Bound

Bound

1996

Corky, a lesbian ex-con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Caesar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in […]

Another Life

Another Life

2001

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn’t really love him and he feels it every day. He’s also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister’s one-time boyfriend. They have […]

Crazy Sex

1976
February 27, 2019

Shaw Brothers super director Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. The second features an elderly jeweler’s adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello.

The Freezing Point

Freezing Point

1966

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes that because of her affair with his colleague Murai, she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter’s death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer’s child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child. When husband/doctor Keizo returns home for […]

Breath

Breath

2007
January 23, 2019

A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.