Hungary | 2006 | Directed by György Pálfi Logline: Three generations of dysfunctional men; a lusty, flame-sucking soldier, an obese, champion extreme eater, and a ratty embalmer on an artful perversion. The themes of copulation, consumption and preservation are studied in perverse, visceral and controversial detail in one of the most outlandish and exceptional tales [...]
Australia | 1996 | Directed by Megan Simpson Huberman Logline: A couple struggling to make a relationship work wake up one morning to find each trapped in the other’s body and the struggle to relate to friends and work becomes a comedic nightmare. This is the kind of comedy Hollywood would never make. They dabble [...]
New Zealand | 1981 | Directed by Mike Newell Logline: The true story of Stanley Graham, a poor farmer, who shot dead seven men during a WWII arms surrender, then hid in the surrounding bush land, whilst a manhunt was launched. Despite the B-movie title this is a highly competent production with a compelling narrative [...]
USA | 1978 | Directed by John Carpenter Logline: An escaped psychopath returns to his childhood neighbourhood, terrorising and killing several people whilst his doctor desperately tries to warn the local sheriff of the killer’s intent. “Black Cats and Goblins and Broomsticks and Ghosts Covens of Witches with All of Their Hopes, You May Think [...]
Brazil | 2005 | Directed by Andrucha Waddington Logline: The plight of a woman, and her feisty daughter, over the span of nearly sixty years, as she tries in vain to adapt to a life in a desolate landscape of shifting sand dunes. This is a stunningly realised character study of mother and daughter, juxtaposed [...]
UK | 2009 | Directed by Duncan Jones Logline: A harvesting contractor who is working alone on the moon, and keen to return to his wife and baby daughter, is badly injured, so the earth-based company tries to rectify the situation, but a glitch has occurred with alarming results. Moon joins the ranks of District [...]
USA | 1982 | Directed by John Carpenter Logline: A scientific research station in the Antarctic is infiltrated by a xenomorphic alien life-form that steadily consumes and imitates each member. John Carpenter’s brilliant remake of Howard Hawk’s B-movie The Thing From Another World (1951) is without a doubt one of the greatest modern horrors ever [...]
Hong Kong | 1995 | Directed by Wong Kar-wai Logline: In an urban nightscape the lives of a contract killer and his agent working at a distance, a drifter searching for her ex-lover, and an eccentric mute vying for attention in outlandish ways, all cross paths. Amidst the big neon glitter, the cluttered, claustrophobic alleyways, [...]
Italy/France | 1973 | Directed by Marco Ferreri Logline: Four wealthy and successful middle-aged men, in contempt of their lifestyles, move into a plush villa and proceed to overeat until they expire. There’s not a straight forward translation for this exceptionally uncompromising display of gastronomic, erotically perverse and scatological self-indulgence. In Italy it is called [...]
“My films deal with a stylized, expressionistic world that has a kind of grotesque beauty about it.” Brian De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey, USA, on September 11th, 1940 to Italian-American parents. Citizen Kane was one of several movies that had a profound impact on him and he subsequently changed his university major [...]
USA | 1995 | directed by Abel Ferrara Logline: After a brilliant philosophy student is accosted and bitten on the neck by a strange woman she struggles to understand the ethical complications of her affliction with the bloodlust of the addiction. This is the vampire tale for the intellectually-anemic; soul food for the hungry undead. [...]
UK | 1986 | Directed by Bruce Robinson Logline: It’s 1969 and two disheveled, unemployed London actors decide to spend a rejuvenating weekend in the country only to have their escapade turn into a series of embarrassing incidents and disasters. Quite frankly I think Bruce Robinson’s semi-autobiographical yarn is one of a rare handful of [...]
USA | 1986 | Directed by Jim Jarmusch Logline: When three mischievous strangers find themselves sharing the same jail cell after each being set-up, framed or simply acting in self-defence, they escape into the wilderness of the Louisiana everglades. Maverick indie auteur Jim Jarmusch hit the nail of bittersweet irony squarely and beautifully on the [...]
USA | 1985 | Directed by William Friedkin Logline: A Federal Secret Service Treasury agent becomes recklessly obsessed with bringing a dangerous counterfeiter to justice after the criminal has his older agent partner murdered. This was the quintessential 80s cop thriller; fast-paced, action-packed, violent, and profane, but more importantly, unpredictable, uncompromising, and that Wang Chung [...]
USA | 2008 | Directed by Darren Aronofsky Logline: A middle-aged professional wrestler struggling with drug addiction, thankless gigs, and being estranged from his daughter, is told to retire by his doctor, yet he’s reluctant to throw in the towel. This was the comeback gig that touched Hollywood’s heart, but not quite enough to win [...]
New Zealand | 2009 | Directed by Neill Blomkamp Logline: An extraterrestrial race marooned on Earth and forced to live in slum-like conditions suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent after he is infected by their advanced biotechnology. Taking inspiration from the segregation of Alien Nation, elements of transmogrification from David Cronenberg’s The [...]
USA | 2006/2008 | Directed by Bill Corben Loglines: The true story of the smugglers and law enforcement in Miami, Florida, which became the cocaine capital of the world during the 70s and 80s/The true story of a Californian street kid who, during the 90s, became the right hand man to the cocaine queen who [...]
Soviet Union | 1972 | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Logline: A psychologist is sent to a space station operating above the sentient oceanic planet Solaris to investigate the strange behaviour of its remaining two scientists, and is bewildered when he is visited by his wife, who committed suicide years earlier. One of the most philosophical, [...]
USA | 1983 | Directed by Brian DePalma Logline: The rise of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who becomes an immensely wealthy, powerful and ruthless drug lord in Miami, Florida during the early 1980s, but falls prey to greed, paranoia and betrayal. Along with Coppola’s The Godfather (parts one & two) and Scorsese’s Goodfellas, this [...]
USA | 1996 | Directed by Doug Liman Logline: An aspiring NYC comedian based in LA, pining for his ex-girlfriend, struggles to get back into the dating scene with the help of his buddy, a cocky ladies man. With a killer script by co-producer and star Jon Favreau Swingers is the ultimate debunking of male [...]
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