Tuna Girl
A clumsy but cheerful fisheries student struggles to find her place at a research institute renowned for its tuna cultivation. The work isn’t easy.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mana Yasuda
Actors: Chal Inoue, Fuka Koshiba, Hidetoshi Hoshida, Hiroto Kanai, Ryosuke Yusa, Shuri Tanaka, Takashi Taniguchi, Takeshi Masu, Tom Fujita
The Idolmaker
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Chalk
A unique film about pool.. Hustler vs newbie and interesting visuals. Very “90’s”
Cupid’s Arrow
An innocent college couple unknowingly become involved in their Professor’s illicit research into the manipulation of love and his recreation of the elusive “Cupid’s Arrow”.
Care
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke…
The Damned
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Crime and Punishment
Pierre Chenal’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.
Flossie
The young girl Flossie comes straight from a Swiss boarding school to Stockholm where she meets a young embassy clerk, Jack Archer. Together with her friend Eva each tell the…
Penélope
In the Smug art world, innocence perishes. This is the discovery experienced firsthands by Penelope, a young woman who, after embarking on a series of insignificant relationships, arrives at a…
Toutes les nuits
La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L’Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of…
Quinceañera
As Magdalena’s 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she’s pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle…
Like Water for Chocolate
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she…
Up at the Villa
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent…