The Flowers of War (2011)

AKA:
Jin ling shi san chai >> Original

Synopsis:
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor.

Starring:
Christian Bale
Ni Ni
Xinyi Zhang

Director: Yimou Zhang

Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)

AKA:
Nanking
City of Life and Death

Synopsis:
In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Starring:
Ye Liu
Wei Fan
Hideo Nakaizumi

Director: Chuan Lu

Nanjing 1937 (1995)

Synopsis:
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.

Starring:
Han Chin
Ai Saotome
Rene Liu

Director: Ziniu Wu

The Cult Next Door (2017)

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AKA:
The Cult of Jackie

Synopsis:

This documentary by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tells the extraordinary story of a strange cult, which came to light in 2013 when a sensational news story broke about three women emerging from a small flat in Brixton in south London after decades in captivity. Tracing the group back to its roots in the 1970s, the film describes how its leader Aravindan Balakrishnan, a student of Indian origin, believed in an international communist revolution and created a tiny political sect that followed the teachings of China's Chairman Mao.
The film features exclusive interviews with two of the women who escaped - Aisha Wahab, a 72-year-old Malaysian woman who was part of Balakrishnan's group for 40 years, and Katy Morgan-Davies, Balakrishnan's daughter, who was born and raised in captivity. The film documents how this left-wing collective evolved into a bizarre pseudo-religious cult, where members were controlled, threatened and brainwashed so that they were too terrified to leave.

Purple Sunset (2001)

AKA:
Ziri
紫日

Synopsis:
A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.

Starring:
Anna Dzenilalova
Eddie Eagle
Dalong Fu

Director: Xiaoning Feng

M y M: Matilde y Malena (2010)

Synopsis:
Matilde and Malena living together but are completely different people. Matilde is fond of pornography, morbid, horror movies and live with the constant desire to commit suicide. Malena is sociable, loves animals and has a boyfriend. One night Malena goes to a costume party in order to meet her boyfriend.

Starring:
Melisa Gil Bolke
Martina Foux Marambio
Christian Veléz

Director: Victor Curay Fernández

They're Playing With Fire (1984)

Synopsis:
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

Starring:
Sybil Danning
Eric Brown
Andrew Prine

Director: Howard Avedis

Urlaubsgrüße aus dem Unterhöschen (1973)

Starring:
Jean-Marie Dany
Leopold Gmeinwieser
Anneliese Groebl

Director: Walter Boos

Pola X (1999)

Synopsis:
A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister and he begin an unusual relationship with her prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée

Starring:
Guillaume Depardieu
Yekaterina Golubeva
Catherine Deneuve

Director: Leos Carax

Messalina, Messalina! (1977)

AKA:
Caligula 2
Mesalina, Mesalina >> Spain
Messalina - keisarinna ja huora >>  Finnish
Messalina - Kaiserin und Hure >> German
Messaline, impératrice et putain >> French
Η Μεσαλίνα και οι άντρες της >> Greek
or Μεσσαλίνα εναντίον Μεσσαλίνα >> Greek
Caligula II: Messalina, Messalina >> USA
or Caligula, Part II: Messalina, Empress of Love >> USA
or Caligula: Sins of Rome >> USA

Starring:
Anneka Di Lorenzo
Vittorio Caprioli
Giancarlo Prete

Director: Bruno Corbucci

Wenn´s juckt wird gejodelt (1974)

AKA:
Zwei Rebläuse auf dem Weg zur Loreley
Unterm Höschen wird gejodelt

Starring:
Fritz Korn
Olli Maier
Erich Kleiber

Director: Quirin Steinar

Beim Jodeln juckt die Lederhose (1974)

Synopsis:
What happens when a bus with mostly female passengers strands in a small Bavarian village? Funny stuff, that's what! There are the ski instructors who only want to be seduced and dragged off into bed. There's Sepp, who believes he has discovered an oil-well. Or what about Principal Müller from Berlin, who becomes an accidental hero? Whatever happens, no-one end up sleeping alone .

Starring:
Judith Fritsch
Franz Muxeneder
Rosl Mayr

Director: Alois Brummer (as A. Brummer)

Unterm Dirndl wird gejodelt (1973)

Synopsis:
Heidi tries to improve her grades at school by having sex with her teacher. When she returns to her parent's home somewhere in Bavaria, she starts to spend an unusual amount of time with the male population of her village.

