Love Never to End (2007)

2007
June 4, 2020

Washed-out writer Murao Kikuji penned many popular novels in the past, but it has been a while since he’s written anything new. Separated from his wife, he passes his time editing for a magazine and lecturing at a university. When Kikuji meets housewife Fuyuka, the two lonely souls instantly connect, forming an illicit bond of love and passion. Then one summer morning, Kikuji strangles Fuyuka to death – because she asked him to.

Summertime (2001)

2001

In the gloomy 80s, Sang-ho is wanted by the authorities for his participation in the student movement. Parting with his colleagues, Sang-ho happens to end up in a town on the outskirts, a town he has no connection to. The place where he is in hiding is the second floor of a worn down wooden house. Spending his time idly in the room, one day, Sang-ho discovers a hole looking into the room downstairs by […]

The Woman Who Invented Love

The Woman Who Invented Love (1980) aka A Mulher Que Inventou o Amor

1980

Doralice has sex with the butcher and discloses it to her roommate and friend. Her friend tells that she is a prostitute and convinces Doralice to prostitute with her in a fleshpot. Doralice dreams of getting married and is an enthusiastic fan of the soap-opera actor Cesar Augusto. But she becomes a famous prostitute known as The Queen of Moaning in Pleasure. When she meets the wealthy Doctor Perdigão, she becomes his mistress and quits […]

Promiscuidade, os Pivetes de Kátia (1984)

1984

A young woman cheats on her impotent husband with the surrounding teenagers. Mauro, a young railway engineer and happily married to beautiful Kátia, lives in complete harmony with his father-in-law, Sergio, Kátia’s brother, Beto, Paulo’s wife, Adriana, and Beto’s girlfriend, Kika. On one of the family’s trips to the railway terminal, Mauro suffers a violent fall and falls into a coma. Hurriedly taken to the hospital, he recovered, however, due to the severity of the […]

Far from the Sea (2015) aka Lejos del mar

2015

In 2009, and after 22 years in prison, a former ETA’s terrorist named Santi is released due to the Parot Doctrine (a polemic judicial resource to liberate activists and terrorists according to their sentences and years in detention). Santi travels to a little town called Cabo de Gata, Almería to meet Emilio, a friend and former cellmate. During a visit to the hospital where Emilio is in, Santi accidentally meets Marina, who faints after seeing […]

Forbidden Scandal (1995) aka Skandal Terlarang

1995
June 2, 2020

Bobi (Chairil JM) and Santi (Windy Chindyana) are childless though they have been married for five years. They are friends with another couple, Krisman and Sri. Krisman and Bobi have a business relationship but then Krisman starts an affair with Santi. They have sex and she gets pregnant. But Bobi does not know that the baby is Krisman’s. Years later, Santi’s daughter, Marina, is robbed by two men. Andi shows up and saves her. Andi […]

Meeting in Secret (2013)

2013

Tamio Shibata is a writer who stays at home but is having a writer’s block. His wife, Yumi, goes to work every day and is the one paying their mortgage. The relationship between the two is cold. One day, a couple moves next door and has the same surname as them but just written in different Kanji characters. Tamio Shibata, who stays at home all day, and Asako Shibata (Iori Kogawa), the new housewife next […]

Newness (2017)

2017

In contemporary L.A., two twenty-somethings millennials, Martin, a pharmacist and Gabi, a physiotherapist spend their weekends “swiping” on a dating app. The options are endless, but it’s less about connection and more about hooking-up. But when they meet, they find themselves talking into the early hours. Connecting. It’s exciting. It’s new. They mysteriously regain their feelings and fall in love. Exhilarated by each other, they rush into a relationship. They go out on dates. They […]