Foreign Films

Are you a fan of samurai films, but wish they were somehow... dirtier? Welcome to the deranged world of Hanzo the Razor, a weird blend of swordplay and sexploitation. The first Hanzo movie, Sword of Justice, came out a year after Shaft and Dirty Harry and fuses the influence of both: stout and surly Hanzo (Shintaro Katsu), a rebellious yet obsessively moral samurai, is also enormously well-endowed and provides almost unbearable pleasure to the women he interrogates-- that is to say, rapes in the name of the law. Hanzo also tortures and blackmails without qualm as he slices through crime, uncovering corruption at higher levels in each progressive film. In Sword of Justice he overturns his own craven superiors; in The Snare, he breaks into a temple used by local magistrates for the sadistic... Less

The SEIS PELICULAS series presents a six film feature of Mexican action films starring genre icons including Mario Almada, Eleazar Garcia Jr., Gustavo Aguilar, in high-octane tales of greed, revenge, and corruption among the drug lords, police forces and border drug trade. La Ronda de la Muerte (1998) (94 mins), Miriam y su hermana Greta quedan huérfanas y radican en la capital encontrándose con mil problemas ya que no encuentran trabajo. Tiempo después Greta consigue trabajo en un centro nocturno en el cual conoce a un asesino que la induce a asesinar a políticos y eventualmente a se asesina de profesión. Le dan como encargo matar a un político de Tijuana llamado Macias, ella se enamora de el, lo cual no cumple con la misión por lo que secuestran a la hermana para así presionarla que... Less

There's a beautiful irony in the way that the most specific war tales are often the most universal. Set high in the imposing, isolated Caucasus mountains, where the 20th century meets ancient lifestyles, Sergei Bodrov's drama of the Chechyn war finds two opposing cultures locked in conflict for so long that the reasons seem moot. Young Russian grunt Vanya (Sergei Bodrov Jr., the director's son) and his jaded veteran Sergeant (Burnt by the Sun's Oleg Menshikov) survive an ambush by Chechyn guerrillas and wind up hostages of a village elder, a war-weary widower who has lost almost everything to fighting and wants merely to swap them for his POW son. Bodrov's humanism is directed with empathy and stirred with harsh realism--he takes no sides and offers no fantasies of happy endings, only... Less

Luis is a young average 20 year old student who decides to take a course in London to complete his Masters in Economics. Upon moving to London with his mother Noelia, who is a quite the character, Luis is introduced to her younger sister Olivia whom he has never met before and happens to live right next-door. The comedy unfolds as he catches himself falling in love with his Aunt. Luis tiene 20 años y para realizar un master en Economía se marcha a Londres con su madre Noelia, una mujer de ideas bastantes liberales. En Londres vive Olivia, la hermana pequeña de Noelia, que está casada con un actor en paro. Pasado un tiempo, Noelia regresa a Madrid, no sin antes pedirle a Olivia que espabile un poco a Luis.