Misery Movies

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy...

A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director Marco Ferreri features Christopher Lambert as...

Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals....

A broken Man awakes to be confronted with his life, and the choices he's made. His past, present and future collide as he faces the inevitable.

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity,...

An injured Andrew ends up drawn into the complicated world of Rebecca, a solitary writer whose obsession with a divine mythological character has...

In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their...

A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself....

In her small apartment, a woman receives an unusual visit from the man she claims to miss.

Mexico, 1940's. Fernando, a thirteen-year-old boy who lives in a rural town, will face uncertainty, treason and tragedy.