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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966)
6.8/10
Director: Russ Meyer
Starring: Tura Satana, Haji
Russ Meyer's ode to the violence in women; this is the story of a new breed of superwomen emerging out of the ruthlessness of our times. We are introd... Read more
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Director: Shunya Ito
Starring: Meiko Kaji
Experimental and exploitation cinema meet in this subversive feature. The film follows a woman named Matsu (a.k.a. "Scorpion"), wrongly imprisoned aft... Read more
The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen) (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Koivula
Khaled, a Syrian refugee stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, Wikström is a traveling salesman who wins big at a poker table and buys him... Read more
The Loneliest Planet (2011)
5.5/10
Director: Julia Loktev
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Hani Furstenberg
Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are young, in love and engaged to be married. The summer before their wedding, while backpacking... Read more
Supervixens (1975)
6.1/10
Director: Russ Meyer
Starring: Shari Eubank, Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, Charles Pitts, Haji
Russ Meyer's 'Supervixens' is the epitome of twenty years of gut-tearing film making, a rural 'Fellini', geared to the young and old alike, the sophis... Read more
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
7.7/10
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Imprisoned and sentenced to hang for the murders she committed to avenge her family, Yuki is given a reprieve by the mysterious Kikui, a secret govern... Read more
Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994)
3.4/10
Director: Michael Schroeder
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Zach Galligan, Khrystyne Haje, Richard Lynch
For 200 years the humans built cyborgs to be their friends and to fight their wars. But now the last of the great corporations is dead and humans hun... Read more
Children of Heaven (1997)
8.3/10
Director: Majid Majidi
Starring: Mohammad Amir Naji, Karnal Mirkarimi, Amir Farrokh Hashemian
This acclaimed heart-warming tale follows two young siblings in an Iranian city as they try to keep the loss of their sister's only shoes from their p... Read more
Joy of Madness (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Hana Makhmalbaf
Starring: Agheleh Rezaie, Agheleh Farahmand, Bibigol Asef, Sima Asef, Haji Rahmodin, Razi...
Based on the premise that nobody would notice a 14-year-old girl brandishing a handheld camera, Hana Makhmalbaf, daughter of renowned Iranian filmmake... Read more
Lady Snowblood (1973)
7.7/10
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Her father, a schoolteacher, is brutally murdered. Her mother is beaten, raped, and forced into prostitution to survive, only to die giving her life.... Read more
The Shaolin Temple (1979)
5.9/10
Director: Xinyan Zhang
Starring: Jet Li, Yue Hai, Yue Chen Wei
This was the first Hong Kong- Kung Fu action film to be shot in mainland China, and also Jet Li's first major film, 18 year-old Jet Li brings his incr... Read more
Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons (2008)
8.6/10
Director: James Kent
Starring: David Suchet, Adam de Ville, Raji James, Harriet Walter, Don Gallagher
Agatha Christie's much loved detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) tackles an intriguing and dangerous murder case involving international espionage... Read more
Baran (2001)
7.8/10
Director: Majid Majidi
Starring: Hossein Abedini, Mohammad Amir Naji, Zahra Bahrami, Hossein Rahimi, Hossein Mahj...
From the acclaimed director of "Children of Heaven" comes the uplifting tale of the relationship between 17-year-old worker Lateef and the illegally... Read more
The Quiet American (2002)
7.1/10
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Set in early 1950s Vietnam, as French involvement in the ongoing civil war was winding down and before America's entry, director Phillip Noyce's thoug... Read more