I’m Watching You (1997)

1997

LoriDawn plays a naive, hometown girl who comes to apartment-sit in an artist’s loft for a friend and fellow artist. Enter friendly neighbor Lovell, a carefree art model who shows her new acquaintance the ways of exhibitionist freedom and voyeurism.The storyline — often minimal in such movies — is a respectable attempt at a “Rear Window” or “Body Double” type plot, as our lovely lead gets more than she bargains for in her newfound voyeuristic […]

Thrilled to Death (1988)

1988

A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple. Cliff, a marginally successful writer of a paperback detective series, has found the perfect setting for mu..er. He is using an adult club for swingers as a backdrop for his questionable characters to commit their lurid crimes. While reluctantly researching the seedy swing scene, he and his cosmopolitan wife Elaine meet Daryll and Nancy; an outgoing, unusually charming couple. They unwittingly become caught […]

Liebestraum (1991)

1991

Two affairs, a generation apart. Nick, a professor of architecture in upstate New York, comes to an Illinois town to be with his birth mother in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and has never known her. On the first day, he runs into Paul, a college friend, whose construction company is demolishing an old, downtown department store where a mu..er-suicide happened 30 years before. The building is of beautiful cast-iron construction, […]

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 […]

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 […]