L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)

L'Apollonide
(Souvenirs de la maison close)
Genres: Drama /  Adult 
Year: 2011
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Cast:  Noémie Lvovsky / Hafsia Herzi / Céline Sallette / Jasmine Trinca / Adèle Haenel / Alice Barnole /
Iliana Zabeth / Pauline Jacquard / Anaïs Thomas / Maia Sandoz / Joanna Grudzinska / Esther Garrel / Xavier Beauvois / Louis-Do de Lencquesaing / Jacques Nolot

Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. The madam essentially owns the women: their expenses exceed earnings, they are in debt. They face problems of pregnancy, opium, age, and violent clients. One reads sociology at her peril. Occasionally, a client talks of marriage. There are also friendships and affection among the women. The madam is in a dispute with her landlord and calls on influential clients to help. There's a picnic one summer day, a wake, and an evening in masks. Have they expectations? In a coda, we watch a street scene in contemporary Paris. 

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Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley
Genres: Drama / Romance/ Adult 
Year: 2006
Director: Pascale Ferran
Cast: Marina Hands / Jean-Louis Coulloc'h / Hippolyte Girardot / Hélène Alexandridis / Hélène Fillières /  Bernard Verley / Sava Lolov / Jean-Baptiste Montagut / Fanny Deleuze / Michel Vincent / Colette Philippe / Christelle Hes / Jade Bouchard / Joël Vandael / Jacques De Bock 
Sir Clifford has returned from the Great War to his estate near Sheffield, paralyzed from the waist down. Lady Constance, his young wife, cares for him, but she's lifeless, enervated. Her physician prescribes the open air, and she finds a quiet retreat at the hut - the workplace - of Parkin, the estate's gamekeeper. The rhythms of nature awaken Connie - daffodils, pheasant chicks - and soon she and Parkin become lovers. She's now radiant. Parkin, too, opens up. Class distinctions and gender roles may be barriers to the affair becoming more. Connie's trip to France, with her father and sister, bring the lovers to a nuanced resolution.

Io, Don Giovanni

Io, Don Giovanni
Genres: Drama / History / Music
Year: 2009
Director: Carlos Saura
Cast: Tobias Moretti / Eulàlia Ramon / Sergi Roca / Anna Saura Ramón / Francesco Barilli / Lorenzo Balducci / Elena Cucci /  Sebastiano Lo Monaco / Sylvia De Fanti / Javier Munzò / Franco Interlenghi / Emilia Verginelli / Lino Guanciale / Ketevan Kemoklidze  / Cristina Giannelli
Venice. 1763. The writer Lorenzo Da Ponte leads a dissolute life. He was a priest but his amorous adventures too many forced him into exile in Vienna. Helped by 'friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte knows Salieri, the composer preferred by the King, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Looking for an opportunity to thwart the rise of Mozart, Salieri Mozart convinced to take on the unknown libertine as librettist. The restlessness erotic-sentimental Da Ponte in Vienna feed his inspiration, giving rise to one of the most bold and powerful compositions Mozart: Don Giovanni.

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

Genres: Biography / Drama
Year: 2011
Director: Simon Curtis
Cast:Julia Ormond / Eddie Redmayne / Michelle Williams / Michael Kitchen / Geraldine Somerville / Pip Torrens / Kenneth Branagh  / Miranda Raison / Karl Moffatt / Simon Russell Beale / Toby Jones / Robert Portal / Philip Jackson / Jim Carter / Victor McGuire

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

Asso

Asso
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1981
Director: Franco Castellano / Giuseppe Moccia
Cast: Adriano Celentano / Edwige Fenech / Renato Salvatori / Sylva Koscina / Pippo Santonastaso / Gianni Magni / Memo Dittongo / Elisabetta Viviani / Dino Cassio / Sandro Ghiani / Raffaele di Sipio / Gianni Musy / John Stacy / Gerry Bruno /
Franco Belli

Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the 'final' game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ? 

Letti Selvaggi

Letti Selvaggi

Genres: Comedy / Adult

Year: 1979

Director: Luigi Zampa
Cast: Ursula Andress / Laura Antonelli / Sylvia Kristel / Monica Vitti / Orazio Orlando /Michele Placido / José Sacristán / Enrico Beruschi / Roberto Benigni / José Luis López Vázquez / Marco Bonetti / Gianfranco Barra / Rossana Di Lorenzo / Antonio Gamero / Elisa Mainardi
Episodic film. 1. A fake carpet salesman gets in trouble for a crime committed by another. 2. A faithful wife and a husband incredulously makes the cost an innocent passer-by. 3. A fresh widow lays her mourning to pose for a photographer. 4. Replaces a prostitute to play the mother of a brat turbulent, then the game becomes serious. 5. A senior teacher has a young wife. Too young. 6. Thief thief him and her. A jewel for the competition is fierce. 7. To make the job a few body builders "take on" a stripper. 8. A conductor forget their commitment to a woman ...

