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October 3, 2021 / Television

Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1994) AKA Portrait of a Young Girl in the Late '60s in Brussels

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Extremely controlled and somewhat austere, Akerman’s contribution to the landmark television series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge holds true to its title as it hews closely to its moody protagonist, Michèle, a headstrong high schooler and aspiring writer who confesses that her exterior “joie de vivre” masks her inner suffering. Deciding to abandon her studies and her family, she naturally heads to the cinema, where she meets a handsome French deserter from a hoity family. For the rest of the day they meander through the streets of Brussels, oscillating between desire and despair.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1994)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Portrait of a Young Girl in the Late '60s in Brussels</span>
July 10, 2021 / Comedy

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)

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Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate. Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one-night stand…

WATCH HERESheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
September 4, 2019 / Arthouse

Une femme douce (1969) AKA A Gentle Woman

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Elle steps off the balcony of her Parisian apartment, plunging to her death. Why has she done it? As her pawnbroker husband, Luc, looks over her dead body, director Robert Bresson’s eerie, elegant picture traces their lives together in flashback. Elle is the “Gentle Creature” — meek, dreamy and thoughtful. She entrances Luc, who pursues her passionately. They marry, but the match never seems right, and things turn sour, grimly heading toward an inevitable end.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Une femme douce (1969)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA A Gentle Woman</span>
December 29, 2025 / Action

Døden på Oslo S (1990) AKA Death at Oslo Central

Døden på Oslo S follows two teenage friends, Pelle and Proffen, in late-1980s Oslo as they navigate the city’s gritty underbelly. When Pelle falls for the troubled young Lena, who struggles with drug addiction, they both try to help her escape her destructive life. Their search exposes them to violence, addiction, and the harsh realities of life around Oslo Central Station.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Døden på Oslo S (1990)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Death at Oslo Central</span>
December 29, 2025 / Documentary

Blue Eyed (1996)

For 30 years, Jane Elliot has committed herself to fighting against racism, prejudice and ignorance through an exercise separating blue-eyed persons from brown-eyed persons. This film witnesses one such experiment with a group of business people who find themselves experiencing discrimination and condemnation due to their eye color. Director Bertram Verhaag captures the emotional power of the experiment and forces the spectators to challenge themselves like the participants.

WATCH HEREBlue Eyed (1996)
December 29, 2025 / Comedy

Mučedníci lásky (1966) AKA Martyrs of Love

Featuring pop stars Karel Gott and Marta Kubišová (who later became the director’s second wife) in lead roles, with cameos by the two girls from Chytilová’s Daisies and director Lindsay Anderson as traffic policeman, Martyrs of Love is the most perfect embodiment of Němec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. The nearly dialogue-free music comedy about three timid lovers, which combines aesthetics of 1920s silent slapstick cinema with romantic music of the 1960s, cemented the director’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Mučedníci lásky (1966)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Martyrs of Love</span>
December 29, 2025 / Drama

Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)

A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too begins stealing cows. Not knowing his father very well, the youth is anxious to prove himself a manly man and a friendly rivalry develops until the father is captured and imprisoned. Meanwhile, his son joins the cavalry and secretly engineers a break out. He succeeds and then feels terrible guilt, for it is his unit that has been assigned to bring his father to justice.

WATCH HERERide a Crooked Mile (1938)
December 29, 2025 / Drama

Wyrok zycia (1933) AKA Life Sentence

December 29, 2025 / Short

Mompelaar (2007)

Mompelaar is a withdrawn young man who lives with his domineering mother somewhere in the Flemish countryside. One of his daily walks through the fields is interrupted by a strange encounter with some locals.

WATCH HEREMompelaar (2007)
December 29, 2025 / Short

L’enfant de la Ciotat (1995) AKA The Boy from La Ciotat

December 29, 2025 / Arthouse

Anta mujer (1976)

This surreal, allegorical short film by Agustí Villaronga follows a young woman by the sea who encounters a mysterious red creature that reveals hidden secrets of the ocean. The encounter transforms her, granting uncanny, almost sorcerous powers. Drawing on Christian symbolism and pagan ritual, the film unfolds as a dreamlike meditation on feminine transformation and elemental forces, heightened by Carl Orff’s music.

WATCH HEREAnta mujer (1976)