The Birdcage Inn (Palan Taemun, 1998) Directed by Kim Ki-Duk | VIDEO (MKV)

Synopsis :
Birdcage Inn is a drama about experiences moulding people's lives. After the clearing of the red light districts in Seoul, a young prostitute named Jin-Ah settles in at the Birdcage Inn, a family-run establishment in a small port town. Although the family seem to be quite "normal," with a daughter, Hea-Mi, attending college and a son, Hyun-Woo, in high school, they have no qualms about living off the prostitutes to whom they rent their rooms. Only Hea-Mi seems embarrassed by the situation, and takes her anger out on Jin-Ah every chance she gets. Complications arise when all the male members of the family (including Hea-Mi's boyfriend) line up to sleep with Jin-Ah. Jin-Ah sells sex, but in one sense, she is free from it, whereas Hea-Mi is prudish and hypocritical about sex. A twist of events bring the two girls together when they realize how much they have in common and sex, which had alienated one from the other, turns into a mediating factor for reconciliation. Prostitution has long been a favorite themes of Korean cinema. Director Kim Ki-Duk, who is also an accomplished painter, captures some beautiful moments in the life of the prostitute, particularly when she leaves the inn and goes near the sea. The open landscape in these scenes serves as a metaphor for the girl's inner freedom, which is paradoxically fed by her captivity to her profession, inside the symbolic "Birdcage Inn" of the title. Intense dramatic moments of conflict are tightly controlled by the director to overcome tendencies towards theatrical melodrama. Birdcage Inn was screened as part of the Panorama section of the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999. Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Title : The Birdcage Inn (1998)
Original title :   Palan Taemun  
Directed by Kim Ki-Duk
Duration : 101 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio in Korean
Genres :  Drama
Countries : Korea, South
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Daughter of Deceit (La Hija del Engaño, 1951) Directed by Luis Buñuel | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. He begins looking for her. He finds that she has grown up to be happily married. She is also pregnant. Sandra Brennan
Title :  La Hija del Engaño (1951)  
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Duration : 80 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese, Spanish
Audio in Spanish
Genres :  Drama
Countries : Mexico

You Can't Take It With You (1938) Directed by Frank Capra | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), a former businessman who has turned his back on commerce to enjoy life. At the Sycamores', everyone does just what he or she pleases. Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington), Grandpa's daughter, has become a novelist because someone delivered a typewriter to her home by mistake. Penny's husband makes firecrackers in his basement with the help of Mr. DePinna (Halliwell Hobbes), an iceman who showed up at the Sycamore doorstep one day and never left. Their daughter, Essie (Ann Miller), imagines that she's a prima ballerina, even though her dour teacher, Boris (Mischa Auer), assesses her work with, "Confidentially, it steenks!" Essie's husband, Ed (Dub Taylor), who'd rather play a xylophone than work, spends his free time selling Essie's candy, wrapping each package in paper from a used printing press that dispenses anarchistic slogans. The one normal member of the household is Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), in love with wealthy Tony Kirby (James Stewart). Naturally, when the stuffy, aristocratic Kirbys come to the Sycamores' for dinner, the event is a disaster, capped with the arrest of everyone in the household. Hart and Kaufman's third act found the previously judgmental Kirby softening his attitude toward the freewheeling Sycamore clan, admitting that he's never had so much fun in his life. Screenwriter Riskin altered the focus of the play by throwing out the third act and concentrating upon Tony Kirby's father, Kirby Sr., who as played by Edward Arnold is transformed from a stock stuffed shirt into a ruthless, grasping tycoon, eager to buy up every house on the Sycamores' block to make room for a munitions plant. The film thus became the story of Kirby's regeneration at the hands of the carefree Sycamores. Enough of the play's screwball elements are retained to compensate for Riskin's speechifying and plot distortions (though the softening of one of the play's vital ingredients, Grandpa's refusal to pay his income tax, borders on the sacrilegious). You Can't Take It With You earned several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Capra's third Oscar). Hal Erickson
Title :  You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Directed by Frank Capra
Duration : 126 min.
Subtitles : English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Japanese
Audio in English
Genres :  Comedy, Drama, Romance
Countries : United States 

