97%
Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% love match is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line? Ben Brand’s second short film 97% is the last step towards his first… Continue Reading
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We are young by Lofelive
Lofelive is the best proof that Spain knows how to develop a trend. An unpredictable sound, intelligent and continuously evolving, arising from and respecting the rules of the electronic nuances of house dance and indie. Created with the aim of a… Continue Reading
Love potion # 9
Love Potion No. 9 is a 1992 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan. Inspired by the famous doo-wop song of the same title, it’s about a special elixir (Love Potion No. 8) that enables a person to make people of the opposite sex become completely infatuated with them by… Continue Reading
Lena
An emotionally engaging coming-of-ager set in Rotterdam, “Lena” features one of the most complex and endearing teen heroines of recent years. Continually onscreen and effortlessly carrying the film, non-pro Emma Levie bravely embodies the title character, while Christophe van Rompaey… Continue Reading
Wonder boys
Wonder Boys is an American 2000 comedy film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Steve Kloves. The film was based on the novel of the same title by Michael Chabon. Michael Douglas stars as professor Grady Tripp, a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university. He has been unable… Continue Reading
X + Y
X+Y (released in the US as A Brilliant Young Mind) is a 2014 British drama film directed by Morgan Matthews, starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, and Sally Hawkins. The film, inspired by Beautiful Young Minds, focuses on a teenage English mathematics prodigy named Nathan (Asa Butterfield) who has difficulty understanding people,… Continue Reading
Drive
Drive is a 2011 American neo-noir arthouse crime film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling,Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks. It is adapted from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hossein Amini. Like the book, the film is about an unnamed Hollywood stunt performer (played by… Continue Reading
In Bruges
In Bruges is a 2008 British-American crime-black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss. The film takes place, and was filmed, in the Belgian city of Bruges. In Bruges was the opening night film of… Continue Reading
Carlito’s way
Carlito’s Way is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, based on the novels Carlito’s Way and After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. The film follows the life of Carlito Brigante after he is released from prison and vows to go straight and retire. However,… Continue Reading
Amy
Amy is a 2015 British documentary film that depicts the life and death of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse and is directed by Asif Kapadia. The narrative is focused in Winehouse’s life, who was found dead on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North… Continue Reading
Victoria
Victoria is a 2015 German drama film directed by Sebastian Schipper, starring Laia Costa and Frederick Lau. The film is shot in one single long take by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen from about 4:30 to 7:00 in the Kreuzberg and Mitte neighbourhoods. Victoria, a runaway party girl, is asked by three friendly men to join them… Continue Reading
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a 1994 American horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter and Branagh. When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. The… Continue Reading
À coeur joie
À coeur joie (Two Weeks in September in the english version) is a 1967 French film starring Brigitte Bardot directed by Serge Bourguignon. Too old to be a gamine yet not old enough for matronhood, Brigitte Bardot is the ideally cast leading lady of… Continue Reading
The crush
The Crush is an Irish live action short film written and directed by first-timer Michael Creagh, and produced by Damon Quinn. The story sees an eight-year-old schoolboy (played by Oran Creagh) fall in love with his teacher, Miss Purdy. One day he gives her a toy… Continue Reading
Young Adam
Young Adam is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by David Mackenzie. The screenplay is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi. The film is set in Scotland in 1954. Shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor works on a barge which operates from Glasgow,… Continue Reading
Vale
Spanish beer company Estrella Damm released its short film ‘Vale’ with Dakota Johnson, Quim Gutiérrez and Game of Thrones’ Natalia Tena; directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The film is basically about a typical american tourist named Rachel (played by Dakota) who… Continue Reading
Blue valentine
Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film named after the Tom Waits album of the same name, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. The film premiered in competition at the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and Michelle Williams and Ryan… Continue Reading
Apricot
A mysterious man with missing memories asks very personal questions to a beautiful woman. A short film by Ben Briand.
Mind the gap
Initially cross at having missed her train, suddenly she sees him on the opposite platform. A short film by Tom Darom and Arkady Ostrovsky.
