Prospero's Books is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, written and directed by Peter Greenaway. John Gielgud plays Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters. Stylistically, Prospero's Books is narratively and cinematically innovative in its techniques, combining mime, dance, opera, and animation. Edited in Japan, the film makes extensive use of digital image manipulation (using Hi-Vision video inserts and the Paintbox system), often overlaying multiple moving and still pictures with animations. Michael Nyman composed the musical score and Karine Saporta choreographed the dance. The film is also notable for its extensive use of nudity, reminiscent of Renaissance paintings of mythological characters. The nude actors and extras represent a cross-section of male and female humanity.
Prospero's Books is a complex tale based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, an exiled magician, falls in love with Ferdinand, the son of his enemy; while the sorcerer's sprite, Ariel, convinces him to abandon revenge against the traitors from his earlier life. In the film, Prospero stands in for Shakespeare himself, and is seen writing and speaking the story's action as it unfolds.
Ariel is played by four actors: three acrobats — a boy, an adolescent, and a youth — and a boy singer. Each represents a classical elemental.
Director: Peter Greenaway.
Cast: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson, Isabelle Pasco, Tom Bell, Kenneth Cranham, Mark Rylance, Gerard Thoolen, Pierre Bokma, Jim van der Woude, Michiel Romeyn.
UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan, 1991.
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 Na počátku stála kniha Bohumila Říhy O letadélku Káněti. Kniha i film, který podle ní vznikl, vyprávějí o dětské partě, která tráví prázdniny v blízkosti sportovního letiště. Právě prověřované letadélko nejprve přiřazují k mimozemšťanům, pak je podezírají ze špionáže, ale nakonec se vše vysvětlí. Děti dokonce najdou odvahu účastnit se leteckého výletu. Podle dobových ohlasů prý film vadil učitelům, neboť podle nich nabádal k nevhodnému chování.
Director: Jan Valášek st.
Cast: Zuzana Ondrouchová, Vlastimil Bican, Bohuslav Bernauer, Stanislav Neumann, Otto Lackovič, Josef Bláha, Jiřina Bílá, Libuše Šetelová.
Czechoslovakia, Filmové studio Barrandov, 1959.
Language: Czech, Russian.
Subtitles: Russian.
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A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare.
Director: Anders Morgenthaler.
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Villads Milthers Fritsche, Stine Fischer Christensen, Peter Stormare, Lucas Munk Billing, Mikkel Emil Böye, Morten Christensen, Laura Drasbæk, Søren Hauch-Fausbøll, Trine Panum Kjeldsen.
Denmark, 2007.
Language: Danish.
Subtitles: Russian.
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 Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Director: Patrick Alessandrin.
Cast: Richard Berry, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Melanie Thierry, Selma El Mouissi, Manon Gaurin, Quentin Pommier, Thomas Goulard.
France, 2001.
Language: French, Russian.
Subtitle: Russian.
Bonus: video interview with Director Patrick Alessandrin and actor Richard Berry.
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Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin, Sinéad Cusack, Hanns Zischler, Hanns Zischler, Gareth Brown, William Hootkins.
Germany, UK, France. 1992.
Language: English, Russian.
Subtitles: English, Russian.
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The Cement Garden. 1992.

 

 A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
Director: Catherine Breillat.
Cast: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti, Albert Goldberg, Odette Barrière, Ann Matthijsse, Pierre Renverseau, Jean-Marc Boulanger, Frederick Bodin.
France, Italy, 2001.
Language: French, Russian.
Subtitles: English.
Download A ma soeur! / Fat Girl / For My Sister.

 

 

Film about nudist camp "La fonte des neiges" (2009).
Léo is dragged to a nudist camping resort by his mother. Like most boys at the age of 12 or 13, being nude in public holds little appeal for Léo, who protests by wearing extra layers. Until he meets a certain special girl, who captures his heart and releases his inhibitions. 

 imdb 6.8/10 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1354003/

Cast: Marc Beffa, Géraldine Martineau, Zazon Castro, Laurent Roth, Lauren Chini, Natanaël Sylard, Laura Luna, Philippe Caulier.
France, 2009.

1024x576 HD
Language: French, Russian.

Quelque part vers Conakry. 1992.

 PT. Yndio do Brasil é um documentário brasileiro de 1995, escrito e dirigido por Sylvio Back e narrado por José Mayer.
Colagem de dezenas de filmes nacionais e estrangeiros de ficção, cinejornais e documentários, revelando como o cinema vê e ouve o índio brasileiro desde quando foi filmado pela primeira vez, em 1912. São imagens surpreendentes, emolduradas por musicas temáticas e poemas, que transportam o espectador a um universo idílico e preconceituoso, religioso e militarizado, cruel e mágico, do índio Brasileiro.
EN. Collage of many films, documenting the presence of Brazilian Indian in movies, since 1912, year of the first documented appearance.
Director: Sylvio Back.
Cast: Roberto Bonfim, Elmo Califontes, Reginaldo Calmon, Arduíno Colassanti, Lewis Cotlow, Arthur da Costa e Silva, Luely Figueiró,  Ernesto Geisel, Goiabinha, Ayda Guimarães, Nobre Jocoso, Carmo Nacarato.
Brazil, 1995.
Language: English, Guarani, Portuguese.
Download Yndio do Brasil / Our Indians.

