Any Number Can Win - Mélodie en sous-sol - (Henri Verneuil, 1963)

Charles, a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino. Bad luck and Francis’s lack of professionalism set the caper maddeningly askew, and the stolen cash resurfaces in an unexpected manner.

Director: Henri Verneuil

Writers: Michel Audiard (dialogue), Zekial Marko (novel) (as John Trinian), Albert Simonin (adaptation).

Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval, Viviane Romance, Henri Virlojeux, Jean Carmet, José Luis de Vilallonga, Jimmy Davis, Rita Cadillac, Dominique Davray, Dora Doll, Germaine Montero, Maurice Biraud, Carla Marlier. 

Subs: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2596910008998

Taboo - Gohatto - (Nagisa Oshima, 1999)

The young and handsome Kano Sozaburo is admitted to the Shinsengumi, an elite samurai group that seeks to defend the Tokugawa shogunate against reformist forces. Kano is a skilled swordsman, but his physical beauty leads the members of the strictly male group to compete for his affections, generating tensions that threaten to become lethal. In Gohatto, Nagisa Oshima explores the ambiguous forms of masculinity that the samurai code concealed, with a terrific cast including Ryuhei Matsuda, Takeshi Kitano and Tadanobu Asano subtly capturing the dangers of repressed homoerotic desire.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima.

Writers: Ryôtarô Shiba (novel), Nagisa Ôshima (screenplay).

Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Ryûhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Yôichi Sai, Jirô Sakagami, Kôji Matoba, Masa Tommies, Masatô Ibu, ZakoCinematographer: Toyomichi Kurita.

Music by: Ryuichi Sakamoto.

2000 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

Subtitles: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3667267291814

The Love Goddesses (1965) - Documentary

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses’ portrayal of sex from the silent-movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie “True Heart Susie,” starring Lillian Gish, to “Love Me Tonight” (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy) and to Elizabeth Taylor in “A Place in the Sun” (1951), plus many, many more.

Director: Saul J. Turell.

Writers: Graeme Ferguson, Saul J. Turell.

Stars: Loretta Andrews (archive footage), Agnes Ayres (archive footage), Theda Bara (archive footage), Brigitte Bardot (archive footage), Richard Barthelmess (archive footage), Billy Barty (archive footage), Ingrid Bergman (archive footage), Clara Bow (archive footage), Clive Brook (archive footage), Louise Brooks (archive footage), Horst Buchholz (archive footage), Maurice Chevalier (archive footage), Montgomery Clift (archive footage), Claudette Colbert (archive footage), Donald Cook (archive footage), Gary Cooper (archive footage), Joan Crawford (archive footage), Virginia Dabney (archive footage), Marion Davies (archive footage), Bette Davis (archive footage), Lya De Putti (archive footage), Marlene Dietrich (archive footage), Mildred Dixon (archive footage), Ruth Eddings (archive footage), Anita Ekberg (archive footage), Norman Foster (archive footage), Clark Gable (archive footage), Greta Garbo (archive footage), Ava Gardner (archive footage), John Gilbert (archive footage), Lilian Gish (archive footage), Louise Glaum (archive footage), June Glory (archive footage), Betty Grable (archive footage), Cary Grant (archive footage), Peggy Graves (archive footage), Jean Harlow (archive footage), Laurence Harvey (archive footage), Sessue Hayakawa (archive footage), Rita Hayworth (archive footage), Brigitte Helm (archive footage), Audrey Hepburn (archive footage), Ann Hovey (archive footage), Emil Jannings (archive footage), Ruby Keeler (archive footage), Annette Kellerman (archive footage), Deborah Kerr (archive footage), Henry Kolker (archive footage), Adele Lacy (archive footage), Hedy Lamarr (archive footage), Dorothy Lamour (archive footage), Margaret Lindsay (archive footage), Gina Lollobrigida (archive footage), Carole Lombard (archive footage), Sophia Loren (archive footage), Myrna Loy (archive footage), Jeanette MacDonald (archive footage), Jayne Mansfield (archive footage), Mae Marsh (archive footage), Herbert Marshall (archive footage), Adolphe Menjou (archive footage), Ray Milland (archive footage), Hayley Mills (archive footage), Marilyn Monroe (archive footage), Mae Murray (archive footage), Nita Naldi (archive footage), Pola Negri (archive footage), Pluma Noisom (archive footage), Gregory Peck (archive footage), Dick Powell (archive footage), Esther Ralston (archive footage), Donna Mae Roberts (archive footage), Ginger Rogers (archive footage), Heather Sears (archive footage), Jayne Shadduck (archive footage), Simone Signoret (archive footage), Barbara Stanwyck (archive footage), Gloria Swanson (archive footage), Sylvia Syms (archive footage), Elizabeth Taylor (archive footage), Shirley Temple (archive footage), Gene Tierney (archive footage), Lana Turner (archive footage), Rudolph Valentino (archive footage), Fannie Ward (archive footage), Mae West (archive footage), Henry Wilcoxon (archive footage).

Composer: Percy Faith.

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

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10184032520870

The Last Days of Gomorra - Die letzten Tage von Gomorrha - (1974)

In a future ruled by a corporate monopoly, a machine capable of fulfilling every human desire transforms society and renders genuine relationships obsolete. As a marginalized young woman is absorbed into the system, she confronts a world increasingly defined by consumption, control, and isolation.

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms. 

Writer: Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Stars: Mascha Rabben, Matthias Fuchs, Ernst Jacobi, Consuela Neal, Peter Roggisch, Alfred Edel, Jörg Schleicher, Ulrich Radke, Dieter Borsche, Ellen Umlauf.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/15040781093542

Switching: Goodbye Me - Tenkôsei: Sayonara anata - (2007)

After his parent’s divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. Obayashi’s self-remake of Tenkôsei.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi. 

Writers: Fumio Ishimori, Wataru Kenmochi, Chûkon Minami, Tadashi Naitô, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Hisashi Yamanaka (novel).

Stars: Misako Renbutsu, Naoyuki Morita, Maika Hara, Hiroshi, Takuro Atsuki, Hiroshi Inuzuka, Wakaba Irie, Hikari Ishida, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûko Kotegawa, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Hiroyuki Nagato, Misa Shimizu, Jô Shishido, Tomorô Taguchi, Koto Takagi, Saki Terashima.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/14961673243302