Starring:
Gisela Schwartz
Annemarie Wiese
Annemarie Wendl

Director: Alois Brummer

Katharina und ihre wilden Hengste I - Katharina, die nackte Zarin (1983)

AKA:
Katharina und ihre wilden Hengste, Teil 1 - Katharina, die nackte Zarin
Katharina, die nackte Zarin
Екатерина и её дикие жеребцы >> Russian
Catherine la Tsarine Nue >> French
Aikaterini i megali, i ekfyli Tsarina  >> Greek
Caryca Katarzyna i jej dzikie ogiery, Czesc 1 >> Polish
Katarina in njeni ljubimci >> Slovenian
Katharina - Die nackte Zarin  >> Die nackte Zarin

Starring:
Uschi Karnat
Werner Singh
Jean-Paul Blondeau

Director: Klaus König (as Scott Hunt)

Katharina und ihre wilden Hengste II - Katharina, die Sadozarin (1983)

AKA:
Katharina und ihre wilden Hengste, Teil 2 - Katharina, die Sadozarin
Caryca Katarzyna i jej dzikie ogiery, Czesc 2 >> Polish
Katharina, die Sadozarin

Starring:
Sandra Atia
Sascha Atzenbeck
Jean-Paul Blondeau

Director: Klaus König (as Scott Hunt)

Sundari (2017)

Starring:
Dahayang Rai
Pryanka Karki
Saugat Malla
Keki Adhikari

Stalnaya babochka (2012)

AKA:
Стальная бабочка
Steel Butterfly

Synopsis:
I rarely watch Russian movies and was also quite skeptical about this one. I was proved wrong. I liked the movie pace - not action after action and not too many philosophical dialogs at the same time. I liked the way a story was portrayed - quite realistic homeless children and cops (maybe just a bit sweeter and nicer than real Russian police). Despite the fact that it was marked as 16+, I was pleased that there were no abusive or over the limit scenes - enough to intrigue and enough not to distract spectators focus from the main idea. I had teary eyes at the end - through our life we constantly have to make choices and face their consequences.

Starring:
Darya Melnikova
Anatoliy Belyy
Darya Moroz

Director: Renat Davletyarov

Chang (1997)

AKA:
Downfall

Synopsis:
A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.

Starring:
Eun-Kyung Shin
Jeong-hyeon Han
Dong-joon Choi

Director: Kwon-taek Im

Arakimentari (2004)

About:
A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

Starring:
Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki
Björk

Director: Travis Klose

Bheja Fry II (2011)

AKA:
Bheja Fry 2

Synopsis:
In order to pursue his dream of becoming a singer, Income Tax Officer Bharat Bhushan, decides to compete in 'Aao Guess Kare", and dramatically not only wins Rs.25 Lakhs, but also a 3-day luxury cruise. Attracted to his hostess, Ranjini, he embarks well-prepared for any eventuality, and is introduced to a number of fellow passengers. Out of these Ajit Talwar, Kapoor and their group are displeased when they find out he works for the Income Tax Department and bug his room in order to find out what he is really up to. Ajit then attempts to kill him but instead falls overboard. Bharat unknowingly throws up a life-jacket, while Ajit's goon pushes him overboard. The next day the duo wake up on an isolated island and Bharat makes himself virtually at home, starts singing old Bollywood songs much to Ajit's chagrin who is desperate to get back home in order to attend a meeting. Waiting for a quick rescue, the duo will be in for quite a shock when they find they are not quite alone on this.

Starring:
Vinay Pathak
Kay Kay Menon
Minissha Lamba

Director: Sagar Ballary

Bheja Fry (2007)

AKA:
Bheja Fry I

Synopsis:
Ranjeet Thadani lives a wealthy lifestyle in Mumbai along with his wife, Sheetal, who is a singer, while he manages Soundtrack Industries. At the request of his friend, Jagdish Verma, he decides to invite a singer and Libran, Bharat Bhushan, to his residence for dinner, as well as listen to him sing. Ranjeet, suffering from back pain, does not realize that Bharat is also an Income-Tax Inspector, and upon arrival at Ranjeet's residence, will virtually and hilariously turn his life upside down.

Starring:
Vinay Pathak
Rajat Kapoor
Sarika

Director: Sagar Ballary

Saat Uchakkey (2016)

Synopsis:
This is a comedy caper about 7 petty crooks blundering their way through an exciting gamut of mystery, greed, treachery and running into one riotous crisis after another. Set against the gritty backdrop of Old Delhi, this burlesque film opens a window into the unpredictable world of magical realism, where the lingo is spattered with the choicest of swear words and the mannerisms with sidesplitting humor.

La La Land (2016)

Synopsis:
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Starring:
Emma Stone
Ryan Gosling
J.K. Simmons

Director: Damien Chazelle

Kya Yahi Sach Hai (2011)

About:
This is a film based on the best-selling novel 'Carnage by Angels' written by the then serving officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS), based in Mumbai, India, Y.P. Singh in the year 2003.

