 | Barfly [Read More ...]
Description: The script for this movie was written by outrageous poet-author-alcoholic Charles Bukowski. But director Barbet Schroeder makes it into an oddly amusing story of a pugnacious drunk writer (Mickey Rourke) based on Bukowski himself. Rourke spends almost all of his time at the bar, ... |
 | General Idi Amin Dada [Read More ...]
Description: From 1971-1979 over 300,000 people were put to death at the behest of Uganda's horrifyingly charismatic dictator: General Idi Amin Dada. With more than a touch of cynical creativity, director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly, More) uses an accordion soundtrack performed by Idi Amin, and... |
 | Single White Female [Read More ...]
Description: You can take this 1992 thriller one of two ways: it's either a highly suspenseful movie about an unfortunate young woman's psychological breakdown, or it's a glossy slasher movie starring two of Hollywood's best young actresses. Or maybe it's both at the same time--or perhaps it'... |
 | Kiss of Death [Read More ...]
Description: This remake of a 1947 film noir casts David Caruso (freshly escaped from TV's NYPD Blue) in the role originally played by Victor Mature. He plays Jimmy Kilmartin, a reformed criminal struggling to keep straight and keep his wife (Helen Hunt) from going back to the bottle. But a f... |
 | Reversal of Fortune [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin. Director Barbet Schroeder, working from Nicholas Kazan's evocative, darkly humorous script, turns t... |
 | Murder by Numbers [Read More ...]
Description: The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California coastal town of San Benito. SANDRA BULLOCK ("Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," "Miss Congeniality"), stars as Cassie Mayweather, the seasoned homicide detective and crime scene specialist as... |
 | Maitresse [Read More ...]
Description: Drifter Olivier (Gérard Depardieu) lands in Paris and partners up on a friend's home invasion. Ostensibly they're breaking into the vacant flat of a vacationing old lady, but in reality it's the kinky dungeon of a high-class dominatrix with a powerful client list. The bearish... |
 | Desperate Measures (1998) [Read More ...]
Description: Michael Keaton does a credible impersonation of Hannibal Lecter in this far-fetched but pulse-quickening thriller about a cop (Andy Garcia) whose dying son needs a rare form of bone marrow possessed only by a death-row psychopath (Keaton). After agreeing to become a donor, the ki... |
 | Koko, A Talking Gorilla [Read More ...]
Description: At the center of a controversial experiment in interspecies communication is Koko, a talking gorilla. Since these experiments were first conducted at Stanford University, there have been numerous articles and public television programs based on the extraordinary gorilla taught t... |
 | Before & After [Read More ...]
Description: Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep play a couple going through a parents' nightmare: Their son (Edward Furlong) is accused of murdering a local girl. What's worse, he's gone into hiding, seeming to lend credence to the charges. Neeson, as a passionate, intuitive artist, tries to take m... |
 | Single White Female [Read More ...]
Description: You can take this 1992 thriller one of two ways: it's either a highly suspenseful movie about an unfortunate young woman's psychological breakdown, or it's a glossy slasher movie starring two of Hollywood's best young actresses. Or maybe it's both at the same time--or perhaps it'... |
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 | Murder By Numbers (Spanish) (Sub) [Read More ...]
Description: The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California coastal town of San Benito. SANDRA BULLOCK ("Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," "Miss Congeniality"), stars as Cassie Mayweather, the seasoned homicide detective and crime scene specialist as... |
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 | Tricheurs [Read More ...]
Description: Often exploring themes of addiction, sexual power games, and compulsive behavior, Barbet Schroeder's 1983 film Tricheurs is a powerfully impudent look into the world of some rather glamorous gambling addicts. In yet another fascinating role, Bulle Ogier (Discreet Charm of The Bo... |
 | More [Read More ...]
I wanted to be warm. I wanted the sun and I went after it." says Stefan as he begins his search for self by descending into the decadent pleasures of excess. Having graduated college he hitchhikes from Lnbeck, Germany to Paris, France where he finds the More |
 | La Vallee [Read More ...]
Description: Lush, sensual, and aurally hypnotic, this renowned cult classic from Barbet Schroeder (Barfly, Reversal of Fortune, More, Maitresse) was shot by the legendary Nestor Almendros, and scored by Pink Floyd. Set in the rainforest of New Guinea, a restless diplomat's wife, played by B... |
![]() | Murder by Numbers [Read More ...]
Description: While reinventing Leopold and Loeb for a new and troubled millennium, Murder by Numbers probes the disturbing psychology of two teenaged murderers and the cleverness of their crime. Like Hitchcock's Rope and other films inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case of the 1920s, the film... |
 | Reversal of Fortune (Spanish) (Sub) [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin. Director Barbet Schroeder, working from Nicholas Kazan's evocative, darkly humorous script, turns t... |
 | Maitresse [Read More ...]
Gérard Depardieu stars as Olivier, a restless young man searching for a new job. After unsuccessfully selling magazine subscriptions, he and his partner resort to burglary. What they thought was a wealthy landlady's apartment turns out to be the dungeon |
