Jessica and Gus, two apathetic teenagers, drift aimlessly from one day to the next until they meet each other. They make a tenuous and fleeting connection when Gus confides in Jessica about his dark past.

United States of America

2020-07-25T16:51:06Z

24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.

France, Islamic Republic of Iran

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

2021-06-23T02:34:03Z

Arthouse/24 Frames_Abbas Kiarostami_2017.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/24 Frames_Abbas Kiarostami_2017.mkv

Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, travel to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their camera captures and caresses the faces of a thousand children - all orphans - whose parents have died of AIDS. Recording tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death, the film attests to Africa's sunny resilience in the face of so much suffering and disease.

Islamic Republic of Iran, Uganda

2021-03-09T00:11:05Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/ABC Africa_Abbas Kiarostami_2001.mkv

After the earthquake of Guilan, the film director and his son, Puya, travel to the devastated area to search for the actors of the movie the director made there a few years ago, Khane-ye Doust Kodjast? (1987). In their search, they found how people who had lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

Islamic Republic of Iran

16589, 16589, 1075

2020-07-26T20:42:37Z

Arthouse/Life, and Nothing More... (Zendegi va digar hich)_Abbas Kiarostami_1992.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Life, and Nothing More... (Zendegi va digar hich)_Abbas Kiarostami_1992.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/And Life Goes On_Abbas Kiarostami_1992.avi

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.

2020-07-28T07:45:03Z

Arthouse/Five_Abbas Kiarostami_2003.avi, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/After 5_Abbas Kiarostami_2005/making of 5 (abbas kiarostami, 2005).avi

4 mins 29 secs

One shot, taken using a time-lapse technique, of a sunrise in an Iranian mountain landscape. A thin band of light shines across a starry sky, the sun comes up, the dawn light glows.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-10T03:09:50Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Birth of Light (Tavalod-e Nur)_Abbas Kiarostami_1997.mp4

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the dog's barking, he asks various passers-by for help but no-one pays him any attention, and he must find a solution all by himself: he throws the dog a piece of bread and, while the animal is devouring it, he continues on his way home.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:42:46Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Bread and Alley (Nān o Kūcheh)_Abbas Kiarostami_1970.mkv

A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of street where some children are playing. He's cased and forced to take a new way home.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

2021-03-08T23:44:15Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Breaktime (Zang-e Tafrih)_Abbas Kiarostami_1972.mkv

James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. At a book reading, a woman gives him her address, and the next day they meet and take a country-side drive to a local Italian village. Here, they discuss various works of art found in the town, and also the nature of their relationship - which gets both more revealed and concealed as the day progresses.

Belgium, France, Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy

1080, 1080, 1080, 720, 720, sd

14639, 10651, 14639, 915, 915, 1814

2021-06-23T02:34:15Z

Arthouse/Certified Copy_Abbas Kiarostami_2010.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Certified Copy (Copie conforme)_Abbas Kiarostami_2010.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Certified Copy_Abbas Kiarostami_2010.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Certified Copy_Abbas Kiarostami_2010.mp4, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Certified Copy_Abbas Kiarostami_2010.mp4, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Certified Copy - Behind the Scenes_Abbas Kiarostami_2020.avi

A deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can't hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:55:24Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Chorus (Hamsarayan)_Abbas Kiarostami_1996.mkv

کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک

Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Hossain Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Tehran, promising it a prominent part in his next movie. The actual people involved in the incident re-enact the actual events, followed by the footage from the actual trial that took place.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2020-07-26T20:56:45Z

Arthouse/Close-Up_Abbas Kiarostami_1990.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik)_Abbas Kiarostami_1990.mkv

A vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:47:45Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Colors (Rang-ha)_Abbas Kiarostami_1976.avi

The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-03-08T23:44:53Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Experience (Tajrobeh)_Abbas Kiarostami_1973.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Experience (تجربه‎ )_Abbas Kiarostami_1973.avi

قضیه شکل اول... شکل دوم.

While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises. In the first case after some days, one of the dismissed students tells teacher the truth. In the second case, no one tells teacher the truth and the period of punishment finishes. Kiarostami asks some of the most famous people in Iran about their views on these two cases.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:53:18Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/First Case, Second Case (Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval, Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dovom)_Abbas Kiarostami_1979.avi

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school's quotidian life.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Centre de l'éveil Intellectuel des Enfants et des Adolescents

2494, 2494, 2494

2020-07-26T21:01:33Z

Arthouse/First Graders (Avaliha)_Abbas Kiarostami_1984.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Documentary/First Graders (Avaliha)_Abbas Kiarostami_1984.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/First Graders (Avaliha)_Abbas Kiarostami_1984.mkv

In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-09T00:03:40Z

Arthouse/Homework (مشق شب)_Abbas Kiarostami_1989.avi, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Homework (Mashgh-e Shab)_Abbas Kiarostami_1989.avi

Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim?

A youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-06-23T02:55:43Z

Documentary/How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim: naghashi)_Abbas Kiarostami_1977.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim: naghashi)_Abbas Kiarostami_1977.mkv

In this guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branches out into the discovery of a fantastical world.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-06-23T02:54:47Z

Documentary/Is There a Place to Approach? (Kojast jaye residan)_Abbas Kiarostami_2007.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Is There a Place to Approach? (Kojast jaye residan)_Abbas Kiarostami_2007.mkv

Ghasr-e Jahan Nama

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete restauration of the Jahan-nama Palace, one of the Shah's traditional residencies.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-06-23T02:55:08Z

Documentary/Jahan-Nama Palace_Abbas Kiarostami_1977.mp4, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Jahan-Nama Palace_Abbas Kiarostami_1977.mp4

Like Someone in Love I is a Japanese-language film directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. It was selected to be screened in the main competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Written by Abbas Kiarostami.

2021-06-23T03:16:48Z

Arthouse/Like Someone in Love_Abbas Kiarostami_2012.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Like Someone in Love_Abbas Kiarostami_2012.mkv

به ترتیب یا بدون ترتیب

A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. To illustrate this axiom, Kiarostami presents a series of paired scenes in this educational short film in which the same action is first shown in an organised way and then in an anarchic one. The film crew, however, finds it difficult to organise disorder.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-03-08T23:54:51Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Orderly or Disorderly (Be Tartib Ya Bedun-e Tartib)_Abbas Kiarostami_1981.mkv

The movie revolves around the life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:50:35Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Report (Gozaresh)_Abbas Kiarostami_1977.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/The Report (گزارش)_Abbas Kiarostami_1977.avi

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a whole.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

2021-03-09T00:18:00Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Roads of Kiarostami_Abbas Kiarostami_2000.mkv

Life and death of three seagull eggs by the sea.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

2021-03-10T03:34:26Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Seagull Eggs_Abbas Kiarostami_2014.mp4

3 mins 36 secs

In this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:46:13Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/So Can I (Man ham Mitounam)_Abbas Kiarostami_1975.mkv

Shot amid spectacular mountain scenery north of Tehran during the Iranian revolution, this whimsical road movie follows a young man trying to hitch a ride with an unwieldy tire. After being repeatedly passed, he rolls his companion down the mountain in this lyrical journey filmed far from the instability of Iran's capital.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-03-08T23:52:18Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Solution (Rah-e Hal)_Abbas Kiarostami_1978.mkv

Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him - he has already dug out the grave in the mountains, but the assistant will have to bury him when he will do the deed. He asks Kurd soldier, Afghan seminarian, but everyone refuses by some reason. Finally he finds an old Turkish taxidermist, who has a sick son and previously attempted suicide himself, and he agrees to assist Badii.

France, Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-06-23T02:35:16Z

Arthouse/Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)_Abbas Kiarostami_1997.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)_Abbas Kiarostami_1997.mkv

The movie focuses on one of the events in And Life Goes On (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is trying to persuade the actress that they should get married.

Islamic Republic of Iran, France

10861, 10861, 993

2020-07-18T21:33:06Z

Arthouse/Through the Olive Trees (Zire darakhatan zeyton)_Abbas Kiarostami_1994.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Through the Olive Trees (Zire darakhatan zeyton)_Abbas Kiarostami_1994.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Through the Olive Trees - Abbas Kiarostami - 1994.avi

Young Mohammad-Reza falls victim to tooth decay woes-and Kiarostami takes advantage of his misfortune by documenting the trauma of the subsequent dental appointment-crafting a humorous portrait eliciting empathy for a young man in a troubling situation familiar to many.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-03-08T23:54:08Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Toothache (Dandan Dard)_Abbas Kiarostami_1980.mkv

Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:45:38Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Traveler (Mosafer)_Abbas Kiarostami_1974.mkv

4 mins 25 secs

دو راه حل برای يک مسئله

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.