Synopsis:
Y.P. Singh has been an officer of 1985 Batch of the IPS. Seeing the fast deteriorating ethics in police functioning, which otherwise has profound social consequences, Y.P. Singh took it as his mission to fight corruption from within.

Since there was a corrupt hierarchy from the bottom to the top, one lone officer, logically, would never have made a difference. Realising this, Y.P. Singh quit the police force with a view to making his endeavours more effective from the outside.

While still in service, Y.P. Singh wrote a novel ‘Carnage by Angels’ which was a bestseller of its times. The intent of this novel was plain – Let people know and understand the profound dynamics of corruption in the police and in the government.

Considering an enormous appreciation of this novel, it was considered expedient to adapt this novel into a feature film. Hence, ‘Kya Yahi Sach Hai’ (Is This is the Truth) was made.

Unfortunately, due to its radical theme, sensational revelations and honestly narrated facts, efforts were made, first to block this film and then its exhibition. Enormously constrained, amidst overwhelming odds, somehow, we could move ahead.

Starrring:
Gurpreet Chadha
Shalini Chandran
T.K. Chowdhary

Director: Y.P. Singh

Welcome To Sajjanpur (2008)

Synopsis:
It was Jawaharlal Nehru who changed the name of a small town, Durjanpur, to Sajjanpur, and that was about all the change that had occurred there since then. The town still lacks adequate infrastructure, no safe drinking water; in a 24 hour period, electricity is out for almost 23 hours, and most people, even though they own mobile phones, cannot speak or write English. One of the residents, who does speak and write English fluently, Mahadev Kuswah, lives with his mother, and both run a small fresh vegetable store after his dad abandoned them when he was very young. He has since obtained a degree from Satna University, and assists residents with written correspondence for a fee. Amongst his clients are Man Singh - who wants his homicidal wife to stand for the Municipal elections; a eunuch, Munnibai Mukhrani, who also to stands for elections; a snake charmer who is trying to make a living with fake snakes and is trying to locate his father; Ram Kumar, who is in love with a widow, Shobha.

Starring:
Shreyas Talpade
Amrita Rao
Ravi Kishan

Director: Shyam Benegal

B.A. Pass (2012)

Synopsis:
After losing his parents in a car accident, Mukesh stays at his Aunt's house in Delhi. Enrolled in a good for nothing course in college he finds peace by playing chess at the local cemetery, the rest of the times he worries over ways to make a living and taking care of his sisters. 'B.A.Pass' is a story looking at the fatal promise of a new life. When Mukesh meets Sarika 'auntie' at a kitty party, little does he know of the city and it's ways and means to survive. Sarika seduces Mukesh, shy and inexperienced he falls for her. What follows is a twist of destiny, a kind of story that appears in the tabloids as 'heinous acts of crime'

Starring:
Shadab Kamal
Shilpa Shukla
Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Director: Ajay Bahl

Mashan (2015)

About:
The actor and director Nir Shah has started making an art movie, based on the story of late Gopalprasad Rimal’s story "Masan". Gopal Prasad is a noted poet and playwright who ushered in a new era in Nepali literature. The drama, Masan is also taught as one of the electives in schools in Nepal and India.

Starring:

Raj Ballav Koirala
Keki Adhikari
Nita Dhungana
Nir Shah

Director: Nir Shah

Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006)

Starring:
Anupam Kher
Boman Irani
Parvin Dabbas
Tara Sharma

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami (2014)

Synopsis:
Follows two brothers and their quest to fulfill their father's last wish, a twenty-one gun salute.

Starring:
Anupam Kher
Neha Dhupia
Divyendu Sharma

Director: Ravindra Gautam

Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga... (2013)

Synopsis:
A satire on inflation-hit middle-class Indian family from a small city in North India. The story revolves around our protagonist who is struggling to survive in this spiraling inflation and how he comes up with a solution to battle it, only to find himself in an even bigger mess due to their innocence and naivety. The story is laced with undertones of sociopolitical issues as well traditions that reflects struggle of the 'average' man, while entertaining that makes you laugh ( and cry) at yourself and the situations that one faces on a daily basis.

Starring:
Vishwa S. Badola
Ranjan Chhabra
Zakir Hussain

Director: Anshul Sharma

Mixed Doubles (2006)

Synopsis:
Mumbai-based Sunil Arora is in Marketing, while his wife of 10 years, Malti, is in Sales Division. Both have a son, Avi, who studies in Arya Vidya Mandir. When their U.S-based friends, Shefali and Harsh, come to visit, Sunil finds out the secret behind Harsh's attitude - which is spouse-swapping. He attempts to convince Malti to do the same - in vain initially - but succeeds rather dramatically after a few days. He goes through a number of classified advertisements and subsequently meets a couple, Kalpana and Vinod Khanna. He then convinces his wife to accompany him to their residence - with hopes that this joint meeting will not only spice up but also change their lives forever.

