Passion and Romance Ocean of Dreams (1997)

Spartacus: Blood & Sand (2010)

AKA:
Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Synopsis:
Watch the story of history's greatest gladiator unfold with graphic violence and explicit sex. This is Spartacus.

Starring:
Andy Whitfield
Lucy Lawless
Manu Bennett 

Director: Steven S. DeKnight

Rome (2005)

Synopsis:
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Starring:
Kevin McKidd
Ray Stevenson
Polly Walker

Directors: Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald, John Milius

ساعة حب ()

Neumonía erótica y pasota (1981)

Saying Goodbye One Day (2010)

AKA:
Sayonara Itsuka >> Japanese

Synopsis:
Sayonara Itsuka, the highly anticipated adaptation of a 2001 novel by Hitonari Tsuji, stars Miho Nakayama, Tsuji's wife, who returns exclusively to the screen for this film. The story, set in 1975, is about Yutaka (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines where he meets a woman named Toko (Nakayama) at a bar. He's set to marry Mitsuko (Yuriko Ishida), the daughter of the airline's founder in the near future, though he's with her primarily to further his career ambitions. As his wedding date gets closer, he gets caught up in a passionate love affair with Toko, but he eventually decides to break it off and go through with his marriage after all. Toko is heart-broken, and moves to New York.

Twenty-five years later, Yutaka is still married and now has two sons, but he can't seem to shake the memory of his brief love affair in 1975. He travels back to Bangkok on business, unaware that he's destined to be reunited with Toko once again.

Betty Blue (1986)

AKA:
37°2 le matin >> French
37.2°C in the Morning

Synopsis:
Originally titled in French as 37°2 le matin, which means "37.2°C in the Morning". (37.2°C [99°F] is the normal morning temperature of a pregnant woman.) This award winning film was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and stars Béatrice Dalle as Betty. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Philippe Djian.
  
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

The History of O (1975)

AKA:
Histoire d'O  >> French
The Story of O

Starring:
Alain Noury
Albane Navizet
Anthony Steel
Bernard Jeantet
Christiane Minazzoli
Corinne Clery
Florence Cayrol
Gabriel Briand
Gabriel Cattand

Director: Just Jaeckin

Impudicizia (1981)

Starring:
Malù
Branco Djuric
Blanca de Castejon
Julián Soler

Director: Pasquale Fanetti

Seven Women for Satan (1976)

Rowdy Rathore (2012)

Starring:
Akshay Kumar
Sonakshi Sinha
Karisma Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor
Prabhu Dheva
Paresh Ganatra
Mumait Khan
Shakti Mohan
Maryam Zakaria
Nasser
Jayant Gadekar
Kaajal Vashisht 

Director: Prabhu Deva

Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)

Starring:
Jaideep Ahlawat
Manoj Bajpai
Richa Chadda
Mukesh Chhabra
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Anurita Jha

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Yuriko's Aroma (2010)

Syopsis:
30 something year old Yuriko (Noriko Eguchi) works as a aromatherapist at an aroma salon. She uses essentials oils and her hands to soothe her client's inner well-being. Yuriko also has a secret she can't tell anyone; She gets incredibly turned on by the sweaty scent of a 17 year old high school student named Tetsuya (Shota Someya). Tetsuya is also the nephew of the salon owner (Jun Miho). Meanwhile, salon client Ayama (Saori Hara) asks to practice aromatherapy, but her real intent is to press her large breasts against Yuriko.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Synopsis:
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Khula Bazaar (2004)

Synopsis:
Aarti and Raja are in love with each other and want to get married. However, their love story is cut short when Raja is framed in a murder case. To save her lover, Aarti sells her body to arrange the money to pay for a good lawyer for Raja. After Raja gets acquitted he finds out about Aarti's new profession and despises her. Aarti also discovers that she has contracted AIDS from one of her clients.