Islamic Republic of Iran

2021-03-08T23:46:49Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Two Solutions for One Problem (Do Rahehal Baraye yek Masaleh)_Abbas Kiarostami_1975.mkv

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Kanun parvaresh fekri

2021-03-08T23:48:28Z

Arthouse/A Wedding Suit (Lebassi Baraye Arossi_Abbas Kiarostami_1976.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/A Wedding Suit (Lebasi Baraye Arossi)_Abbas Kiarostami_1976.mkv

8 year old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. Determinedly, the conscientious boy sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.

Islamic Republic of Iran

1080, 1080, sd, sd

9370, 9370, 1228, 1228

2020-07-18T21:31:38Z

Arthouse/Where is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?)_Abbas Kiarostami_1987.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Where is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?)_Abbas Kiarostami_1987.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Where Is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?)_Abbas Kiarostami_1987.avi, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Where Is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?)_Abbas Kiarostami_1987.avi

باد ما را خواهد برد

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

Islamic Republic of Iran, France

2021-06-23T02:35:51Z

Arthouse/The Wind Will Carry Us (Bad ma ra khahad bord)_Abbas Kiarostami_1999.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/The Wind Will Carry Us (Bad ma ra khahad bord)_Abbas Kiarostami_1999.mkv

Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari

Ten, the latest film by Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, focuses on ten conversations between a female driver in Tehran and the passengers in her car. Her exchanges with her young son, a jilted bride, a prostitute, a women on her way to prayer and others, shed light on the lives and emotions of these women whose voices are seldom heard.

Islamic Republic of Iran

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

2021-03-09T00:13:25Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Ten (Dah‎)_Abbas Kiarostami_2002.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/10 on Ten_Abbas Kiarostami_2002.avi

A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.

United States of America

2020-10-23T13:43:41Z

Spotlight: Nuncore by Sabrina Tarasoff/Ms .45_Abel Ferrara_1981.mkv

A returning vet attending college falls in love with a pretty co-ed and becomes obsessive over her.

Cameroon, Germany, United States of America

2020-07-26T21:23:58Z

Perawan disarang sindikat

Two sisters plot for revenge against the drug-lord who murdered their family and took their home, now being used as a base for their experiments on aphrodisiacs. The older sister becomes a prostitute in order to get close to the gang.

2021-11-06T15:04:34Z

An in-depth look at the artist Dwayne LIL' WAYNE Carter Jr, proclaimed by many as the "greatest rapper alive" With comprehensive and personal interviews with Lil' Wayne, this film will also feature insight from those that know him best. The world will finally get to know the history surrounding one of the most prolific artists of this generation.

United States of America

QD3 Entertainment

2020-07-25T03:40:19Z

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…

2020-07-25T03:55:04Z

Documentary/HyperNormalisation_Adam Curtis_2016.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Documentary/HyperNormalisation_AdamCurtis_2016.mp4

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959; it uses archive footage and American pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

2020-07-25T03:55:05Z

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.

United Kingdom, United States of America

Independent Film Channel

2021-10-28T15:14:49Z

Documentary/Samuel Fuller - The Typewriter The Rifle & The Movie Camera_Adam Simon_1996.mp4

दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे

When Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) first met on an inter-rail holiday in Europe, it wasn't exactly love at first sight but when Simran is taken back to India for an arranged marriage, things change. Encouraged by his father Dharamvir (Anupam Kher), Raj decides to fly down from London to not just win his bride but her whole family and the blessings of her father Baldev Singh (Amrish Puri).

2022-06-12T19:50:22Z

Hollywood／Industry/Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge_Aditya Chopra_1995.mkv

A young elf girl, ill from constant headaches and barely surviving with her mother in a poor and dangerous place, discovers that her forbidden special powers may be the only key to freedom. As her situation worsens and hope begins to fail, a faceless Protector offers to guide her to safety.

United States of America

2021-11-28T22:02:13Z

Du côté de la côte

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.

2020-08-14T12:05:56Z

Documentary/Along The Coast (Du côté de la côte)_Agnes Varda_1958.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Along the Coast_Agnes Varda_1958.avi, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Documentary/Along the Coast_Agnes Varda_1958.avi

Les Plages d'Agnès

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.

ARTE France Cinéma

2020-08-14T12:24:59Z

Documentary/The Beaches Of Agnes_Agnès Varda_2008.avi

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.

2020-07-25T03:35:15Z

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Rome Paris Films

2020-07-26T20:56:23Z

Arthouse/Cleo from 5 to 7_Agnes Varda_1962.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Cleo From 5 To 7_Agnes Varda_1962.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Cléo from 5 to 7 - Remembrances - making of_Agnès Varda_1962.mp4

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

2020-08-14T12:29:08Z

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

2020-08-14T12:19:46Z

Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.

