Liebe in anderen Umständen (2009) aka Love in Other Circumstances

2009

When Silke, 45-year-old housewife accidentally finds out her husband, Richard has an affair with Klara, a 24-year-old law student, her seemingly perfect world collapses. He wants a divorce after 20 years of marriage. But she decides to go to Klara to fight for her husband. She hopes to move her half-old rival to retreat, but only meets her ex-boyfriend, Felix in her apartment. A binge drinking him, head over heels, they plunge into a one-night […]

Flower & Snake 3

Flower & Snake 3 (2010)

2010

Shizuko (Minako Komukai), a budding cellist, is married to Yoshiichiro Kaito, chairman of the Kansai Zaibatsu. They live a happy life both publicly and privately. However, in such a peaceful life, the devil’s hand of Takayama Toyama, president of the Toyama group, creeps up. Toyama, an ambitious person who is willing to use despicable means for his own desires, plans to make Shizuko his own. She drives Shizuko’s husband into bankruptcy and death and makes […]

Flower & Snake II (2005)

2005

Tooyama, an aging impotent art critic, sends his much-younger wife, Shizuko, to Paris to evaluate the work of Ikegami, an artist he sponsors. She discovers she’s curious about sado-masochism, and soon she becomes Ikegami’s object of bondage as well as his muse. Encounters with Ikegami lead her into a shadowy world of wealthy patrons of ropes, humiliation, and slavery. Ikegami discovers his protective side, and Tooyama reenters the picture. Once Shizuko can reestablish control over […]

Máncora (2008)

2008

An adventure drama that tells the story of Santiago, a 22-year old from Lima. Following his father’s suicide, haunted by his inner daemons and hatred for the world in general, Santiago decides to escape the crude Lima winter to take refuge in Mancora, a beach to the north of Peru where it is always summer. Upon his departure, Santiago receives the unexpected visit from his stepsister, Ximena, a young and beautiful photographer in her late […]

Match Point (2005)

2005

Tennis pro Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his students, wealthy young Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode). Tom introduces Chris to his family, and Chris falls quickly into a romance with Tom’s sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer). But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris’ way through his relationship with […]

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

1988

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his success. His reward for doing […]

Valmont (1989)

1989

France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin’s daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl’s virginity. But first, she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman. Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though […]