Description: 1900-2021. Modern, neo-retro, film noir, comedy, classic Hollywood, early horror, experimental, navel gazing, New Wave, and art movies and shows - where the lack of color is a statement and cinematography is king. No links? Click on “Request Links here” on the page
Creator: asclepias
Posted: 4 years ago
|
|
Favorite
21 favorites
1800 views
|
|
info
|
Movie:
The French Dispatch
( 2021 )
Faced with the impending dissolution of The French Dispatch, a factual weekly report on various subjects, old-school editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr. assembles the crème de la crème of the magazine's loyal expatriate journalists for one final issue. Against the backdrop of picturesque Ennui-sur-Blasé, Paris, France, three main articles unfold, pivoting around tormented genius artists, statuesque prison officers, flamboyant critics, moody idealists, conflicted ace reporters, legendary chefs, and, of course, the police.
|
info
|
Movie:
Being the Ricardos
( 2021 )
Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Tragedy of Macbeth
( 2022 )
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Lighthouse
( 2019 )
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
|
info
|
Movie:
Belfast
( 2021 )
Belfast, 15 August 1969. Surrounded by sporadic violence and growing danger, nine-year-old Buddy finds himself confronted with the ugly reality of sectarian conflict. And, as the suffocating stranglehold of increasing turmoil tightens around his once-peaceful working-class neighbourhood, Buddy tries his best to understand The Troubles--after all, someone must be responsible for forcing people to flee their homes. Now, Buddy's family must come face to face with a nearly impossible, life-altering decision: stay or start packing?
|
info
|
Movie:
Schindler's List
( 1993 )
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sin City
( 2005 )
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
|
info
|
Movie:
Mank
( 2020 )
1940. Film studio RKO hires 24-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles under a contract that gives him full creative control of his movies. For his first film, he calls in washed-up alcoholic Herman J Mankiewicz to write the screenplay. That film is "Citizen Kane," and this is the story of how it was written.
|
info
|
Movie:
C'mon C'mon
( 2021 )
When his sister asks him to look after her son, a radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his energetic nephew to show him life away from Los Angeles.
|
info
|
Movie:
Casablanca
( 1942 )
A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.
|
info
|
Movie:
Passing
( 2021 )
"Passing" follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
|
info
|
Movie:
12 Angry Men
( 1957 )
A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.
|
info
|
Movie:
Seven Samurai
( 1954 )
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
|
info
|
Movie:
Raging Bull
( 1980 )
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, who's violence and temper that lead him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
|
info
|
Movie:
Psycho
( 1960 )
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
|
info
|
Movie:
The White Ribbon
( 2010 )
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
|
info
|
Movie:
Citizen Kane
( 1941 )
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud". The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world.
|
info
|
|
info
|
Movie:
Pi
( 1998 )
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
|
info
|
Movie:
Malcolm & Marie
( 2021 )
A filmmaker returns home with his girlfriend following a celebratory movie premiere as he awaits what's sure to be imminent critical and financial success. The evening suddenly takes a turn as revelations about their relationships begin to surface, testing the strength of their love.
|
info
|
Movie:
Clerks
( 1994 )
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
|
info
|
TV Show:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
( 1962 )
Previously Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the series expanded to an hour. Master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock introduces and concludes tales of suspense and crime. Hitchcock's speeches are filled with black humor and jabs at his network sponsors.
|
info
|
Movie:
8½
( 1963 )
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
|
info
|
Movie:
Pleasantville
( 1998 )
Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.
|
info
|
Movie:
Some Like It Hot
( 1959 )
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
|
info
|
Movie:
Gunda
( 2021 )
Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Seventh Seal
( 1958 )
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
|
info
|
Movie:
Roma
( 2018 )
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
|
info
|
Movie:
In the Soup
( 1992 )
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.
|
info
|
Movie:
Metropolis
( 1927 )
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
|
info
|
Movie:
Frankenweenie
( 2012 )
When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.
|
info
|
Movie:
Eraserhead
( 1978 )
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Elephant Man
( 1980 )
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
|
info
|
Movie:
Dead Man
( 1995 )
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
|
info
|
Movie:
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
( 2015 )
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
|
info
|
Movie:
Notorious
( 1946 )
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
|
info
|
Movie:
Paths of Glory
( 1957 )
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
|
info
|
Movie:
Ed Wood
( 1994 )
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of talent.
|
info
|
Movie:
Wings of Desire
( 1987 )
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Third Man
( 1949 )
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
|
info
|
Movie:
Hard to Be a God
( 2014 )
In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like, planet.