2020-07-25T03:40:43Z

Documentary/The Gleaners & I_Agnès Varda_2000.mp4, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Documentary/The Gleaners & I(Les glaneurs et la glaneuse)_Agnès Varda_2000.avi

Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the refuse of society, revisiting many of the original film’s subjects.

2021-01-08T08:01:32Z

Documentary/The Gleaners and I - Two Years Later (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après)_Agnès Varda_2002.mkv

Jacquot de Nantes

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

2020-08-14T12:45:10Z

Jane B. par Agnès V.

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.

2020-08-14T18:48:46Z

Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy.

2020-08-14T13:07:24Z

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

France, United States of America

Max L. Raab Productions

2020-07-26T21:04:49Z

Arthouse/Lion's Love (...and Lies)_Agnes Varda_1969.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Los Angeles Plays Itself/Copy of Lion's Love (...and Lies)_Agnes Varda_1969.mkv

La petite histoire de Gwen la bretonne

Short tribute to Gwen Deglise, who Varda met in Paris when she was trying to raise funds to move to Los Angeles. The film shows Deglise's "Los Angeles dream" rise from penniless job seeker to President of American Cinematheque.

2020-09-07T20:25:22Z

Arthouse/The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany_Agnes Varda_2008.mp4, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Documentary/The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany_Agnes Varda_2008.mp4

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.

United States of America, France

2020-07-25T03:45:44Z

Documentary/Mur Murs_Agnès Varda_1981.mp4, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Los Angeles Plays Itself/Copy of Mur Murs_Agnès Varda_1981.mp4

L'une chante, l'autre pas

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

2022-06-25T20:14:51Z

Arthouse/One Sings the Other Doesn't (L'Une Chante L'Autre Pas)_Agnes Varda_1977.avi

There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La Pointe Courte (a government inspector's visit, the death of a child) alternate with others following a couple - He is from La Pointe Courte, she is Parisian - coming to terms with their changing relationship.

2020-08-14T12:27:01Z

At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.

2020-08-14T11:56:53Z

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.

United States of America, France

2020-08-09T17:53:34Z

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

2020-08-14T12:37:45Z

Arthouse/Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi)_Agnès Varda_1985.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Arthouse/Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi)_Agnès Varda_1985.avi

Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans

A recital becomes part of the French culture; 25 years later the performers return to the village where it was first launched.

2020-08-14T12:25:42Z

Documentary/The Young Girls Turn 25 (Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans)_Agnès Varda_1993.avi

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

ARTE France Cinéma

2021-06-17T15:19:51Z

Documentary/Faces Places (Visages Villages)_Agnes Varda_2017.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Documentary/Visages Villages (Faces Places)_Agnes Varda, J.R._2017.mkv

Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden

2020-07-26T21:36:15Z

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

T.E.M. Productores S.A.

2020-07-25T16:46:40Z

The group's "Trances" are our equivalent of "soul music", our irrationality. I followed the example of the Nass El Ghiwane themselves: I went back to the roots. They draw their music from the last thousand years of Moroccan and African history. the film sets out to reveal and emphasize this heritage. I chose the music of the Saharan brotherhood, The Gnawas, and the verses of the famous poet El Mejdoub, to underline the trances

2020-11-19T21:12:41Z

An exodus to a better life in Eira

Villealfa Filmproductions

2020-07-26T20:51:58Z

Aki Kaurismäki, Lars von Trier, Alejandro González Iñárritu, David Cronenberg, Zhang Yimou, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Wim Wenders, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, David Lynch, Walter Salles, Theo Angelopoulos, Jane Campion, Michael Cimino, Wong Kar-wai, Ken Loach, Claude Lelouch, Bille August, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Chen Kaige, Olivier Assayas, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Raymond Depardon, Andrei Konchalovsky, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nanni Moretti, Tsai Ming-liang, Manoel de Oliveira, Abbas Kiarostami, Raúl Ruiz, Elia Suleiman

Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.

2021-06-23T02:35:41Z

Arthouse/To Each His Own Cinema_Various Directors_2007.mkv, /home/jmichaeleugenio/mnt/light/Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/To Each His Own Cinema_Various Directors_2007.mkv

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

2021-08-28T23:09:22Z

Hollywood／Industry/The Bad Sleep Well_Akira Kurosawa_1960.mkv

A wealthy businessman is told his son has been kidnapped and he will have to pay a very large sum for him to be returned safely. It is then discovered that his son is safe at home: the kidnapper took his chauffeur's son by accident. The kidnapper says this makes no difference: pay up or the child dies. This leaves him with a moral dilemma, as he really needs the money to conclude a very important business deal.

