Psychosexual dramas 2

1992 film directed by Louis Malle

Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.

2016 film by Anna Biller

1964 horror film directed by Roger Corman

18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.

一个年轻的拿破仑军官追踪一个神秘的女人而来到一个年迈男爵的城堡，在那里他发现这个女人是听命于一个老巫婆，其最终目的是迫使男爵自杀……
Roger directed for two days on a set left over from a previous production, and without a proper script. He hired Francis Coppola to write a script and finish the picture. After five weeks of shooting, Roger fired Francis, and hired me to finish the picture. Jack Hill was hired to write a new script with me. A lot of what Francis shot was thrown out, except for the stuff with the witch from WIZARD OF OZ. (Dorothy Newman), and I finished the picture in five days of shooting. All of the interiors are Roger's (with the exception of Francis's witch's lair), and most of the exteriors are mine. To the best of my recollection, and contrary to legend, Jack Nicholson did not direct any of the film.

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

1980 film directed by Paul Schrader

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.@

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

故事始于一段浪漫的恋情，两名主人公来自截然不同的世界，一个是曾经纵情声色犬马而今独自一人渴望真爱的Danny（本·卫肖 Ben Whishaw 饰），一个是神秘寡言英国军情六处总部的间谍Alex（爱德华·霍尔克罗夫特 Edward Holcroft 饰）。即使出身和性格迥然不同，二人度过了最美好的一段时光。
然而浪漫的恋爱故事并未向顺利的方向进行，不久后Alex神秘失踪，Danny开始一步步追查，一个个神秘线索把他引向一个让他窒息的可怕事实。他发现自己已经卷入了一个纷繁复杂又危机重重的间谍世界。他能否凭一己之力，与这个强大的对手斗争到底，找出真相？

《别名格蕾丝》的主角格蕾丝·马克斯是一位贫穷、年轻的爱尔兰移民，在上加拿大地区当家庭女佣。1843 年，她和马厩工人詹姆斯·麦克德莫特被控残忍谋杀雇主托马斯·金尼尔和管家南希·蒙哥马利。詹姆斯被判处绞刑，而格蕾丝则被判处终身监禁。在这桩耸人听闻的双重谋杀案中，格蕾丝扮演的角色使她成为 19 世纪 40 年代加拿大最令人费解、最恶名昭著的女性，她在狱中服刑 30 年，最终无罪释放。人们对她的定罪
争议纷纷，格蕾丝究竟是谋杀的参与者还是对此不知情，引发了激烈的争论。

In this very late 60's irreverent, almost anarchic low-budget film, Brian De Palma defines more of his strange, given Hitchcock-like fascination of voyeurism, and attacks the issues of the day. The most prominent of which, both cringe-inducing and just plain funny, is when he focuses on the black-power movement (a black woman handing out fliers asking white people 'do you know what it's like to be black'), which is something that could only work for that time and place, not before or now.
But one of the key things to the interest in the film is 27 year old Robert De Niro (not his first or last film with the director), who plays this character who sits in a room looking out through his telescope at women in their rooms, setting up phony deals, and in the end basically throwing bombs. Those who have said that De Niro can't act and just is himself in every movie should see this movie, if only out of some minor curiosity. A couple of times in the film it's actually not funny, as when there's a disturbance in a black-power meeting (filmed in a grainer, rougher style than the rest of the film).
In the end it's capped off with a rambling monologue in an interview that tops De Niro's in King of Comedy. It's pretty obvious where De Palma's career would go after this, into slightly more mainstream Hollywood territory, but all of his trademarks are here; the dark, almost nail-biting comedy, the perfectly timed style of voyeurism, and interesting usage of locals. Think if De Palma and De Niro did a Monty Python film, only even more low-budget and in its New York way just as off-the-hinges, and you got Hi, Mom! It also contains an eccentric and funny soundtrack.
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This entertaining encounter with the premier of sonic avant-garde is acidic, fun-poking, and full of rich and rare archival footage. This documentary bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few myths about the man himself. World Premiere

1966 film directed by Jacques Rivette