Landscape After Battle (Krajobraz Po Bitwie, 1970) Directed by Andrzej Wajda | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
Based on the writings of Tadeusz Borowski, a child survivor of Auschwitz who committed suicide at 29, this is the story of two concentration camp survivors. A sensitive young poet is approached by a pretty Jewish girl with a plan to move to the West. Fueled by hatred over his experience in prison, he is reluctant to go and seeks revenge on his former captors. His hatred of the Germans prevents him from realizing the girl has fallen in love with him. The woman is accidentally shot by an American soldier, causing the poet to cry for the first time in years. He must reckon with his past and is finally awakened to the feelings that allowed his initial creativity that was suppressed by his Nazi captors. Dan Pavlides
Title : Landscape After Battle (1970)
Original Title : Krajobraz Po Bitwie
Directed by Andrzej Wajda  
Duration : 109 min.
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French
Audio in Polish
Genres : Drama, War
Countries : Poland
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They Live by Night (1948) Directed by Nicholas Ray | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title, director Nicholas Ray inaugurates his first feature, They Live by Night. Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell play a "Bonnie and Clyde"-type fugitive couple, who in trying to escape their past are hell-bent down the road to Doom. Despite their criminal activities, Bowie (Granger) and Keechie (O'Donnell) are hopelessly naïve, fabricating their own idyllic dream world as the authorities close in. The entrapment -- both actual and symbolic -- of the young misfit couple can now be seen as a precursor to the dilemma facing James Dean in Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. A box-office disappointment upon its first release, They Live by Night has since gained stature as one of the most sensitive and least-predictable entries in the film noir genre. The film was based on a novel by Edward Anderson, and in 1974 was filmed by Robert Altman under its original title, Thieves Like Us. Hal Erickson
Title : They Live by Night (1948)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Duration : 97 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio in English
Genres : Mystery, Drama, Romance, Crime
Countries : United States

Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo Detstvo, 1962) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
This debut feature-length wartime drama by noted Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a remarkable introduction to a remarkable career. The poetic touch of Tarkovsky's hand and his measured pace is already evident as the tale of the young, twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) evolves. Ivan is orphaned after his village is wiped out by an invading Nazi army and as a consequence, he ends up in a prison camp. The inventive lad escapes and is adopted by Captain Kholin (Valentin Zubkov), whose intention is to send the boy away to school. But Ivan is determined to help the Russian army and so he starts spying on the German forces. Because of his tender years he manages to pass freely back and forth behind enemy lines -- at least for awhile. This exemplary film won the top prize, the Golden Lion award at the 1962 Venice Film Festival and also won the Grand Prize at the 1962 San Francisco Film Festival. Eleanor Mannikka
Title : Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Original title :   Ivanovo Detstvo
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Duration : 97 min.
Subtitles : English, Portuguese, Spanish
Audio in Russian
Genres : Drama, War
Countries : No rated
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Utamaro And His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna, 1946) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
The central character in this Kenji Mizoguchi film is Utamaro, the famed 18th-century Edo artist. Somewhat inarticulate, Utamaro expresses his love for five women through his paintings. The director uses this plot contrivance to articulate his plea for fairer and more equitable treatment of women. And, as in such earlier Mizoguchi films as Sisters of Gion, prostitutes figure prominently into the scheme of things. Mizoguchi's second postwar effort, Utamaro and His Five Women was originally titled Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna. Hal Erickson
Title :  Five Women Around Utamaro (1946)
Original title :  Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Duration : 106 min.
Subtitles : English, Portuguese
Audio in Japanese
Genres : Drama
Countries : Japan 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hzK6KL2nQ

A Lesson in Love (En lektion i kärlek, 1953) Directed by Ingmar Bergman | DVD (ISO)

Synopsis :
En Lektion i Kärlek constitutes one of Ingmar Bergman's more overtly entertaining films. In this highly engaging comedy, Bergman reunites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, who had already teamed to great effect in the final, comic episode of Secrets of Women (1952), and he once again casts them as an amusingly antagonistic husband and wife. Bjornstrand's character, David Erneman, is a successful gynecologist who has jeopardized his sixteen-year marriage by entering into an affair with one of his patients. In retaliation, his wife, Marianne, departs for Copenhagen to revive relations with a former fiancé. David initially seems only slightly disturbed by his wife's action, but when his affair ends and he enjoys an afternoon with his inscrutable daughter (Harriet Andersson, in an especially plucky turn), he determines to embark for Copenhagen and win back his wife. But his initial efforts at a reunion hardly bring him success, and only after a barroom altercation with his brutish rival does David seem to rekindle his wife's affection for him. En Lektion i Kärlek is a pivotal film in the Bergman canon, reviving his fortunes after the critics' rejection of Gycklarnas Afton (Sawdust and Tinsel) (1953) and spurring him toward his comic masterpiece, Sommarnattens Leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) (1955). Bergman came to regard En Lektion i Kärlek as a divertissement, but the film is of a greater magnitude than usual comedies of domestic life, and Bergman concludes it with the endearing image of Cupid strolling past the hotel room of the reunited couple. Les Stone
Title : A Lesson in Love (1953)  
Original Title : En lektion i kärlek
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Duration : 95 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio in Swedish
Genres : Drama,  Comedy, Romance
Countries : Seweden

Summer Interlude (Sommarlek, 1950) Directed by Ingmar Bergman | VIDEO (MKV)