2018-08-12T15:20:15Z

Hollywood／Industry/High And Low_Akira Kurosawa_1963.mkv

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.

2017-07-04T08:14:34Z

Hollywood／Industry/I Live in Fear_Akira Kurosawa_1955.mkv

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.

2018-08-12T15:07:10Z

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

2021-06-23T03:21:49Z

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto. Years go by as she is courted by two of her father's former students; one a fiery leftist, the other more moderate and equable.

2018-08-12T14:51:05Z

Hollywood／Industry/No Regrets For Our Youth_Akira Kurosawa_1946.avi

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.

2018-08-12T14:53:53Z

Hollywood／Industry/One Wonderful Sunday_Akira Kurosawa_1947.avi

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

2018-08-12T14:58:18Z

Hollywood／Industry/The Quiet Duel_Akira Kurosawa_1949.mkv

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

2021-03-10T17:44:02Z

Hollywood／Industry/Ran - Behind the Scenes_Akira Kurosawa_1985.mp4

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

2021-06-23T03:19:29Z

Hollywood／Industry/Rashomon_Akira Kurosawa_1950.mkv

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

2018-08-12T15:21:48Z

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

2018-09-29T21:03:33Z

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

2018-08-12T15:05:17Z

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him. As the samurai teach the peasants how to defend themselves, the village is attacked by an army of bandits.

2020-07-26T21:34:15Z

Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective, Sato. Together they track the culprit.

2018-08-12T14:56:47Z

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

2018-08-12T15:18:31Z

Hollywood／Industry/Throne Of Blood_Akira Kurosawa_1957.mkv

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

2018-09-29T21:01:30Z

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.

United States of America

Apollo Associates

2022-09-18T04:25:22Z

Spotlight: Heaven’s Gate Spiritual Growth Kit/PERMITTED/For All Mankind_Al Reinert_1989.mkv

This documentary is featured on the 2-Disc Chaplin Collection DVD for The Kid (1921), released in 2004.

2021-03-10T03:45:01Z

Spotlight: Abbas Kiarostami/Chaplin Today - The Kid_Alain Bergala_2003.mp4

Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.

Les films du Worso

2022-07-15T12:02:41Z

Hiroshima mon amour

A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future.

Pathé Entertainment

2020-09-08T10:31:15Z

Arthouse/Hiroshima, My Love (Hiroshima mon amour)_Alain Resnais_1959.mkv

Glissements progressifs du plaisir

A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora.

2020-12-16T22:03:54Z

Spotlight: Isabelle Huppert/Successive Slidings of Pleasure (Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir )_Alain Robbe-Grillet_1974.mkv

Dans la ville blanche

A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship "a floating factory of crazy people." He rents a room and does little. He writes letters to his lover, describing the whiteness of the city, the solitude and the silence. He sends his love and emptiness; she replies with love and confusion. He sends movies from his 8mm camera. Then he becomes friendly with Rosa, a chambermaid, and soon it's a love affair. He continues to send letters and movies home. His Swiss lover is hurt and angry; she sends an ultimatum.

Portugal, Switzerland

2022-09-12T13:55:09Z

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.

France, Switzerland

2022-09-12T13:54:50Z

Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they're writing a teleplay about a minor but curious event in which either her uncle was wounded while cleaning his rifle or she shot him. Pierre is a free-lance journalist hired to write the script; he's short of time so he asks a Bohemian novelist friend, Paul, to help. Pierre wants facts and tracks down Rosemonde for interviews that lead to other explorations; Paul only wants to imagine her and needs little more than her name to do so. But he does meet her, and she entangles him, too. Did she cause the shooting? Is she venomous or innocent?

2022-09-12T14:03:40Z

Arthouse/The Salamander (La Salamandre)_Alain Tanner_1971.mkv

Benny and his wife Ruthie a getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russel. While Russel doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.

United States of America

2022-02-03T17:03:33Z

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent.

2020-07-25T16:31:28Z

A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.

BBC Northern Ireland

2020-07-25T16:31:21Z

After being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.

2021-11-12T21:37:47Z

Hollywood／Industry/Made in Britain_Alan Clarke_1982.mp4

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

2021-01-11T02:48:33Z