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 241 (2012)

About:
Politics after Maoist Split

नयाँ संविधान लेखेर परिवर्तनलाई संस्थागत गर्नुपर्ने बेला नयाँ पार्टी गठन गर्न नेताहरु किन लागेका होलान्? नयाँ दल खोल्दैमा नेपालीको जीवनस्तरमा परिवर्तन सम्भव छ? कि नयाँ दल खोल्ने उचित मौसम अहिले नै हो? संविधान त लेखिएन, तर माओवादी अहिले नै किन विभाजित भयो? माओवादीको यो फूटले नेपालको राजनीतिमा आउँदा दिनमा के प्रभाव पार्ला?
साझा सवालको यो बहसका लागि हामीसँग हुनुहुन्छ- माओवादी संस्थापन पक्षका नेता अग्नि सापकोटा, विभाजित माओवादी वैद्य पक्षका नेता हरिभक्त कँडेल र बाम-विश्लेषक झलक सुवेदी ।

Guests: Agni Sapkota, Haribhakta Kandel / Kadel and Jhalak Subedi
Dates: 24.06.2012

Satyamev Jayate - Eps 8 (2012)

About:
For decades our food and water have been contaminated by powerful, harmful pesticides which have been promoted as necessary for better agricultural output. But the reality is that we don't need pesticides for better yield, and their use is not only deadly for health but results in expensive farming methods. The solution is to adopt organic farming, which is possible and profitable, as the state of Sikkim has shown.

Episode 008 Satyamev Jayate: Toxic Food - Poison On Our Plate? - 24 June 2012 with Amir Khan on Star Plus channel.

Himmatwala (1983)

Synopsis:
Dharam Murti is a much respected school master in Shaktinagar in India, where he lives with his young son, Ravi, daughter, Padma, and wife, Savitri. One day he witnesses a man being being killed at the hands of Sher Singh Bandookwala, the Zamindar. He reports this matter to the police and Sher is arrested and prosecuted. Sher uses all his financial might to convince the courts of his innocence, and is set free. Then a few days later, Dharam is found in a compromising position with a new lady school-teacher, Menaka, is summoned by the local Panchayat, and asked to leave Shaktinagar for 30 days. Dharam leaves and does not return, leaving his wife and children alone and destitute. Savitri toils hard to provide education for Ravi, and for this she scarifies everything she has owned, and sends Ravi to her brother's place. Years later, Ravi is now an Engineer and returns home to Shaktinagar.

Starring:
Jeetendra
Sridevi
Shakti Kapoor
Kader Khan
Amjad Khan
Asrani
Waheeda Rahman

Director: K Ragvendra Rao

Achhut Kanya (1936)

Starring:
Devika Rani
Ashok Kumar
P.F. Pithawala
Kamta Prasad
Kishori Lal

Director: Franz Osten

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 240 (2012)

About:
Disaster Preparedness (Nepal Japan)

जापानमा गएको सुनामीको एकबर्षपछि जापानीहरू अहिले के कस्तो महसुस गर्दैछन्? गएको बर्षको सुनामी देख्दा वा भोग्दाको उनीहरूको अनुभव कस्तो रह्यो त? जापानको यो प्राकृतिक प्रकोपबाट नेपालीहरूले के सिक्नुपर्ला त? गएको बैशाख महिनामा जापानमा रहदाँ साझा सवाल टोलीले जापानको सेन्डाइमा रहेका जापानी र नेपालीसँग उनीहरूको अनुभव सुन्न पाएको थियो । धेरै भाग जापान र केही भाग नेपालमा तयार गरिएको साझा सवालको यो २४० अंकमा हामी प्रकोप पूर्वतयारी र जोखिमका बारेमा केन्द्रीत छ ।

Guests: None
Dates: 17.06.2012

Satyamev Jayate - Eps 7 (2012)

About:
For countless women, entering married life often means the beginning of a stressful, violent existence. Beating one's wife seems to be ingrained in many men's mindsets as the appropriate behaviour for a strong male, but the consequences are misery for the wife and children, and often a broken, unhappy home. The concept of domestic violence is based on the notion of patriarchy, which needs to be converted into equality.

