Movie List for "n a 2"

An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco. Year 1971.

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger. Year 1978.

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema. Year 1999.

A Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri. Year 1966.

A detective investigating a murder follows a convoluted trail littered with treachery, ruined lives, and tragedy. Year 1980.

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing. Year 1939.

After Japan’s loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for Year 1947.

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society. Year 1980.

The title refers to the common time for bullfights, and the story involves an ambitious young torero on his way up the ladder of success, and an older one on his way down, a bitter view of the popular Spanish spectacle. Year 1960.

A martial artist/doctor steals from the corrupt authorities as a masked thief to give to the poor while another martial artist/doctor is forced to hunt him down. But a major threat unites them as a powerful and traitorous shaolin mon Year 1993.

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering Year 1999.

A woman falls in love with a visiting calvary captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter. Year 1968.

“Yahia”, a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Between his dreams, which up to Hollywood, and constraints of his life in the middle class, trying to be a new Hamlet with his uprising dreams wondering Year 1979.

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named “Easternstan” and “Westernstan” loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He’s Year 1984.

When the police raid the compound of a religious cult, they discover that almost all of the members have committed suicide. The only survivor, laying on an altar in the middle of the room, is a very pregnant woman who goes into labor Year 1998.

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta. The space in which the placenta is buried is called ‘Zan Boko’ – a phrase w Year 1988.