Paradise 1982

Paradise 1982

Paradise 1982

Paradise 1982
1h 40m | Adventure, Romance | Release date: May 7, 1982 (Canada)

Storyline:

In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah narrowly escape, and all the others are slayed in the massacre. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis – their paradise – where they discover love and sex. However, the Jackal has not given up on Sarah yet, and David must lure him to his death, or be killed by him.

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Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000

Keep The River On Your Right 2000
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (original title)
1h 33m | Documentary, Adventure, Romance | Release date: April 15, 2000 (United States)

Storyline:

In 1955, while a Fulbright scholar, a Manhattan painter named Tobias Schneebaum spent seven months in the Amazon basin with the Harakambut. When he returned to the US, he could no longer paint. What happened? Nearly 45 years later, filmmakers want Tobias, now 78 and suffering from Parkinson’s, to return to Peru. He refuses but allows that he will revisit the Asmat in New Guinea where he spent an idyllic time years before. That trip goes well, including a serendipitous meeting with Aipit, an aging native and once Tobias’ friend and lover. Tobias then agrees to go to Peru to look for the people whom he joined on a murderous raiding party. The scars of war remain as does fear.

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Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)

Storyline:

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.

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About Us 2017

About Us 2017

About Us 2017

About Us 2017
Sobre Nós (original title)
1h 10m | Drama, Romance | Release date: 2017 (Brazil)

Storyline:

Diego had to leave his hometown in Brazil to attend a film school in California for 4 years. He also had to leave everything he had ever loved behind including Matheus, a handsome young man with whom he felt in love and shared passionate moments with. Ten years later, back in Brazil, he decides to make a film about their relationship. This biopic shows how passion can increase people’s motivation in life, but also shows how making choices can be cruel for passion.

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Strange Way of Life 2023

Strange Way of Life 2023

Strange Way of Life 2023

Strange Way of Life 2023
31m | Short, Drama, Western | Release date: May 26, 2023 (Spain)

Storyline:

After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.

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Sexo, Sua Única Arma 1981

Sexo, Sua Única Arma 1981

Sexo, Sua Única Arma 1981

Sexo, Sua Única Arma 1981
1h 33m | Drama | Release date: February 24, 1981 (Brazil)

Storyline:

Marta’s father, when she was still a child, killed himself for having been harmed in his business by his partner Humberto, a producer of grapes and wine. Twenty years later, pretending to be blind, Marta befriends Humberto, who invites her to spend a few days with her family.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
2h 23m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: March 30, 1984 (United States)

Storyline:

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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Lupu 2013

Lupu 2013

Lupu 2013

Lupu 2013
1h 17m | Drama | Release date: October 4, 2013 (Romania)

Storyline:

Wolf is a lonely boy who surrounds himself by a world that responds to his desires. He brings Clara, the girl he loves, inside this world but when he can’t be sure if she is still real or become imaginary he feels trapped and wants to escape.

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Servants 2020

Servants 2020

Servants 2020

Servants 2020
Sluzobníci (original title)
1h 20m | Drama | Release date: March 2020 (Czech Republic)

Storyline:

The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give into the temptation and choose the easier way of collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police.

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