Ladies in Beijing (2020)

The Door in the Floor

The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the couple's daughter. Ted, a well-known writer, hires as his assistant a student named Eddie, who looks oddly similar to one of the Coles' dead sons. The couple separate, and Marion begins an affair with Eddie, while Ted has a dalliance with his neighbor Evelyn.

The Belly of an Architect

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.

Guns of Darkness

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.

You Can Choose Your Friends

Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.

The V.I.P.s

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Cutting Moments

In the center of a monotonous suburban existence, Sarah lives silently and in subservience to her icy husband Patrick. They have been together far too long, and Patrick's affections for his wife have all but vanished. Instead, his sexual urges are tempting him to lust after their own son. Realizing how far gone her husband is, Sarah undertakes drastic, shockingly sickening measures to salvage some sense of her life and purge her years of festering resentment.

Tchaikovsky’s Wife

Antonina Miliukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.

One Trick Pony

An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.

Learning to Drive

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

Save the Tiger

A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

A Man Amidst Bees

Bruno is a young film editor who has just broke up his marriage with Regina, and returned living in his mother's house. Drowned in deep sorrow, something very weird happens in his life: people around him are gradually disappearing. But only for him. Some kind of blindness.

Mother

Life becomes hard for a family after the father is involved in an accident that causes him to lose his legs.

L'Amour fou

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

Everything is Love

Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.

Garage Sale

As his parent’s marriage disintegrates, Patrick is dragged along to a Saturday morning garage sale by his father, Wayne. The hidden conflict between his parents can’t be avoided when a concerned neighbour enquires after Patrick’s mum, causing tension between father and son. Only then does Patrick seek refuge from his father’s manipulations.

Lavender

A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.

Old Boyfriends

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Trash

Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang.

House of Gucci

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

Taken 3

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

0.1% World

Tells the love story between men and women in different places who perceive each other's emotions and perceptions and communicate. Because of an accident, assistant architect An Yi and piano tuner Gao Ang become connected through brain waves. Since then, the lives of the two become linked and gradually become the most "understanding" of each other.

For Better and Worse

A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.

Pride

Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from western colonialism but was ultimately hanged by a vengeful United States.

Lilits

A story fragmented in three parts: Marina an ordinary girl, Marie a transsexual girl and Maxine a New Age style hippie girl. All three immerse themselves in a unique job, which is led by Stefano, a mysterious man who creates thematic, the girls they must smoke opium and sleep. After a while, Maxine discovers a sordid plan of old traditions and where the only thing that remains is to escape before they are eliminated.

The Good Nurse

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Kadal Kuthiraigal

A school in a remote village gets a swimming coach who turns the fortunes of its students.

We

A college student named ‘We’ has a part time job at a convenience store. While there, she receives a phone call from an unknown number.

Fear

Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution.

THEATER. Afterword

The film was shot as the final part of the play "Drink the sea, Xanthos" theatre-Studio "NEO" (St. Petersburg 1987-1989). As a result, the performance was changed and the film gained independence. He became an allegory of acting.

Cubby

A misanthropic 20-something gay visual artist, Mark, finds himself unwittingly in New York City after he lies to his mother about a job at a prestigious art gallery. He then takes a survival job babysitting for 6-year-old Milo, whose faith in Mark is empowering and ultimately, transformative.

Leona

Ariela, a traditional Jew, meets Ivan, a young man who is not Jewish with whom she begins a secret relationship despite her family beliefs.

Let's Wait with the Anniversary

Days and nights of the life of the head of Kolkhoz who tries to improve the life of the members every way he can imagine.

The Gardener

The story of a hero who grew an apple orchard for people.

Lacrimi de iubire

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Iblis

The love of half-witted Vyshakh for the beautiful Fida and how it takes him places that are beyond reality.

H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2016

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Portland, OR has been the vanguard of Weird independent filmmaking for more than 20 years. Now you can attend in spirit, with this selection of short films from the 21st Annual festival in 2016! Including "Speaking in Tongues" by Thomas Nicol, "Vardøger" by Ludovic de Gaillande, "Poetry & The Gods" by Louis Rossignol, "Tale of Wingate's Journal" by Jeremy Peterson, "Zerch" by Xavier Velasco, "The Call of Charlie" by Nick Spooner, "The Bone Garden" by Monsieur Soeur, "Hypnos" by Juho Aittanen, "The Package" by Eric Morgret, "An Eldritch Place" by Julien Jauniaux + Bonus Music Video.

Heart's Haven

A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.

H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2017

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Portland, OR has been the vanguard of independent horror filmmaking, with a cosmic or Weird twist, for more than 20 years. Now you can attend in spirit, with this selection of short films from the 22nd Annual festival in 2017! Including "Eldritch Code" (Sweden) dir. Ivan Radovic, "There is No Door" (USA) dir. Ward Crockett, "Mary and Marsha in The Manor of Madness" (US) dir. Kris Theorin, "Wattmarck" (Austria) dir. Lorenz Tröbinger - inspired by The Music of Erich Zann, "The Transition of Juan Romero" (USA) dir. Whitney Ellis - based on the Lovecraft story, "Leviathan" (Peru) dir. Erik Woolcott, "The Doom That Came To Sarnath" (UK) dir. Nael Ali"Sound From The Deep" (Finland) dir. Joonas Allonen and Antti Laakso - inspired by "At The Mountains of Madness" + Bonus Music Video

Wedding Night

A love story in a middle of WWII.

The father of other

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Déjà vu

To what extent does a director stay objective and anonymously hidden behind the camera? The Danish director Jon Bang Carlsen knows for sure that the choices he makes in his films aren’t accidental. Several excerpts from his own work show that events in his personal life have a major influence on his work. In fact, he appears to be using images that he recognizes in particular. It’s a revelation for this filmmaker, who used to think he could stay objective and invisible. Topics such as doubting his faith, his runaway father and impressions from a carefree childhood are recurring themes in his diverse oeuvre. Showing us individual scenes, Carlsen comments in voice-over on the images and muses about his life and work.

Radio Home

Four teenage friends - Frank, Spüli, Mücke, and Pommes - try to have their first contact with the opposite gender. Not so easy in the Ruhr region of the 80s. Attempts at dancing and being in a band go wrong, and their parents and teachers can't help with that, so the four teens need to get creative.

Double Trouble

Radašin and Milašin are brothers but they don't talk with each other. Both of them got letters inviting them on mysterious journey from their village to Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Each one has an amusing path that leads to one place, but their family won't let them fulfill their destiny alone in the end.

Pasajes

In this talky Spanish thriller, Gabi, a lesbian gang member seeks to convince her middle-aged heterosexual dreamgirl Carmina to become her new lover and crime partner. The story begins as Gabi and her lover burst into another woman's apartment, tie her up and begin robbing her. The police show up and during a shoot-out, one of the robbers is killed. After she escapes, Gabi returns to her fringy friends and begins dreaming of a soul mate. All Gabi knows is that the right woman will be a pair of green high heels. Carmina owns such a pair, and though she is far from Gabi's physical ideal, a soul mate is a soul mate and so she begins her persistent courtship.