The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid (1993)

1993

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in […]

Brotherly Love (1970)

1970

In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O’Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). However, while at a local sheep auction, she encounters Douglas and realizes she still loves him. They agree […]

Prorva (1992) aka Moscow Parade

1992
February 2, 2021

Set in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin’s secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler. In this free-wheeling drama, dozens of little dramas center around an affair between the wife of an NKVD official and a baggage handler she has met. The woman, a former aristocrat, is relatively safe in Moscow in 1930, even though Joseph Stalin is running the country since she is […]

Shape of Red

Red (2020)

2020
February 2, 2021

Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn’t have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in ten years. Toko Suguri indulges in a sexual relationship with Akihiko Kurata.

The Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1976)

1976

A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.