Drama, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1951.
Noriko, a secretary from Tokyo, resides in Kamakura with her family along with her parents Shūkichi and Shige, her elder brother Kōichi, a doctor, her wife Fumiko and their 2 boys Minoru and Isamu. Noriko's friends are divided into 2 groups, married and single...

Drama, by by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
The story takes place in Kyoto and follows Eiko, a young woman who wants to become a geisha and asks the older Miyoharu to teach her the trade. One of her first clients tries to rape her but Eiko violently defends herself and sends him to the hospital. A...

Drama, by Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1953.
Shukichi and Tomi, now close to seventy, take a trip to Tokyo to visit their children before it's too late. When they arrive in the city, however, the welcome is not what they expected: the eldest son Koichi and his sister Shige have too many work commitments ...

Drama, fantasy, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
Japan, late 16th century: the potter Genjurō and his brother Tobei live with their wives Miyagi and Ohama in a village in the Omi region; Genjurō, convinced that he can earn a lot of money by selling his goods in the nearby city, goes to the county...

Drama, Noir, by Samuel Fuller, 1964, United States.
Kelly is a prostitute who arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville, after moving away from the big city to escape her former protector. She meets her local police captain Griff who hosts her in her apartment, but then invites her to leave ...

Mystery, thriller, by Roy William Neill, United States, 1945.
Several women are murdered and their index fingers cut. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson spring into action. Widower Sir George Fenwick is a victim of hypnosis, finds a severed index finger in his pocket and believes he is the killer. Hi...

Mystery, Thriller, by Roy William Neill, United States, 1943.
Sherlock Holmes infiltrates the Nazis to help scientist Franz Tobel escape the Gestapo trap in Switzerland and rescue his new invention, a war scope. Holmes secures the scientist in London, under the protection of his friend Watson. Th...

Mystery, thriller, by Roy William Neill, United States, 1946.
John Davidson, a convicted thief in Dartmoor Prison embeds the code that reveals the hidden location of stolen extremely valuable Bank of England currency printing plates in the music of three music boxes that are sold at auction. Each...

Mystery, Thriller, by Roy William Neill, United States, 1946.
London. Young Vivian Vedder takes her coffin with her newly deceased mother by train to Scotland. Also on the train is Lady Margaret, owner of the famous Rhodesia star diamond. Sherlock Holmes is in charge of protecting the precious st...

Drama, history, by Derek Jarman, United Kingdom, 1976.
In the third century A.D. Sebastiano is a member of the personal guard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he tries to intervene to prevent one of the Emperor's catamites from being strangled by one of his bodyguards, Sebastian is exiled to a rem...

Documentary, by Jon Braeley, USA, 2014.
In the Footsteps of Buddha is a journey across India tracing the same route that Buddha walked on his path enlightenment. Siddhartha Guatama lived 2500 years ago in an ancient land called Maghada, known today as Bihar, the poorest state in India. He was bor...

Thriller, by Orson Welles, United States, 1946.
Orson Welles, a filmmaker who has always been against the Hollywood system, did not like this film made inside the studios, but strangely he managed to create a commercial product beyond his own expectations, managing to insert his unmistakable styl...

Documentary, by Jon Braeley, United States, 2009.
In this documentary, you will encounter the spirituality of some of the most enlightened yoga masters in the world and get answers to important questions about higher consciousness. Shot in India between the Northern Himalayas and Mysore, you will...

Comedy, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1963
Simón, a long-bearded holy man, lives on a column in the middle of the desert, almost in total fasting. People worship him as a Messiah. He performs miracles, undergoes temptations from Satan, who torments him under the guise of a handsome woman. A series of g...

Documentary, by Jon Braeley, United States, 2006.
The Zen Mind is a fascinating journey through Japan to explore Zen in its natural habitat. A travelogue to explore the practice of modern Zen. We will take you from the hustle and bustle of rush hour Tokyo to the peaceful mountains of Kyoto. From ...

Documentary, by Jon Braeley, United States, 2012.
What is Tibetan Buddhism? This film is a journey through Tibetan Buddhist monasteries to meet some of the great Lamas of Buddhism, against the backdrop of the Himalayan mountains and the rhythmic chanting of prayers. A documentary to improve menta...

Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...

War, drama, by Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1953.
Fear and Desire is the first feature by Stanley Kubrick, a totally independent film financed by the director himself and by a fundraiser between friends and relatives. Made with a small crew, Kubrick also took care of the editing and photograph...

Drama, by F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924.
Jannings is the doorman of the Atlantic hotel in Berlin, happy with his role and his uniform. But his boss thinks he is too old to receive customers at the entrance and sets him up to clean the bathrooms. Jannings, deeply troubled by what happened, gets drunk...

Horror, fantasy, by Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920.
The symbolic film of cinematic expressionism. Francis tells a story to a man: in 1830, in a small town, a guy named Caligari, plays the barker at the fair to present the attraction of him, a sleepwalker that he holds under hypnosis in a coffin. The...

Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
Apathy: Lockdown 2020. A quarantined writer is facing a creative block. And so the Muse is stuck in his mental fears. The fears come from the economic and social instability that lockdown had ran over his face. A tribute to all the artists in the world ...

Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
A quarantined writer (who can no longer write) seems to accept the government measures, even if they deprive him of his freedom, privacy, strenght, joy and, most of all, his job. So it happens that at some point he can't breathe anymore. Strange sensati...

Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929.
After a few years spent making propaganda documentaries, Dziga Vertov realizes his masterpiece, inspired by the theories on reality cinema and Kinoglaz. An experimental visual symphony with futurist roots. An ordinary day of a cinematographer wandering ...

Short film, by M. Menegazzo, M. Pernisa, Italy, 2017.
Every year, the last week of October, between Saturday and Sunday, the transition from summer to solar time takes place, the antechamber of the winter season. Before moving the hands back one hour and feeling the approach of darkness, someone ...