The Stud

The Stud

1978

Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.

All of a Sudden

1996
May 18, 2018

The film opens with a naked woman plunging to her death off of a high-rise — a seeming suicide. Her husband Tsui Chin-tung (Simon Yam) is unconvinced and sets out to seek vengeance against sleazy businessman Lam Kwok-chui (Alfred Cheung) with whom his wife was having an affair with. Though only planning to beat the guy up, he ends up abducting his beautiful wife Ho-yee (Wan) along with his kid. When his crime threatens to […]

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (aka La moglie di mio padre)

1976

A wealthy man (played by former James Bond villain Adolf Celli) suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife (Carroll Baker). Since Viagara hadn’t been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor (Luigi Pistilli) instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it’s amazing that he doesn’t have a heart attack though). […]

Amok

1934

Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover’s child before her husband returns from abroad. Even […]

That Most Important Thing: Love (aka L’important c’est d’aimer)

1975

Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of ‘Richard III’ and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.

Betrayed Friends (aka Verratene Freunde)

2013

(Google Translated) Entrepreneur Peter Staude has invited headmaster Andreas Rogel, longtime friend of his wife Christa, as well as his wife Heike to dinner. Heike, who works as a doctor, and Peter have a secret affair for half a year and Christa suspects that her husband is a stranger. She throws this to Peter while eating and goes to her room. Heike and Andreas are embarrassed by the situation and Andreas wants to find out […]

Lies 2014 aka The Liar

2014

Jin-hee (Yoon Seol-hee) meets married man Min-ki (Hong Seok-yeon) on an online meeting site to make a living for herself and her incompetent boyfriend. She meets him for money but they slowly fall into something more than just a physical relationship. One day, a rumor spreads that she’s a whore and breaks up with her boyfriend. With the betrayal for her boyfriend and love for Min-ki growing deeper, Jin-hee decides to put everything in the […]