Monday, July 27, 2026

Shooting Gallery - Céllövölde - (1990)

After killing his abusive father, a troubled teenager becomes the focus of a police investigation that unravels the emotional scars, fractured family bonds, and shattered dreams that led to the shocking crime.

Director Árpád Sopsits shot his debut feature Shooting Gallery on the basis of a real-life incident, yet it is a thriller that does not simply reconstruct events as they happened. Nor is the dramaturgical structure typical: although the interrogation played out in the present frames the entire film, the recollections do not always follow in chronological order and in fact frequently instead of entire scenes we have just glimpses of brief memory traces.

Director: Árpád Sopsits

Writers: Gyula Elian, Árpád Sopsits.

Stars: Zoltán Lengyel, Judit Danyi, Lajos Kovács, Lili Monori, Feró Nagy, Attila Csuka, Árpád Kasza, Zoltán Kovács, Csaba Köfalvi, Ludwig Marcus, Vera Nagy, Katalin Orgován, Tibor Tatarek, Ferenc Trencsényi, Péter Tuza, Tamás Jordán, Jánosné Soltész.

1990 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo. A movie from Hungary.

Subs: English (hard)


LINK: https://ok.ru/video/16084691782310


Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Indian Summer - La prima notte di quiete - (1972)

In Italy, gambler and poetry professor Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months at a high school, replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello, and Gerardo Pavani. In the classroom he meets 19-year-old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo’s girlfriend, and they fall in love. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Director: Valerio Zurlini.

Writers: Valerio Zurlini (story), Enrico Medioli & Valerio Zurlini (screenplay).

Stars: Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Adalberto Maria Merli, Nicoletta Rizzi, Salvo Randone, Lea Massari, Fabrizio Moroni, Patrizia Adiutori, Sandro Moretti, Carla Mancini.

Subs: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/9858166033012

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Limousine the Color of Midsummer’s Eve - Limuzins Janu nakts krasa - (1981)

As soon as Mirta Saknīte, an elderly country woman, wins a car in a lottery, relatives, who had never taken any interest in the elderly woman before, flock to her homestead. Until then the large Giluči family were Mirta’s only helpers. Her nephew Ēriks with his wife and son and her ex-daughter-in-law Olita with her second husband and daughter would love to get their hands on the car. Everyone tries to lure Auntie Mirta on their side but shortly before her death she reconnects with her former sweetheart Alfrēds Pigals. Based on a story by Māras Svīre.

A phenomenon of Latvian film history – this domestic comedy has been recognized as the best Latvian film of all time on several occasions, and various Latvian TV channels still broadcast it on Midsummer every year. This film has also made the contemporary Latvian folklore richer with several catchy phrases and dialogues.

Director: Jānis Streičs

Writer: Mara Svire.

Stars: Lilita Berzina, Olga Drege, Uldis Dumpis, Gundars Abolins, Baiba Indriksone, Boļeslavs Ružs, Diana Zande, Liga Liepina, Romualds Ancans.

Subs: English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/15687359728294

Ceplis (1972)

Set during the first period of independence for Latvia (1918–1940), the film’s plot revolves around a shrewd business man Edgars Ceplis, who...