Episode 007 Satyamev Jayate: Domestic Violence - Danger At Home - 17 June 2012 with Amir Khan on Star Plus channel.

ATM (2012)

Synopsis:
On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.

Starring:
Alice Eve
Josh Peck
Brian Geraghty

Director: David Brooks

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 239 (2012)

About:
People from Rolpa

२०५२ सालमा माओबादीले 'जनयुद्ध' को नाममा सशस्त्र विद्रोह रोल्पाबाट शुरू गरेको थियो । एक दशक लामो माओबादी विद्रोह र त्यसले बनाएको सेना नेपाली सेनामा समायोजनपछि त्यो एउटा अध्याय समाप्त भएको छ । माओबादीसँगै अरू दलहरूले ६२/६३ सालमा गरेको १९ दिनको आन्दोलनपछि बनेको संविधानसभा पनि संविधान नै नलेखी सकिएको छ । परिवर्तनको अपेक्षा राख्ने आमनेपालीजस्तै रोल्पाबासी यतिखेर के सोच्दैछन् त? रोल्पा सदरमुकाम लिवाङमा तयार गरिएको यो साझा सवालमा एकीकृत माओबादी नेता झक्कु सुवेदी, नेकपा एमाले नेता प्रकाश ज्वाला र कांग्रेस नेता रमेश लेखक हुनुहुन्छ ।

Guests: Jhakku Subedi, Prakash Jwala and Ramesh Lekhak
Dates: 10.06.2012

Bandini (1963)

About:
This was Bimal Roy's final feature as a director and regarded by many as his crowning achievement. After casting her, in his previous women-centric film, Sujata, now the key laid in persuading Nutan out of her post-nuptial retirement to play the strictly raised, poetry-loving village girl, Kalyani. Nutan is strongly supported by Ashok Kumar and Dharmendra, just beginning to make an impact in the film industry and directed by award winning director Bimal Roy, who ventures into the life of a convict and reveals his/her humanity and the circumstances that often force an ordinary person to commit a crime. This deep social concern is however conveyed subtly without being didactic, through the predicament of the main protagonist, Kalyani lodged in the prison through majority of the film and her longing for freedom. The film also highlights the spirit of sacrifice in the youth during the freedom struggle when a youth would even sacrifice his future wife, at his party's command. Despite having a dramatic turn of events throughout the film, the melodrama never overpowers the narrative, the pace remains engrossing yet easy, and cinematography highlights the stillness and vacuum of a prison life. Nutan remains understated through the film, and the director employs irony and symbolism throughout the film to make his statement instead.

The lead female role was offered to one of Roy's favorite actress Vyjayanthimala who earlier worked with Roy in Devdas and Madhumati. However due to her busy schedule she refused the role which later went to Nutan.

S D Burman composed the songs for the film, at the height of his musical career and even chose to sing one himself, 'O Re Majhi'. The movie has songs such as "Mora Gora Ang Lai Le" by Lata and the haunting and brilliant "O Jaanewale Ho Sake To Laut Ke Aana" by Mukesh . The film is brilliantly photographed in Black and white by Kamal Bose with its rich tonal quality and evocative framing, especially in the stark prison scenes, winning him the Filmfare Award for the year.

It's the first movie of lyricist / composer Guljar / Guljaar, famous for his poetic songs.

Awards
1963:  National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
1964:  Filmfare Awards for -
           Best Movie
           Best Actress: Nutan
           Best Director: Bimal Roy
           Best Cinematographer: Kamal Bose
           Best Sound: D Billimoria
           Best Story: Jarasandha

Synopsis:
During the British Raj of the 1930s, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convict who eventually reveals the story of her past and her connection to a freedom fighter.

A female centric movie, one of the rare ones in Indian movies, Bandini revolves around Kalyani or Bandini, meaning imprisoned. It is also the only film to have depicted the sacrifice made by ordinary rural women during the Indian independence struggle.