|
info
|
Movie:
Nosferatu
( 1922 )
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
|
info
|
|
info
|
Movie:
Freaks
( 1932 )
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
|
info
|
Movie:
M
( 1931 )
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
|
info
|
Movie:
A Field in England
( 2013 )
Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
|
info
|
Movie:
Rashomon
( 1950 )
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
|
info
|
Movie:
Annie Hall
( 1977 )
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York City stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Man Who Wasn't There
( 2001 )
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
|
info
|
Movie:
Cold War
( 2018 )
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Hustler
( 1961 )
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
|
info
|
TV Show:
She's Gotta Have It
( 2017 )
She's Gotta Have It centers on Nola Darling, a Brooklyn-based artist in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time amongst her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
( 1962 )
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
|
info
|
Movie:
Time
( 2020 )
Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation. Combining the video diaries Fox has recorded for Rob over the years with intimate glimpses of her present-day life, director Garrett Bradley paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience and radical love necessary to prevail over the endless separations of the country's prison-industrial complex.
|
info
|
Movie:
Persona
( 1967 )
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
|
info
|
Movie:
Frances Ha
( 2013 )
A New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment) apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer) and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles.
|
info
|
Movie:
On the Waterfront
( 1954 )
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
|
info
|
Movie:
Strangers on a Train
( 1951 )
Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings.
|
info
|
Movie:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
( 1956 )
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
|
info
|
Movie:
Angel-A
( 2005 )
A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Manchurian Candidate
( 1962 )
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
|
info
|
Movie:
Manhattan
( 1979 )
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Grapes of Wrath
( 1940 )
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
|
info
|
Movie:
Nebraska
( 2013 )
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
|
info
|
Movie:
Häxan
( 1929 )
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film depicts the history of witchcraft from its earliest days through to the present day (in this case,1922 or thereabouts). The result is a documentary-like film that must be among the first to use re-enactments as a visual and narrative tool. From pagan worship to satanic rites to hysteria, the film takes you on a journey through the ages with highly effective visual sequences.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Night of the Hunter
( 1955 )
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sunset Blvd.
( 1950 )
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
|
info
|
Movie:
Kafka
( 1991 )
Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.
|
info
|
Movie:
Persepolis
( 2007 )
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
|
info
|
Movie:
Rumble Fish
( 1983 )
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Artist
( 2012 )
Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is inspired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down.
|
info
|
Movie:
Following
( 1999 )
A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Last Picture Show
( 1971 )
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
|
info
|
Movie:
Polytechnique
( 2017 )
-A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 (in Canada), where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
|
info
|
Movie:
Bicycle Thieves
( 1949 )
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
|
info
|
Movie:
Modern Times
( 1936 )
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
|
info
|
Movie:
Control
( 2007 )
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
|
info
|
Movie:
Tetsuo
( 1989 )
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Train
( 1964 )
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
|
info
|
Movie:
Embrace of the Serpent
( 2015 )
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
|
info
|
Movie:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
( 1966 )
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Innocents
( 1961 )
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
|
info
|
Movie:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
( 1982 )
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut.
|
info
|
Movie:
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters
( 2008 )
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
|
info
|
Movie:
La Jetée
( 1962 )
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
|
info
|
Movie:
Eyes Without a Face
( 1960 )
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face.
|
info
|
|
info
|
Movie:
Last Year at Marienbad
( 1961 )
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
|
info
|
Movie:
Down by Law
( 1986 )
Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.
|
info
|
Movie:
Vampyr
( 1934 )
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
|
info
|
Movie:
Satantango
( 1994 )
On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the village.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Turin Horse
( 2011 )
A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
|
info
|
Movie:
Hour of the Wolf
( 1968 )
While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sword of Vengeance
( 2015 )
Vengeance is the driving force behind a shadow walker's return to Norman conquered Saxon lands after the Battle of Hastings and a brutal repression of it's people by a cruel lord.
|
info
|
Movie:
Coffee and Cigarettes
( 2004 )
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
|
info
|
Movie:
Steamboat Willie
( 1929 )
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
|
info
|
Movie:
Wuthering Heights
( 1939 )
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveller the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
|
info
|
Movie:
Zelig
( 1983 )
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Man Who Laughs
( 1928 )
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
|
info
|
Movie:
Footlight Parade
( 1933 )
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
|
|
SheWatches : Was going to try to wait until it was out on HD but the CAM was good enough and I really w...