 DE. Paul, genannt „Männchen“, lebt mit seiner Tochter, genannt „Herzblatt“, zusammen, die er nach dem Tod seiner Frau allein großgezogen hat. Den Anleitungen eines Buches von Dr. Seebauer gemäß hat er Herzblatt beigebracht, ihrem Körper nicht schamhaft gegenüberzustehen. Auch die Nacktheit eines Menschen ist normal, hat Herzblatt schon in jungen Jahren erfahren. Dies führte bei ihr zu einer Fixierung auf den Vater, der ihr Vater, Mutter, Freund und Spielgefährte zugleich ist. Selbst jetzt, wo Herzblatt weit in der Pubertät sein sollte, badet sie noch gemeinsam mit ihrem Vater, wobei beide Spaß am Seifenschaumschlagen haben, und bewegt sich ungeniert nackt in der Wohnung und auf der Dachterrasse, weil sie sich ihrer Wirkung auf Männer nicht bewusst ist. Paul sucht sich Rat bei Dr. Seebauer, der vorschlägt, für Herzblatt einen jungen Mann zu suchen, der ihre Aufmerksamkeit von Paul zu ihrem Partner lenken soll.
EN. Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning naked, he feels he has to take action. In the hope she'll learn herself what consequences the difference between boys and girls has, he tries to get her a boyfriend.
Director: Alfred Vohrer.
Cast: Georg Thomalla, Mascha Gonska, Siegfried Schürenberg, Günther Lüders, Carola Höhn, Paul Esser, Wolfgang Schneider, Gernot Endemann, Frithjof Vierock, Olga von Togni, Herta Worell, Ilona Grübel, Hans Cossy.
West Germany, 1969.
Language: German.
1280x720 HD
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Gauguin, le loup dans le soleil / The Wolf at the Door / Oviri. 1986..

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Director: Claude Miller.
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Raoul Billerey, Richard Guerry, Simon de La Brosse, Philippe Baronnet.
France, 1985.
Language: French, Russian.
Download L'effrontée / Charlotte and Lulu / Impudent Girl.

 

 Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter's surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children's rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yu-jin. But he and Yu-jin soon realize the school's principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth.

Director: Hwang Dong-Hyuk.

Cast: Gong Yoo, Jeong Yu-mi, Jang Gwang, Kim Hyeon-soo, Jeong In-seo, Baek Seung-hwan, So-yeon Jang.

Language: Korean.

Subtitles: Russian.

 

HU. Igazi retro csemege 1976-ból Gothár Péter rendezésével, Usztics Mátyás főszereplésével.
Ifjúsági TV film egy kisdobos örs különös napjairól.
Fekete-fehér, a hang nem tökéletes...de a látvány megéri.
Gothár Péter is megjelenik a filmben!
EN. Real retro delicacy from 1976, directed by Peter Gothar, starring Matthias Usztics.
Youth TV movie special days of a drummer patrol.
Black and white, the sound is not perfect, but the view is worth it.
Peter Gothar also appears in the movie!
Director: Péter Gothár.
Cast: Mátyás Usztics, Péter Gothár, children.
Hungary, 1976.
Language: Hungarian.
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 The film is set in the early 80's in the heat of the first war with Lebanon (also called the Sinai war). Summer Story is a charming tale of a young boy named Gal (Kosta Kaplan) who is the mail boy in a small village in Israel. On his daily routes he befriends Chaya (Aya Stienovitz)a 19 year old girl with a heart condition who corresponds with soldiers who have been sent to battle. The relationship between Chaya and Gal is charming and fascinating to watch unfold.

Director: Shmuel Haimovich.

Cast: Itamar Cohen, Tikva Dayan, Moshe Folkenflick, Evelin Hagoel, Albert Iluz, Kosta Kaplan, Eden Katz, Danny Steg, Aya Steinovitz, Sarah von Schwartze.

Language: Hebrew.

 

 1. Per the film's title, the Ninja masters this time out are adolescents. Disaster reigns supreme when the Prince of Blood invades a Shaolin temple. Most of the adults are killed, and it looks bad for Our Side. But the "little heroes" come through in a manner that would make their elders proud.

2. What a bizarre little film. What the story is really about or who the little kids are is not worth worrying about in this film. It is the amazing acrobatics that should entertain you through this movie. The scene where a drunk kid dances around a table with a bottle is pretty amazing as are the balancing acts.

Director: Cheng-da Tang.