Starring:
Ashok Kumar - Bikash Ghosh
Nutan Behl - Kalyani
Dharmendra - Devendra (Prison Doctor)
Raja Paranjpe - Kalyani's Father
Tarun Bose - Mahesh Chandra
Asit Sen - Shambu
Chandrima Bhaduri
Moni Chatterjee - Inspector
Raj Verma
Satyendra Kapoor / Kappu

Director: Bimal Roy

Sujata (1960)

Synopsis:
Sujata gets adopted by the Chowdhury family, which consists of dad Upendranath; mom Charu; and a daughter, Rama, and is treated just like a daughter. Sujata grows up in this caring and nuturing household and leads a very comfortable life. Both Sujata and Rama are now of marriageable age. A young man, Adhir, comes to the Chowdhury household with a view to marry. He meets Sujata and falls in love with her. When he informs his aunt of this decision, she is aghast, as she knows that Sujata is not only of a lower caste but also an untouchable, and she wants Adhir to marry Rama, or will not permit him to live with her. While at the Chowdhury household, Charu wants Sujata to leave the house immediately, as she will have nothing to do with her anymore.

Starring:
Nutan
Sunil Dutt
Shashikala

Director: Bimal Roy

Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966)

Synopsis:
Super Hit old classic movie Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966) Synopsis : Jitendra Gupta lives a poor lifestyle in Calcutta, India, along with his elder and widowed sister, and a niece named Sushma. He works in the editorial department of a leading newspaper. He unauthorizedly exposes unscrupulous persons that are related to the newspaper's board of directors, leading to him being reprimanded by the Managing Director, Amita Sinha, and being forced to resign. Amita does have a change of heart, when she finds out that he had printed the truth, not only reinstates him but promotes him as the Chief Editor, and falls in love with him. Amita lives a wealthy lifestyle with her sister, Sunita, and is all set to tell her the good news that she finds out that Sunita has fallen in love with him also. Amita decides to give up on Jitendra in her sisters' interest. Shortly thereafter she receives a marriage proposal from wealthy Vikram Varma, the brother of a Director of the newspaper, for Sunita's hand.

Starring:
Dharmendra
Deven Verma
Tanuja
Mala Sinha
Johnny Walker

Director: Shahid Lateef

Satyamev Jayate - Eps 6 (2012)

About:
People with disabilities have the same zeal and appreciation for life as the rest of us do. But they often get shunned, doubted, mocked and insulted. Access to public places and buildings is restricted and doors are closed for schooling and employment. India does not appear to be mature enough and understanding enough to recognise people with disabilities for what they are - People.

Episode 006 Satyamev Jayate: Persons with Disabilities - We Can Fly!  - 10 June 2012 with Amir Khan on Star Plus channel.

Sutradhar (1987)

Starring:
Girish Karnad - Zamindar
Smita Patil - Prerna (as Late Smita Patil)
Nilu Phule
Nana Patekar - Kumar
Ashalata - Bela (Courtesan)
Sudhir Dalvi
Gajanan Jagirdar
Director: Chandrakant Joshi

Gaman (1978)

Starring:
Jalal Agha
Sulabha Deshpande
Nana Patekar
Smita Patil
Farooq Shaikh
Gita Siddharth

Director: Muzaffar Ali

Satyamev Jayate - Eps 5 (2012)

About:
People trust medical practitioners, believing that they are equipped with the knowledge and skills to safeguard their health. But when this knowledge is misused to exploit this trust, medical care becomes a nightmare. The profession is riddled with unscrupulous doctors
and hospitals out to make big bucks at the cost of patients, but there are
still medical practitioners who stand up for the Hippocratic Oath, and those
who want to clean up the profession.

Episode 005 Satyamev Jayate : Is Love a Crime?  - 3 June 2012 with Amir Khan on Star Plus channel.

