Mulheres da Beira (1923), Os Lobos (1923) 2 x DVD9

Version restored by the Portuguese cinematheque. Fantastic masterpiece of European silent film.

Mulheres da Beira (1923)
Ana, a beautiful young peasant woman, never cares for the love Andre showers on her. Dreaming of a wealthy future ahead, she finds herself caught in the web of a sinister seduction of Fidalgo da Mo…

Os Lobos (1923)
Cabreira Hill. A village dominated by patriarchal tradition: the woman takes care of the household or picks up wood; the man takes care of the cattle or chops down trees to produce coal. After doing time for a crime of passion, a sailor arrives, becoming an element of fascination, changing things.
It is a very realistic film where we can see how people lived on the 20's on the country side in Portugal and how a man can change the life of so many different people just because of his way of seeing love and life.

2 x DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:28:14 + 01:20:14 | 5.72 Gb + 7.06 Gb
Language: Portugues intertitles
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Silent

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Kollektivet / The Commune (2016) DVD9

An emotional and intensely focused lead performance from Trine Dyrholm carries this new movie from Danish director and Dogme 95 veteran Thomas Vinterberg, shot on HD digital video.

The setting is 1975, the location a well-heeled coastal suburb north of Copenhagen. A little bored with her staid midlife routine, TV newsreader Anna (Trine Dyrholm) persuades her stuffy college lecturer husband Erik (Ulrich Thomsen) to turn his newly inherited family home into a commune. Together with their 14-year-old daughter, Freja (Martha Sofie Wallstrom Hansen), they fill the house with bohemian friends and eccentric strangers. Soon this rambling suburban mansion is abuzz with rowdy dinner parties, domestic power struggles and — this being Scandinavia — full-frontal nudity.
Predictably, sunny utopian idealism takes a stormy turn when infidelity and sexual jealousy cloud the picture.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:47:10 | 5.29 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Dansk
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Fares Fares, Trine Dyrholm
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
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Tower of London (1962) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Arrow Video

Having made their mark on American horror cinema with three colourful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe – The Fall of the House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum and Tales of Terror – Vincent Price and director Roger Corman enjoyed a brief hiatus from the macabre author with Tower of London. Shot in black and white, the film was loosely based on the Universal horror picture of the same name as well as two Shakespeare plays: a dash of Macbeth and a dollop of Richard III.

The film opens in April of 1483. England's King Edward IV lies on his deathbed, and, surrounded by his family and several loyal subjects, declares his brother, the Duke of Clarence, the Protector of the Realm, which makes him the legal guardian of the two young princes, future king Edward V and Richard. In turn, the king asks his other brother Richard (Price) to be Clarence's closest advisor and right-hand man. But Richard is ambitious, and instead leads Clarence into a wine cellar and plunges a dagger into his back. As a result, Richard is proclaimed Protector the moment Edward IV dies, and aided by Sir Ratcliffe, he eliminates all those who stand between him and the throne of England. But as Richard will discover, the path to the monarchy is not without its perils, and each and every day, he is haunted by the spirits of those he's killed, pushing him to the brink of insanity.

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