Cast: Tien-chi Cheng, Ming Chi, Lun Hua, Kuo Chu Huang, Chun Hua Li, Tso-yung Li, Ching-Shun Mao, Chung Yen, Ming Cheng Tseng.

Language: English.

 

 A rare short film from Chile from the actor who appeared in only one film in 1978, a vivid example of independent cinema or art house. No information on this film in the internet did not find, imdb and other info services are steadfastly silent)). What is this strange film can only guess, I do not know Spanish and therefore I have nothing to report, even the year of the creation of this miracle could not be clarified ... It flashes on the creations of Jodorowsky and Corkidi, probably something philosophical ...
Director: Juan Pablo Donoso.
Cast: Willy Rojas, Miguel Angel Lagos.
Chile, 197?.
Language: Spanish.
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  Amateur short film of a young Director and cameraman Dmitry Rogov born in 1999. This story is about a little girl Lesya, who is terribly afraid of the sea. She is trying to overcome her fear, but sometimes it is much stronger.

Bonus - a short documentary about the film.
Director: Dmitry Rogov.
Language: Russian.
1280x720 HD
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A collection of short films of independent filmmakers from around the world, consisting of 4 mini-movies.
1. Sister.
Director: Michael Rittmannsberger.
Cast: Melanie Gemeiner, Mira Reisinger, Christine Renhardt.
1280х544 HD
Austria, 2010.
2. The Boy Who Builds Boats.
Director: Rachel Harris.
Cast: Peter Vander Meulen, Mira Kalmey, Drew Tholke, Chiara Russi.
USA, 2010.
3. My Favourite Things.
Director: Edward Styles.
Cast: Theo Styles, Amelia Cook.
USA, 2009.
4. Barnerov.
Director: Camilla Ramonn.
Cast: Toke Lars Bjarke, Esben Sloth Andersen, Jonas Leth Hansen, Christian Kasper Bacher Helsinghof.
Denmark, 2010.
Download Anthology of short films. Part 1.

 A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life. Shortly after their departure, things are changing in Germany very quickly, and a turning back seems impossible. So everyone has to arrange himself with the new life in a new continent.
Director: Caroline Link.
Cast: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Matthias Habich, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Gerd Heinz, Hildegard Schmahl, Maritta Horwarth, Regine Zimmermann, Mechthild Großmann.
Germany, 2002.
Download Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa.

 

 New Russian independent cinema in the best classical traditions of Soviet tragicomedy. The action  of this poetic film is set in a small village on the shore of the Azov Sea in the early 1960s. Teenagers dream of passionate love, which is known only from the stories "experienced" people. 16-year-old Ignat first know the real feeling. His love for the beautiful adventuress, presenting itself as the capital of the singer, becomes destructive. This is a story of first love and betrayal. The woven fabric of the film funny and incredible local legends and myths associated with the cult of the ancient settlements.
Director: Yuriy Feting.
Cast: Irina Patrakova, Klim Zvezdin, Angelica Nevolina, Denis Kasimov, Tatiana Rasskazova, Alexander Petrov (III), Vera Chmeleva, Lyubov Makeyeva, Vera Makushkina, Vladimir Karakhanyants, Irnat Telnov.
Russia, 2005.
Download Mify Moego Detstva / Myths of My Childhood.

 

 

 

The architect and head of the family Markus Larsen secretly lives out his bisexual tendencies while his wife Christine and their 11-year-old daughter Elisabeth drown in unbearable loneliness. When Markus gets to know the 12-year-old son of a colleague, he feels an immediate affection for the boy. Slowly, Markus begins to approach Johannes and creates an intimacy of which he increasingly loses control. While his wife and daughter are damagingly affected by their symbiotic relationship, Johannes is playing his own secret game which, in the end, leads to disaster for every family member.

Cast: Sten Jacobs, Anna Altmann, Jaspar Fuld, Nina Splettstosser, Stephan Burgi, Natascha Zimmermann, Felix Witzlau, Tobias Frieben, Leon Delor.

Language: German.

Subtitles: English.

Ideal quality Video 1280x720 HD.

 

 CZ. Je jí patnáct. Je nejlepší ve všem. Především v tenise. Tedy alespoň v okrese. Prozatím. Otce miluje a nenávidí. Matku miluje a nenávidí. Ona je centrem všeho-rodiče mají jen ji. Takže, kdo jiný by měl být ten nejlepší... Ironická, pro někoho možná až krutá studie úspěchu a jeho extrémních důsledků. Podívejte se! Třeba se náhodou poznáte.
EN. She's fifteen. She's the best in everything. Most of all tennis. At least in the district. For now.
Director: Zuzana (Kirchnerová) Špidlová.
Cast: Marika Šoposká, Jakub Prachař, Alena Štréblová, Zdeněk Pecháček, Jiří Wohanka, Pavel Nečas.
Czech Republic, 2006.
Language: Czech.
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