Marc and Rebeca travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family: once there, they will write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity… and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.Read More »
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Julio Medem – El árbol de la sangre AKA The Tree of Blood (2018)
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Ilkka Järvi-Laturi – Kotia päin AKA Homebound (1989)
Ilkka Järvi-Laturi1981-1990DramaFinlandThrillerImdb:
Mika’s (Ilkka Koivula) mother marries a man who is getting out of the jail. At the beginning everything seems to be all right. Mika leaves Oulu, an industrial city up in Northern Finland, to study in the capital, Helsinki. He does very well with his studies and also begins a relationship with the girl he knew already back in Oulu. Meanwhile the new husband reveals his true self – and all of a sudden things get very serious.Read More » -
Christopher Hampton – The Secret Agent (1996)
Christopher Hampton1991-2000DramaThrillerUnited KingdomVerloc lives in London 1886 with a pretty wife and her retarded brother. He’s an agent for the Russian embassy. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years – something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.Read More »
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Alan Rudolph – Endangered Species (1982)
Alan Rudolph1981-1990MysteryThrillerUSAA New York cop and a lady sheriff investigate a string of cattle mutilations in the West.Read More »
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José Luis Borau – Leo (2000)
José Luis Borau1991-2000DramaSpainThrillerSynopsis
Salva works as a sworn guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who collects cardboard for a living. Little by little Salva falls in love with the young woman, but Leo’s life has a murky past.Read More » -
Robert Morin – Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur AKA Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (1992)
Robert Morin1991-2000ArthouseCanadaThrillerQuote:
Dubbed by the media as public enemy number one, Louis-Régis Savoie is serving 25 to life in prison. His son comes to visit him for the first time in five years just in time to see his father shoot a police officer and escape. On the run, Régis has more of a devil-may-care attitude than ever before despite a massive police manhunt. During his escapades he meets eight different people and plans his escape from the country. Three days later, one of those will rat to the police and Savoie is shot. Who ratted?Read More » -
Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme (2023)
Ng Choon Ping2021-2030Queer Cinema(s)Sam H. FreemanThrillerUnited KingdomSynopsis:
Follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.Read More » -
Ryan Dickie & Abigail Horton – Blow Up My Life (2022)
Abigail Horton2021-2030ComedyRyan DickieThrillerUSAA disgraced pharmaceutical employee accidentally discovers a deadly opioid vape conspiracy, sending him and his cousin on the run to expose the crime with a trail of chaos in their wake.Read More »
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Jacques Deray – Avec la peau des autres AKA To Skin A Spy (1966)
Jacques Deray1961-1970FranceThrillerA murky, downbeat spy thriller written by José Giovanni and starring Lino Ventura. A French spy in Vienna is suspected of being a double agent, and a colleague of his is sent over to investigate. When the former man is kidnapped by the Russians, his complex network of contacts has to be unravelled in order to trace an important microfilm. The two final ironic twists sort of cancel each other out, but a British director and Michael Caine could have done wonders with this script. Deray’s dry, anonymous matter-of-factness would be more suited to the parable of Un papillon sur l’épaule that he made with Ventura about a decade later.Read More »