My Wife’s Romance

2011

When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has inherited. Eve and Chollet become close, perhaps too close, and their intimacy soon begins to arouse the suspicions of the police..

Rome Express

1932

American film star Asta Marvelle travels in Europe aboard the Rome Express . On the train, she meets her former partner in crime, Tony, and is blackmailed into assisting his new accomplice in an attempted art theft. A French police chief foils the thieves, though he allows Asta and Tony to exit the train without arrest.

Woyzeck

1994
January 12, 2018

Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck’s pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption.

Castaway

Castaway

1986

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try […]

Clair Obscur

Clair Obscur ( aka Tereddüt)

2016
December 14, 2017

Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today.

When the Night

When the Night (aka Quando la notte)

2011
December 7, 2017

Marina, a woman who has trouble with getting used to be a mother, takes a holiday in a mountain lodge with his baby boy. She lives a tragic incident and his landlord Manfred gets involved in it. From then on, a strange relation between Marina and Manfred begins.

The Enigma of the Yacht (aka El enigma del yate)

1983
December 4, 2017

Natalia and Carlos. Jorge and Blanca. Here are two couples about to go on a trip in a private yacht. It will serve as a treatment for Natalia, who has been suffering from various mental disorders in recent times. But soon after they are at sea, Jorge – who was Natalia’s psychologist and the boat’s skipper – turns up dead. The three remaining occupants are left at the mercy of fate.