Empire of Passion

Naku onna(ja)

A couple agrees to surrogacy for childless couple who want to do it by natural insemination. But when the first attempt doesn’t take they try again… and again… and again.

Maruhi kyôsei-zai: Bed ga nureru(ja)

A woman works as a nude model for vinyl books. She breaks up with her cameraman, and starts living with a cute male university student. One day, she goes to the supermarket to buy a change of lingerie for a shoot, but realizes she doesn't have the money, so she shoplifts. There, she meets a middle-aged man that also shoplifts. She goes out drinking with the middle-aged man because of their affinity, and they end up in bed. The two start dating. The woman decides to invite the middle-aged man to her room because she thinks the two-way relationship between a college student and a middle-aged man is fun. When the two men run into one another, they are surprised. It turns out they are father and son! From there, the strange cohabitation of the three begin... And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Climax! Okasareru hanayome(ja)

The owner of a small roadside restaurant tries to arrange a marriage to a young woman who she adopted. But the woman falls for a truck driver who is in trouble with the yakuza.

Ijôna yubi: Yamete!(ja)

A peaceful morning. A leisurely breakfast scene of an ordinary family: father, mother, eldest daughter, second daughter, and eldest son. A commotion ensues when a man with a gun intrudes. The man begins to reveal the sexual habits of each member of his family, and while holding up a gun, tells them to recreate their sexual habits here. The mother masturbates with a vibrator, the eldest son has incest with his girlfriend's sister, the father secretly films the second daughter's naked body. The man's desire gradually escalates...

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Nickel Boys(en)

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Momoe's Lips: Love Beast(ja)

This year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the president of the production company, was using money, politicians, and women to secure his support. The remaining worry is Yoko Itsuki, who is about to marry her rival, popular actor Taura. So, in order to get rid of Yoko, he hires Mari Kusunoki, a trick girl who exposes star scandals. Set in the entertainment industry, where stars compete fiercely, the film depicts the secret actions of a "trick girl" who uncovers a scandal involving a popular singer.

Sekkusu dokku: Midarana chiryō(ja)

A sex therapist treats various couples who are having problems in bed.

Lucky Chan-sil(ko)

With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career.

Love Apprentices(de)

One of the many German "report" sexploitation films from the early 1970s, with the only distinction that it focuses on female apprentices instead of schoolgirls.

The Canal(en)

A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.

No Sleep: Fragments of Horror(en)

This collection of 25 nightmares vividly brought to film will keep you up at night as you recount the bloody madness and dark visions.

Penalty Loop(ja)

When Jun's lover is killed, he decides to kill her murderer. He's then stuck in a time loop and forced to relive the same day over and over, but he continues to kill the same man every day.

Trapezium(ja)

High school student Yu Azuma will do whatever it takes to become an idol. Ready to make her dream a reality, she recruits three girls from the four corners of her prefecture. But the road to stardom hides unexpected trials.

Watch Out(cn)

Watch Out is a Hong Kong Ghost-Comedy directed by Ang Saan and starring Stanley Fung.

I Love You, Hater(tl)

Joko is a boy trying to help his family survive, while Zoey is a girl hoping to prove herself to the world. Opportunity rises when Sasha is looking to hire a new personal assistant. Just one catch - they have to compete against each other! Will their own goals prevail, or will they set aside their differences and find true happiness and love in the end?

Bona(en)

Bona, a middle-class student, becomes infatuated with a struggling actor, Gardo, and drops out of school to live with him. She becomes his unpaid maid, performing chores and enduring his relationships with other women, in the hopes of reciprocation.

Campbell's Kingdom(en)

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.

La maison de la mémoire(en)

Based on the novel "L'avenir est un crime du passé" an autobiographical novel of Arab cameraman Rahal Amin Touati, and "The house of certain Death" written by Albert Cosseri.

Vampyr(de)

A superstitious drifter stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

In the Realm of the Senses(ja)

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Lady J(fr)

When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1(en)

Experience these masterpieces of storytelling from the creative minds that brought you Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and many more. With revolutionary animation, unforgettable music and characters you love, these dazzling short films have changed the face of animation and entertainment and are sure to delight people of all ages for years to come.

Equinox Flower(ja)

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Taboo(ja)

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

Pussy(pl)

A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined.

Death by Hanging(ja)

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Cruel Story of Youth(ja)

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

Violence at Noon(ja)

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe(it)

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.

Alphaville(fr)

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

People Like Us(en)

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

The Wild Bunch(en)

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Animal House(en)

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Ponyo(ja)

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

Oppenheimer(en)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Shutter Island(en)

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Titanic(en)

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood(en)

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…