zarko Mijatovic, Ramiz Sekic, Ranko Gucevac, Slobodan Velimirovic, Sutka Petrinic, Aleksandar Vojtov, Darinka Gvozdenovic, Aleksandar Micic, Dragan Stipic, Emir Kusturica.

Emir Kusturica famous film director made his acting debut in this movie.

Subtitled in English.

Video Link: https://ok.ru/video/6841486215846

Serial Killer - Ryakushô: renzoku shasatsuma - (1975)

Between October 11 and November 5 of 1968, teenager Norio Nagayama murdered four people in a killing spree across Japan with a shotgun stolen from a U.S. Army base. Adachi Masao, together with cultural theorist Matsuda Masao, scriptwriter Sasaki Mamoru and other collaborators, set out to trace the young man’s footsteps with a camera in hand. The result is an experimental documentary comprised purely of landscape shots, each of which shows scenery that Nagayama may or may not have seen during his upbringing and journey. Seeking an alternative to the sensationalism found in the media’s depiction of serial killers (which continues to this day), Adachi’s sparse voice-over provides only the hard facts while the increasing number of billboards in the landscapes slowly reveal the hegemony of capitalism in contemporary Japan.

Director: Masao Adachi (uncredited). 

Stars: Masao Adachi (narrator).

Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamazaki.

Composers: Mototeru Takagi, Masahiko Togashi.

With English Subtitles.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7107675359910

Mado (Claude Sautet, 1976)

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon’s unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon’s trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems…

Director: Claude Sautet.

Writers: Claude Néron, Claude Sautet.

Stars: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Charles Denner, Romy Schneider, Julien Guiomar, Claude Dauphin, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, André Falcon, Benoît Allemane, Jacques Richard, Jean-Denis Robert, Nicolas Vogel, Marc Chapiteau, Sabine Glaser, Konrad von Bork, David Tonelli, Nathalie Baye, Dominique Zardi, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Denise Filiatrault, Bernard Fresson.

Cinematographer: Jean Boffety.

Composer: Philippe Sarde.

Subs: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7332740008614

Hägringen (1959) aka Fata Morgana / Mirage

In 1959, Peter Weiss made his first feature length film, Hägringen, with Staffan Lamm and Gunilla Palmstierna in leading roles. The script to the rather experimental film is based on the novel Document I which he had published in Swedish in 1949 on his own initiative. The film shows the encounter of a young man with a large city that is yet unknown to him. His passage, accompanied by often surrealistic and absurd impressions, turns into a tour-de-force through various urban milieus. 

Director: Peter Weiss.

Writer: Peter Weiss.

Stars: Staffan Lamm, Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, Birger Åsander, Lars Edström, Tor-Ivan Odulf.

Cinematographer: Gustaf Mandal.

Composers: Lennart Fors, Peter Weiss.

Subs: English.

Link: https://rarefilmm.com/2023/04/hagringen-1959/

Chappaquiddick (2017)

The scandal and mysterious events surrounding the tragic drowning of a young woman, as Ted Kennedy drove his car off the infamous bridge, are revealed in the new movie starring Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo Kopechne. Not only did this event take the life of an aspiring political strategist and Kennedy insider, but it ultimately changed the course of presidential history forever. Through true accounts, documented in the inquest from the investigation in 1969, director John Curran and writers Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen, intimately expose the broad reach of political power, the influence of America's most celebrated family; and the vulnerability of Ted Kennedy, the youngest son, in the shadow of his family legacy.

Director
John Curran

Stars
Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms

Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/XgnviGpuoz4

Copyright blocked in the US and UK.

Appointment in Bray - Rendez-vous à Bray - (1971)

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family’s empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques’ girlfriend Odile.

Directed by: André Delvaux

Stars: Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool.

| 85:29mins | 668×404 (DVDrip)

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/wJcYxbyyIiE

Subs: English.

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The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson, 1987)

It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. The cottage, which now belongs to Sarah, has been in their family most of their lives, was the family's summer getaway from Philadelphia when they were younger. There are a few people who have been friends or acquaintances on the island, including the outspoken Tisha Dought, and Joshua Brackett. Someone new at least to Sarah's social circle is Mr. Maranov, a former Russian aristocrat. His stay on the island is threatened when his landlady, Hilda Partridge, passes away. Sarah and Libby have come to the realization they are in the respective twilight of their lives,

Director

Lindsay Anderson

Stars

    Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sotherm, Harry Carey Jr. , Mary Steenburgen

VIDEO LINK https://youtu.be/xvLVt87lZu4

   Subs: English, Portuguese

Screen legend Lillian Gish was 93 when she co-starred in this film, making her the oldest actress ever to feature in a leading role.

Actor Vincent Price and actress Bette Davis had both previously appeared in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) around forty-eight years earlier.

The Chessplayer - El jugador de ajedrez - (2017)

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets Marianne Latour, a French journalist, and they fall in love. At the end of the civil war, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with her and their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Germans and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

Director

    Luis Oliveros

Writers

    Julio CastedoStefan Zweig

Stars

    Marc Clotet, Melina Matthews, Alejo Sauras

Subtitles: English

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/GHwhKPsEDVc