Udo Kier
1) Courier-X
Author
Language
English
Description
A smuggler of black market merchandise is solicited by the CIA for deleterious involvement with Flight TWA 800 and to cover up a Nicaraguan blackmail attempt on the agency.
2) Swan Song
Author
Language
English
Description
A retired hairdresser Pat, escapes his small-town nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Pat embarks on a comical and bittersweet odyssey across town to confront the ghosts of his past.
Author
Language
English
Description
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers....
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
About 1000 feature films were made in Germany in the years between 1933-45. Only a few were overtly Nazi propaganda films. But by the same token, even fewer of them can be considered harmless entertainment. What does cinema know that we don’t know? In his world-renowned and groundbreaking documentary, film historian and critic Siegfried Kracauer, developed the idea of cinema as seismograph of its context and origin – a bellwether for the cultural...
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica...
6) Downsizing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and Audrey Safrane decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
7) Bacurau
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
After the matriarch of a small Brazilian village dies, its residents notice strange events surrounding them and a group of armed mercenaries descends on the village.
8) Swan Song
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A retired hairdresser Pat, escapes his small-town nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Pat embarks on a comical and bittersweet odyssey across town to confront the ghosts of his past.
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosinski novel, THE PAINTED BIRD is about one boy's journey through Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock. The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its...
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Udo Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls “one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas” – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro). Stefania Casini and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in “one of the most unique vampire films...
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Deranged scientist, Baron von Frankenstein, with the help of his bizarre assistant, Otto, is determined to create a new master race, of which he will be the leader. A delectably gory and cynical social satire from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Morrissey, FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is among the most original and transgressive interpretations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
14) American Animals
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The unbelievable but true story of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.
15) Keyhole
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick arrives home after a long absence towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been...
16) Bacurau
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A few years from now... BACURAU, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive...
17) Dracula.3000
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A salvage ship on a routine mission discovers a transporter vessel that had been reported missing 100 years earlier. When the salvage crew boards the vessel, they discover 50 long black coffins. In the blackness of space where the sun never rises, the ancient curse that this mysterious cargo carries begins to eliminate the crew one by one.
18) The Mountain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Also starring Denis Lavant and Udo Kier. Official...
19) Swan song
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The film follows retired hairdresser and local bar performer icon Pat Pitsenbarger who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client's dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past, and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. A comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering...
20) Downsizing
Language
English
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and Audrey Safrane decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.