I miss you
Directed by Anton Sheptooha and Nick L’Barrow, “I Miss You” is a short film based on Moonfruit Comic’s”Reasons.” With heartbreaking cinematography and perfectly-paced narration, the film examines the aftermath of a breakup, viewed through a nostalgic lens that follows a relationship’s beginning… Continue Reading
Leaving las vegas
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O’Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic who has ended his personal and professional life to drink himself to death in Las Vegas. While there, he… Continue Reading
Charlie Countryman
Charlie Countryman (originally known as The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) is a 2013 American-Romanian psychological romantic comedy-drama film directed by Fredrik Bond in his directorial debut, written by Matt Drake, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint and Aubrey Plaza. While traveling abroad, a guy falls for… Continue Reading
Manhattan
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe. The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his… Continue Reading
Help I’m alive by Metric
Metric are a Canadian rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion). The band started in 1998 as a duo formed by Haines and Shaw… Continue Reading
All I need by Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass), Phil Selway (drums, percussion, backing vocals) and Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals). Radiohead released their debut single “Creep” in 1992. It became a… Continue Reading
Die Blechtrommel
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin drum in the english version) is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff. Stylistically, it is a surrealistic black comedy. The film features scenes in which Bennent, then 11 years of age… Continue Reading
Me & you
In the short film Me & You, the stages of a love story between a man and a woman are depicted through a single location and camera angle–the man’s bedroom, as seen looking straight down from the ceiling. The film… Continue Reading
Vixen
Vixen is a 1968 satiric softcore sexploitation film directed by American motion picture director Russ Meyer. It was the first film to be given an X rating for its sex scenes, and was a breakthrough success for Meyer. The film was developed from a script by Meyer and Anthony James Ryan, and starred Erica Gavin. The… Continue Reading
The woman in red
The Woman in Red is a 1984 romantic comedy film starred and directed by Gene Wilder, who wrote the script, adapting it from the Yves Robert film Pardon Mon Affaire. San Francisco ad man Teddy Pierce (Wilder) is amused by, then obsessed with, a beautiful woman (Kelly LeBrock)… Continue Reading
Zu dir?
Zu dir? (Your place? in english) is an award winning Short film written and directed by Sylvia Borges. How much would you trust an almost stranger? What can things tell you about a character? Does a private place tell enough to… Continue Reading
Prag
Prag (Prague in english) is a 2006 award winning danish Film written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. A slowly crumbling relationship begins to collapse while a man performs an unpleasant family errand in this drama. Christoffer (Mads Mikkelsen) and… Continue Reading
The theory of everything
The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical coming of age romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron… Continue Reading
Через тернии к звёздам
A commercial success of stellar proportions upon its original USSR release, Richard Viktorov’s To the Stars by Hard Ways (the Russian title, Через тернии к звёздам (Per Aspera Ad Astra), translates literally as “Through the Ticket to the Stars”) became a cult hit amongst… Continue Reading
Maybe
What happens when a single cup of coffee is not enough? “Maybe” is about a moment where creativity and love come together. The moment just before asking someone out on a date can be tortuous. To think about what you… Continue Reading
Don’t call it a comeback
Serving as a “mini-sequel” from Ramin Serry’s indie feature film, Loveless, this short film focuses on the same central character, Andrew, a commitment-adverse Manhattanite lothario. In this particular adventure, he’s on a quest to round home plate with his drunken date.… Continue Reading
This is when we met
This is when we met is a short film written and directed by Sean Cunningham, about Robbie and Mary, a couple as they live out an entire relationship in three minutes.
Dark horse
Dark Horse is a 2005 Danish comedic drama film directed by Dagur Kári about a young man, his best friend, and a girl. Kári reworks several thematic and topical elements from his prior film, Nói Albinói. He also crafts a feature which brings together… Continue Reading
London
London is a 2005 independent film centering on a Manhattan party, which becomes a metaphor for the wasted lives of a handful of young hipsters in this edgy independent drama. Syd (Chris Evans) awakes from the latest in a long series of drug-… Continue Reading
Slogan
In Venice, forty-old-year old Serge Fabergé (Serge Gainsbourg) has just been given the best advertisement director award. While taking a walk on the Piazza San Marco, Serge meets Evelyn Nicholson (Jane Birkin), a twenty-three-year-old English beauty. He falls passionately in… Continue Reading
Non ti muovere
Non ti muovere (Don’t move in the english version) is a 2004 italian film directed by Sergio Castellitto. Timoteo (Castellitto), a surgeon, gets the shocking news that his fifteen-year old daughter Angela (Elena Perino) has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. As… Continue Reading