In 1969 the world's greatest opera diva Maria Callas made her first and only venture into the world of film when she played the lead role in Marxist director Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea.

Together Pasolini and Callas created a hypnotic cinematic experience and a powerful ideological tale of the clash of two cultures.

The love story of an actor couple in Berlin 1968, looking for a new sense of life, relationships and work.
Renowned German director Helma Sanders-Brahms made her feature-film debut with this potent drama about a politically motivated couple who struggle in the calm that followed the student rebellions and demonstrations of the late 1960s.

Solitary misfit Michel (Martin Lasalle) has decided to try his hand at picking pockets, but gets caught after his very first attempt - only to be released by the chief inspector (Jean Pelegri) for lack of evidence. Reluctant to visit his dying mother despite the encouragement of her young neighbour Jeanne (Marika Green) and his own sometime friend Jacques (Pierre Leymarie), Michel is drawn back to lifting wallets on trains, eventually gravitating towards a more experienced pickpocket (Kassagi) with whom he soon forms a skilled team. Yet as their operations grow more elaborate, so does Michel's need for greater risk and his apparent desire, however conflicted, to get caught.

Yazi Tura (Toss Up) is the film of two stories taking place in 1999. Stories of two young men… One is "Ridvan the Devil", a young football player from Central Anatolia, Cappadocia / Goreme, and the "Cevher the Ghost", a young man who is living with his father in Istanbul. Both went to the army together, and fought in the Eastern Anatolia. Both had dreams and expectations for their civil lives back home. After their military service Ridvan goes back to his village with his right leg missing, the leg that he would score goals with, due to a mine explotion. Neither his fiancée nor his friends treat him the way before. What Ridvan has been through during the war actually brings him down with time. In the same mine explosion Cevher also lost his hearing ability of his right ear, but he is going to go through a greater change after he rescues his father from the wreckage of the Marmara Earthquake.

Belgian director Sam Garbarski assembles an international cast for this thought-provoking drama. Iconic singer and actress Marianne Faithfull stars as Maggie, a middle-aged woman whose desire to pay for her sick grandson's operation takes her down a path she never would have imagined. When she responds to an ad for a "hostess," Maggie soon realizes that she'll be working to fulfill men's physical desires and takes on the appropriate name "Irina Palm." Emir Kusturica favorite Miki Manojlovic costars in this film that played at the Berlin International Film Festival.

This is England: Mods, New Romantics, and Skinheads are the major youth sub-cultures of this very English summer of 1983 and young 12-year-old Shaun is left wandering aimlessly alone and lost during the start of his school holidays, until his chance meeting with Woody and his fun and friendly Skinhead pack. Finding a new lease of life; girls, parties, Ben Sherman shirts, Doc Martin boots and shaven hairstyles young Shaun is welcomed, life during this summer holiday has got a whole lot better. That is until Combo arrives on the scene bitter, dangerous, racist, militant and psychotic life for young Shaun has just approached his first major crossroads.

Bjork and Catherine Deneuve in an excellent performance as Selma and Gean, two factory worker who are good friends but have very different lives. I will upload the other two films of Lars van Trier's "Golden Heart Trilogy" soon.

Under the pressure of the Yuan Kingdom, the King of Goryeo is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. But the king is in love with his loyal general Hong-lim. After seriously pondering the issue, the king asks his lover Hong-lim to sleep with the Queen, with unexpected consequences.

Marie, a happily married wife of Jean for 25 years is a professor of English literature in a Paris university. During their summer vacation in the southwest of France, Jean goes to swim in the sea while his wife is sunbathing and never returns, vanishing without a trace. No body is found and she raises questions. Has he left her? Committed suicide? Drowned? With no body to mourn over she pretends that he is still alive as her life becomes increasingly drowned in enigmatic complexity and emotional disorientation.

Nothing but the Truth parallels the case of Valerie Plame, whose status as a CIA agent was exposed in the media after her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a New York Times op-ed piece charging the Bush administration with manipulating intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

A mother and her infant daughter are vacationing at a lonely seaside resort. As they doze on the beach, backpacker Tatiana silently watches them from a cliff top and soon the trouble begins. See the Sea is all the creepier because it never leaves the realm of reality. Director François Ozon is beautifully restrained–he keeps the tension rising without ever going overboard or driving his characters into caricature. It's the tiny things that Tatiana does that give you the shivers.

One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters?

Rebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father's control, she runs away by diving off the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York…..

With his deliriously rich fourth feature, François Ozon (See The Sea, Under The Sand, 8 Women) tackles the legacy of the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder in fascinating ways, even as he refines his own distinctive voice. This brilliantly acted film is alternately tender and sardonic, visually opulent yet claustrophobic, and wise beyond its years.

4 Documentaries about the film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, plus interviews with Juliane Lorenz (Fassbinder's editor), Xaver Schwarzenberger (Fassbinder's cinematographer), and Stars and staff of his films. 1) Ich Will Nicht Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt (1993); 2) Lebenslaufe [Live Stories: A Conversation with R. W. Fassbinder] (1978); 3) Editing with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2003); 4) The Chance of a Life Time (2003).