Synopsis :
In this melancholy romance, a not-so-young ballerina recalls an earlier, tragic love affair. The heroine, Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), spends a summer with her possessive Uncle Erland (Georg Funkquist), who lives with his cancerous wife on an island near Stockholm. While staying with her uncle, who may have intimidated her into a sexual relationship, Marie befriends an innocent youth, Henrik (Birger Malmsten), with whom she soon falls in love. As the glorious summer comes to an end and autumn approaches, harkening Marie's return to the mainland and her dancing career, the lovers express their love to each other. But a fatal swimming mishap brings an end to the affair. Marie continues with her life, but she fails to come to terms with the tragic past. Later, Marie receives the diary that she kept during that memorable summer. She thereupon returns to the island, where she again meets her ghoulish Uncle Erland. Repulsed by his cynicism, Marie determines to recover her joy of living. She returns to Stockholm and shares the diary with her lover, a smarmy journalist (Alf Kjellin). In the concluding scene, she expresses her regained exuberance while dancing. A pivotal film in Ingmar Bergman's oeuvre, Sommarlek marked his maturation as a master filmmaker capable of evocative imagery and poignant expression. Of particular note are the unsettling scenes between Marie and her ominous uncle, framed and lit to emphasize the disturbing nature of their relationship. Maj-Britt Nilsson's performance as Marie is also remarkable, enhanced by Bergman's increasing mastery of the close-up. The splendid achievement of Sommarlek signalled a long succession of masterworks that ensued until Bergman's withdrawal from filmmaking in the 1980s. Les Stone
Title : Sommarlek (1950)   
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Duration : 95 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio Original in Swedish
Genres : Drama, Romance, Teather
Countries : Sweden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTtCCWzjADE

O Amuleto de Ogum (1974) Directed by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos | VIDEO | VHS (ISO)

Synopsis :
To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly had a "closed body", meaning that his body couldn't be hit by bullets or other weapons, by the wish of Ogum, one of the gods of Candomblé, a religion common in Brazil and Africa.

Para entreter alguns ladrões, um violonista cego conta a história de um homem do Nordeste do Brasil, envolvido com criminosos que moravam no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro, que supostamente tinha um "corpo fechado", ou seja, seu corpo não poderia ser atingido por balas ou outras armas, por vontade de Ogum, um dos deuses do Candomblé, religião comum no Brasil e na África.
Title :  O Amuleto de Ogum (1974)
Directed by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Duration : 112 min.
Audio in português
Genres : Drama
Countries : Brazil 

São Bernardo (1972) Directed by Leon Hirszman | VIDEO | VHS (ISO)

Synopsis :
The story of Paulo Honório, a poor kid who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.

A história de Paulo Honório, um garoto pobre que se torna um rico fazendeiro. Obcecado pelo desejo de ficar ainda mais rico, ele não dá muita atenção à esposa, Madalena, uma professora que reage contra seus modos tirânicos.
Title :  São Bernardo (1972)
Directed by Leon Hirszman
Duration : 112 min.
Audio in português
Genres : Drama
Countries : Brazil 

Copacabana me engana (1968) Directed by Antonio Carlos Fontoura | VIDEO | VHS (ISO)

Synopsis :
Copacabana is a film that tells the story of a typical Copacabana middle-class family: the children who are part of the youth left on the streets, without defined prospects, and the parents, who start to live their old age brooding over dreams of happiness that cannot be performed.

Copacabana é um filme que conta a história de uma típica família de classe média copacabana: os filhos que fazem parte da juventude deixada nas ruas, sem perspectivas definidas, e os pais, que passam a viver a velhice remoendo sonhos de felicidade que não podem ser realizados.
Title : Copacabana me engana (1969)
Directed by  Antonio Carlos Fontoura
Duration : 112 min.
Audio in Português
Genres : Drama, Comedy
Countries : Brazil 

Os Cafajestes (1962) Directed by Ruy Guerra | VIDEO | VHS (ISO)

Synopsis :
Jandir and his friend Vavá, a playboy, live in the world of drugs and sex in Copacabana. But Vavá's situation is not good, as his father is at risk of losing everything he has. That's when the duo comes up with the idea of taking compromising photos of Leda, Vavá's uncle's lover, with the aim of blackmailing him. They take her to a deserted beach and, after taking photos, rape her.

Jandir e seu amigo Vavá, um playboy, vivem no mundo das drogas e sexo de Copacabana. Só que a situação de Vavá não é boa, já que seu pai corre o risco de perder tudo o que tem. É quando a dupla tem a ideia de tirar fotos comprometedoras de Leda, a amante do tio de Vavá, no intuito de chantageá-lo. Eles a levam a uma praia deserta e, após tirarem as fotos, a estupram.
Title : Os Caafajestes (1962)
Directed by Ruy Guerra
Duration : 121 min.
Musical score by Luis Bonfá
Audio in Português
Genres : Drama, Crime
Countries : Brazil