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 238 (2012)

About:
Nepali Diaspora in Japan

३७७६ मिटर उचाइको माउन्ट फुजी जापानीहरूका लागि गौरवको विषय हो भने कतिपय पर्यटकहरूको आकषर्ण पनि हो । अहिले, धेरै नेपालीहरूका लागि जापान आकर्षणको एउटा गन्तब्य बनेको छ । युवाहरू विद्यार्थी भिसालगायत अरू कामका लागि जापान जाने क्रम बढेको छ । जापानमा भएका नेपालीहरूको अवस्था कस्तो छ त?
गएको बैशाख महिनाको शुरूमा साझा सवाल टोली जापानमा थियो । जापानमा रहदाँ हामीले धेरै नेपालीहरूलाई भेट्यौ र उनीहरूसँग कुराकानी गर्यौं । विश्वको अरू देशको तुलनामा जापानमा धेरै नेपालीहरू व्यवसायमा संलग्न रहेको पाइयो । रेस्टुरेन्ट व्यवसायमा धेरै नेपालीहरूको आकर्षण देखियो । जापानको राजधानी टोकियोको एउटा सामुदायिक केन्द्रमा झण्डै दुईसय नेपालीहरूबीच साझा सवालमा छलफल गर्न जापानका लागि नेपाली राजदूत डा. मदनकुमार भट्टराई र जापानमा रहेका नेपाली व्यवसायी तथा गैरआवासीय नेपाली संघका केन्द्रीय कोषाध्यक्ष भवन भट्ट हामीसँग हुनुहुन्थ्यो ।

Guests: Madan Kumar Bhattarai, Bhawan Bhatta
Dates: 03.06.2012

The Afterman (1985)

About:
THERE IS NO DIALOG IN THIS MOVIE
What I have the honor of reviewing here is something totally unique and probably ranks quite high on the worldwide list of obscure Sci-Fi/horror movies. "The Afterman" is a Belgian post-apocalyptic thriller, but even in its own country of release (which is really small) it only received a minimal distribution and finding a decent copy on VHS is about as rare as encountering a salsa-dancing elephant. Fortunately – or unfortunately if you wish – there are not many people on the lookout for this film and that's mainly either because they don't know it exists or because the reputation of writer/director Rob Van Eyck isn't exactly favorable around here. His most famous film "Blue Belgium", inspired by the infamous Mark Dutroux pedophilia scandal, is generally considered as one of the worst Belgian movies ever and doesn't really stimulate viewers to check out the director's other works. Too bad, actually, since "The Afterman" is a truly special and deeply intriguing cinematic experiment, accomplished with an absolute minimum of financial means yet with a massive amount of controversial themes and downright shocking ideas in the screenplay. The rudimentary plot outline is somewhat reminiscent to "The Omega Man", with a sole man trying to stay alive in a post-nuclear wasteland and the constant threat of other bewildered survivors trying to take advantage of him or even to kill him. Only the concepts of the two films are similar, as the elaboration.

Straight into Darkness (2004)

Synopsis:
Two AWOL American Soldiers escape into the dank wasteland of Nazi-occupied France during WWII. They come across a bullet-ridden schoolhouse and fall into the hands of a group of resistance fighters - the maimed and intellectually stunted children of the school who have been trained to regard killing Germans as a game. Together, the children and the fugitives find themselves reluctant allies when they come under a surprise attack by an enemy battalion loaded with heavy artillery and powerful tanks.

Starring:
David Warner
Daniel Roebuck
James Legros
Scott MacDonald
Linda Thompson
Ryan Francis

Remember The Daze (2008)

Synopsis:
This comedy looks through the eyes of a handful of teenagers who make their way through the last day of high school in the last year of the past millennium and provides a glimpse into the teenage wasteland of 1999 suburbia. The film follows several students as they relish the advent of summer vacation and struggle with drugs, sex and the unpredictability of the future before them.

Waste Land (2010)

Synopsis:
A social documentary based around the lives of garbage pickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as a man by the name of Vik Muniz creates art out of recycled material. The film starts with an introduction into Vik Muniz's career as an artist and how he is reveled as "one of the greatest [artists] of our generation"; swiftly leading into his desire to change the lives of the catadores, only to discover that he would become the changed.

Starring:
Vik Muniz

Directors: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, and João Jardim