I Spit On Your Grave

I Spit On Your Grave

Genres: Horror / Thriller

Year: 1978

Director: Meir Zarchi
Cast: Camille Keaton / Eron Tabor / Richard Pace / Anthony Nichols / Gunter Kleemann / Alexis Magnotti / Tammy Zarchi /
Terry Zarchi / Traci Ferrante / William Tasgal / Isaac Agami /
Ronit Haviv
The film follows Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city to finish it. She rents a riverside cabin in upstate New York to work on her novel, attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals. They catch Jennifer one day and strip her naked for the village idiot (Matthew) and rape her. Jennifer is later attacked and raped a further two times by the four degenerates, and her novel is also destroyed. But Jennifer recovers, and in her now-twisted, psychotic state, she begins to seek revenge on the men. 

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Genres: Drama / Romance

Year: 1974

Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford / Mia Farrow / Bruce Dern / Karen Black /  Scott Wilson / Sam Waterston / Lois Chiles / Howard Da Silva / Roberts Blossom / Edward Herrmann / Elliott Sullivan / Arthur Hughes / Kathryn Leigh Scott / Beth Porter / Paul Tamarin
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. 

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The Apartment

The Apartment
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Year: 1960
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon / Shirley MacLaine / Fred MacMurray /
 Ray Walston / Jack Kruschen / David Lewis / Hope Holiday / Joan Shawlee / Naomi Stevens / Johnny Seven / Joyce Jameson / Willard Waterman / David White / Edie Adams
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the ...

Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison
Genres:Drama / Crime
Year: 1956
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Richard Denning / Joan Taylor / Adele Jergens / Helen Gilbert / Lance Fuller / Jane Darwell / Raymond Hatton / Mae Marsh / Phyllis Coates / Diana Darrin / Laurie Mitchell / Luana Walters / Riza Royce / Lottie Salisbury / Edmund Cobb 

Protesting innocence (of course), 21-year-old Anne Carson, convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery, finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form-fitting uniforms: tough Jenny, unbalanced Dorothy, and deceptive, sweet-talking Melanee who (it's implied) makes unwanted lesbian advances toward Anne. The prison chaplain takes an interest in her case...or is it in her? As Anne meets the darker side of prison life, she learns that her greatest danger is the existence, somewhere out there, of unrecovered bank loot everyone thinks she hid.

Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison
Genres:Drama / Thriller / Crime
Year: 1994
Director: John McNaughton
Cast: Diane McGee / Harvey Chao / Bahni Turpin / Ralph Meyering Jr. / Letitia Hicks / Ione Skye / J. Patrick McCormack / William C. Clark / William Boyett / David Paul Needles / Tamara Clatterbuck / Missy Crider / Jon Polito / Anne Heche / Angie Rae McKinney

Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
  

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo 
Genres:Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Year: 2011
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Selena Gomez / Leighton Meester / Katie Cassidy / Cory Monteith / Andie MacDowell / Brett Cullen / Amanda Fairbank Hynes / Joe Camp III / Luke Bracey / Valérie Lemercier / Máté Haumann / Franck de la Personne / István Göz / Attila Árpa / Joël Lefrançois
A young woman, her uptight step sister and her best friend use their savings for a long anticipated dream trip to Paris, which turns out to be a big disappointment. When they decide to take a break from their lousy tour and duck into the lobby of a luxury hotel, one of them is mistaken for a spoiled British heiress. Before they get the chance to reveal their true identities they are wrapped up in misadventures during a vacation to Monte Carlo instead. 

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Don't Look Down

Don't Look Down
Genres:Drama / Romance / Adult
Year: 2008
Director: Eliseo Subiela
Cast:  Leandro Stivelman / Antonella Costa / Hugo Arana / Mónica Galán / Octavio Borro / María Elena Ruas /
Marzenka Novak / Viviana Piccolo
Coming of age. In Buenos Aires, Eloy is on the verge of manhood. He studies physics, helps with the family headstone business, and does advertising - handing out flyers while walking on stilts or wearing an empanada costume. When his melancholy father dies, Eloy imagines that his father visits him at night; the explanation is more pedestrian - Eloy has started sleepwalking. Things change abruptly: while sleepwalking, he falls through an open skylight into the bed of Elvira, a young woman from Barcelona visiting her grandmother. Elvira invites Eloy to become her lover and teaches him Tantric sex. Eloy discovers bliss. And his father? 

V For Vendetta

V For Vendetta
Genres:Action  / Crime  / Fantasy
Year: 2005
Director: James McTeigue
Cast:  Natalie Portman / Hugo Weaving / Stephen Rea / Stephen Fry / John Hurt / Tim Pigott-Smith / Rupert Graves / Roger Allam / Ben Miles / Sinéad Cusack / Natasha Wightman / John Standing / Eddie Marsan / Clive Ashborn / Emma Field-Rayner / Ian Burfield / Mark Phoenix / Alister Mazzotti / Billie Cook / Guy Henry / Cosima Shaw / Megan Gay / Roderic Culver / Tara Hacking / Andy Rashleigh / Chad Stahelski

The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.