Counsel (2019)
2019A married, alpha female barrister complicates her professional and personal life when she falls for a client.
Genres: Drama
Far from the Sea (2015) aka Lejos del mar
2015In 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
1995Bobi (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)
2013Tamio 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)
2017In 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 […]
Night Eyes II (1991)
1991Security expert Will Griffith has been hired to secure the mansion of South American expatriate Hector Mejenes, who has had attempts made on his life, upon the insistence of his American wife, Marilyn. Now the neglected wife finds herself attracted to the security guard and vice versa.
Eyes Behind the Wall (1977)
1977Ivano is a wheelchair-bound man with some strange perversions. He gets his sexual kicks by spying on Arturo, their tenant in the apartment next-door and forcing his sexy accomplice Olga to watch as well. To increase his perverse thrill, Ivano persuades Olga to seduce Arturo and to have sex him as he watches. Unfortunately for all involved, the sex game starts to get very deadly.
Good Morning… and Goodbye! (1967)
1967Tales of eleven losers are told and interwoven. Burt can’t satisfy Angel, so she seeks the arms of another man, who is caught by Angel in the arms of another woman. Angel ends up with Justin, who ends up with a co-worker’s wife. As Angel and Burt argue, a sorceress watches, and eventually seduces Burt while Angel gets to know Ray, who had previously chased a blonde girl down on the coast. You get the […]
Glorious Moment: A Woman’s Scroll (1972)
1972Osono and Eisuke would like to get married but with her up to her neck in debt due to her late father’s illness and him trying to raise the funds to start a business, they can’t afford to do so. Osono agrees to work as a geisha and eventually is tricked into becoming a businessman’s mistress, all because she wants to help her lover. The businessman, in turn, is actually only interested in training her […]
Texture of Skin (2007)
2007The film follows Min-Woo, a photographer for an investigative journal, through several weeks of his life after a chance encounter with Jae-hee, an ex-girlfriend from his college days. Jae-hee, now a married businesswoman, makes an unusual proposition to Min-woo. She wants to have an affair, but limits it strictly to only nine encounters. Min-woo agrees to this only to find old feelings awakening within him as the affair progresses. He is also increasingly plagued by […]