Left-Handed Fate - Fata/Morgana - (1966)

The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny.

Director: Vicente Aranda. 

Stars: Teresa Gimpera, Marianne Benet, Marcos Martí, Antonio Ferrandis, Alberto Dalbés, Antonio Casas, Glòria Roig, Francisco Álvarez, Juan Sellás, Antonio Oliver, José Medina, José María Seada, Josep Castillo Escalona, Manuel Muñiz, Nuria Picas, Antonio Gudet.

Subtitles: English

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2532507781798

Harem Suare (1999)

As the Ottoman Empire comes to an end, an old servant spins a tale to keep the women in the Sultan’s harem distracted. The story is about Safiye, who first becomes the Sultan’s favorite concubine, and later the official wife. As she gains power and influence, she engages in a tryst with Nadir, the black eunuch. When the Empire falls, the Sultan escapes to Europe, leaving all the concubines behind. Safiye fights for their rights under the new order…

Director: Ferzan Özpetek.

Stars: Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucía Bosé, Valeria Golino, Malick Bowens, Christophe Aquillon, Serra Yilmaz, Haluk Bilginer, Pelin Batu.

A Turkey, Italian, French co-production

1999 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award.

Subtitles in English.

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/2544039430822

The Copper Tower - (Medenáa Veza) - 1970

The Copper Tower is a story of adventure and romance evolving around three male fiends and a woman, set against the background of the magnificent High Tatras mountains in Northern Slovakia . The three friends work at a mountain hostel during the summer season. Their careless and sometimes rough bachelor life changes with the arrival of a pretty, young student. Clearcut relations become entangled and lead up to a tragic ending.

A movie from former Czechoslovakia

Director: Martin Hollý.

Writer: Ivan Bukovcan.

Stars: Stefan Kvietik, Emília Vásáryová, Ivan Rajniak, Ivan Mistrík, Michal Docolomanský, Vlado Müller, Slavo Drozd, Alena Skokanová, Július Vasek.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10142983654054

The Games of Countess Dolingen - Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz - (1981)

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmatic spouse who prepares a surprise for a burglar.

Director: Catherine Binet. 

Writers: Catherine Binet, Bram Stoker (short story “Dracula’s Guest”), Unica Zürn (novel).

Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Carol Kane, Katia Wastchenko, Marina Vlady , Emmanuelle Riva, Roberto Plate, Marilu Marini, Robert Stephens, Marucha Bo, Antoine Binet, Raoul Escari, Tobie Schumer, Carine Toly, Nathalie Goldnadel, François Mouren-Provensal. 

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2610668702374

The Arrival of Joachim Stiller - De komst van Joachim Stiller - (1976)

The film tells the story of Freek Groenevelt and Simone Marijnissen whose lives are taken over by Joachim Stiller. He’s a bizarre character who influences Freek and Simone’s lives in different ways.

Director: Harry Kümel.

Stars: Hugo Metsers, Cox Habbema, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Charles Janssens, Dora van der Groen, Joan Remmelts, Gaston Vandermeulen, Ward de Ravet, Anton Peters, Alex Wilequet, Bert André, Chris Boni, Joris Collet, Nini De Boël, Jo De Meyere. 

While Freek Groenevelt waits in front of the city hall till the rain stops, Hubert Lampo - the writer of the novel - stands next to him.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2607547681446

80 Hussars - 80 huszár - (1978)

The film tells the true story of the Lenkey-Hussar battalion. It depicts naturally the obsessed and ill-weighed assertion of home sickness and patriotism thus revoking the memory of 1848. Obeying the pressure of the Empire the Hussar regiment of Paál Farkas and his companions has to be stationed in a small Polish town. Upon receiving the news on the revolution and freedom fight in Hungary, the Hussar Korsós attempts to desert.

Director: Sándor Sára. 

Stars: László Dózsa, György Cserhalmi, Jácint Juhász, József Madaras, Géza Tordy, Sándor Szabó, Gábor Csíkos, László Czikély, György ifj. Gonda, Sándor Kátó, Lajos Kovács, Zsolt Körtvélyessy, Sándor Oszter, Ferenc Paláncz, Tibor Patassy, Géza Polgár,István Szilágyi, Zoltán Vadász, László Áron.

Subtitled in English.

LINK : https://ok.ru/video/10046016588454

A Gentle Woman - Une femme douce - (Robert Bresson, 1969)

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.

Dominique Sanda's debut. It was shortly after the release of this movie that she went from being Dominique Varaigne to Dominique Sanda. In a 1987 interview with a French publication, she explained, "Only a few things can give you as much pleasure as choosing your own name."

Director

Robert Bresson

Writers

Fyodor Dostoevsky (short story), adapted by Robert Bresson

Stars

Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10870259518118

Martyrs of Love - Mučedníci lásky (1966)

Featuring pop stars Karel Gott and Marta Kubišová (who later became the director’s second wife) in lead roles, with cameos by the two girls from Chytilová’s Daisies and director Lindsay Anderson as traffic policeman, Martyrs of Love is the most perfect embodiment of Němec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. The nearly dialogue-free music comedy about three timid lovers, which combines aesthetics of 1920s silent slapstick cinema with romantic music of the 1960s, cemented the director’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

A movie from former Czechoslovakia

Director: Jan Nemec. 

Writers: Ester Krumbachová, Jan Nemec.

Stars: Petr Kopriva, Marta Kubisová, Hana Kuberová, Jan Klusák, Karel Gott, Vladimír Preclík.

Subtitled in English

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10746953927334

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Shoot the Moon ( Alan Parker, 1982)

A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He’s preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.

Director: Alan Parker.

Writer: Bo Goldman.

Stars: Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill, Viveka Davis, Tracey Gold, Tina Yothers, George Murdock, Leora Dana, Irving Metzman, Kenneth Kimmins, Michael Alldredge, Robert Constanzo, David Landsberg, Lou Cutell, James Cranna, Nancy Fish, Jeremy Schoenberg, Aesop Aquarian, Jim Lange, Georgann Johnson O-Lan Jones, Helen Slayton-Hughes, Robert Ackerman, Eucine Suarez, Hector Morales, Morgan Upton, Edwina Moore, Kathryn Trask, Bill Reddick, Bonnie Carpenter, Margaret Clark, Jan Dunn, Rob Glover.

1982 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

1983 BAFTA Film Awards – Nominated for Best Actor (Albert Finney).

1983 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Diane Keaton).

1983 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Albert Finney).

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/10607016086132

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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York ( Sidney Furie, 1975)

Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate. Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one-night stand…

Director: Sidney J. Furie.

Writers: Kenny Solms, Gail Parent (novel).

Stars: Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Rebecca Dianna Smith, Janet Brandt, Sid Melton, Charles Woolf, Leda Rogers, Jack Bernardi, Allen Secher, Lynne Pope, Jon Miller, Noble Willingham, Richard Rasof, Evelyn Russell, Don Carrara, Sharon Chatten, Karen Anders, Craig Littler, Sandy Helberg, John Morgan Evans, Charles Walker.

Music by: Michel Legrand.

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/10868657752742

Optional English subtitles are available. To enable them click on the subtitles icon (to the left of the cogweel icon), and they will be turned on.