Starring:
Konkona Sen Sharma
Ranvir Shorey
Koel Purie

Director: Rajat Kapoor

Ankhon Dekhi (2013)

Synopsis:
Raje Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) is a man in his late fifties, living out a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi- where he lives with his extended family. A random incident is going to change his life in a dramatic way- though he does not realize at the moment. Bauji's daughter has been seeing a boy of ill repute. When that fact is revealed to the family, after much deliberation they decide to do the obvious- lock up the girl and go beat the willful boy. It is a funny old journey of this man, this old fool- who is both Lear and the fool.

Starring:
Sanjay Mishra
Seema Pahwa
Rajat Kapoor

Director: Rajat Kapoor

Nil Battey Sannata (2015)

 

Synopsis:
Appu is a class 10th student and is giving up on studies, because she knows her mother will not be able to provide for her higher studies. Her mother tries hard and even enrolled her for maths tuition but Appu thinks only children of rich parents become doctors or engineers and believes she'll end up being a maid too like her mother. But one day her mother gets a chance to continue her Education.

Starring:
Swara Bhaskar
Ratna Pathak
Pankaj Tripathy

Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Jugaad (2009)

Synopsis:
Delhi-based Sandip Kapoor, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife, Priya, had started his business, Promodome, with just Rs.15000/-, which, after a lot of hard work and diligence, has now grown to Rs.15 Crores. Just when he was preparing to make presentations to overseas clients, Commissioner I.M. Gupta issues demolition orders under the Urban Land Ceiling Act after determining that the business was located in a residential zone. Unable to even enter the premise, Sandip, with the assistance of a con-man, Bakshi Jugaad, rents a building without any water supply and electricity. He makes arrangements for tankers to deliver water and has diesel generators provide electricity. Hoping to make a stand until his lawyer resolves this issue, he is unprepared when his employees resign after informing him that they simply cannot stand the stress of seven hours travel back and forth. As if that was not enough of a shock, he is then informed by an enraged Commissioner that the matter is now.

Starring:
Manoj Bajpayee
Hrishitaa Bhatt
Vijay Raaz

Director: R. Anand Kumar

Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010)

Synopsis:
Om Shastri, a recession victim comes to India to sell his ancestors property to clear is debt. On reaching he comes to know that selling the property will make his family homeless in India. Later he is kidnapped by goons thinking a rich NRI.

Starring:
Rajat Kapoor
Neha Dhupia
Sanjay Mishra

Director: Subhash Kapoor

Wild Child (2008)

Starring:
Since Malibu brat Poppy Moore's mom passed away, she has pushed her rich, usually absent dad Gerry shamelessly. When his patience wears out, she's shipped off to her mother's former English boarding school for girls, Abbey Mount. On her first day she makes enemies of most dorm mates, especially dominant lacrosse school captain Harriet, and of staff disciplinarian Mrs. Kingsley. Unwilling to accept the strict regime, she decides to misbehave and take the blame for everyone until she's dismissed. The school only appealing feature for her is Kingsley's dashing son Freddie. When the dream prince transfers his favor from ambitious, uptight Harriet to unruly Poppy, that changes everything.

Starring:
Emma Roberts
Aidan Quinn
Natasha Richardson

Director: Nick Moore

xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (2017)

Synopsis:
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.

Starring:
Vin Diesel
Donnie Yen
Deepika Padukone

Director: D.J. Caruso

Anthropoid (2016)

Synopsis:
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.

Starring:
Jamie Dornan
Cillian Murphy
Brian Caspe

Director: Sean Ellis

Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Synopsis:
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

Starring:
Jason Statham
Jessica Alba
Tommy Lee Jones

Director: Dennis Gansel

Erste Liebe (1970)

AKA:
First Love

Synopsis:
Based on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.

Starring:
John Moulder-Brown
Dominique Sanda
Maximilian Schell

Director: Maximilian Schell

La sorella di Ursula (1978)

AKA: The Sister of Ursula

Synopsis:
While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Starring:
Barbara Magnolfi
Stefania D'Amario
Anna Zinnemann

Director: Enzo Milioni

Höhenfeuer (1985)

AKA:
Alpine Fire

Synopsis:
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

Starring:
Thomas Nock
Johanna Lier
Dorothea Moritz

Director: Fredi M. Murer