Starring: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes.
Fresh out of prison for car theft, Dick Kanipsia goes to visit a fellow ex-con, Harry Moss, and arrives just in time to see him gunned down by faceless assassins. Dick tracks down Harry’s friend Barry (Peter Boyle), who reveals that he and Harry had a small fortune they entrusted to a shady investment expert years ago. Dick and Barry form an uneasy partnership and, with the help of a sexy drifter named Kitty, try to trace the money.
THE OTHER SIDE OF MADNESS (aka THE HELTER SKELTER MURDERS) is the shocking true story of the Charles Manson death cult! A nightmare of TERROR! The DOCUMENTED re-enactment of the horrifying Beverly Hills mass killings that shocked the world! Murder… without reason… without mercy… BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION!
A police officer becomes obsessed with a sadistic killer called “The Zebra Killer” who has kidnapped his girlfriend and discoveries many murders along the way while tracking him down.
In suburban Perth during the mid 1980s, people are unaware that women are disappearing at the hands of serial killer couple John and Evelyn White. After an innocent lapse in judgment, seventeen year old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted by the disturbed couple. With her murder imminent, Vicki realizes she must find a way to drive a wedge between Evelyn and John if she is to survive. Hounds of Love is an exercise in expertly-crafted tension, offering a bold, challenging debut from writer/director Ben Young.
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they’ve done in CURE.
The unnerving 1997 thriller Cure, directed by contemporary master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa, follows an investigator as he looks into a string of gruesome murders around Tokyo—and discovers that the murderer may be out of his or her mind. It’s a remarkably disturbing, atmospheric suspense film, compelling up to its last haunting frame. – Criterion
