The Pennhurst Asylum
A terrible place when it was operational and still capable of generating fear in the few people who have had the courage to visit it after its closure.
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Black Cat Day
Black cats have a bad reputation in many countries, but nowhere as much as in Italy. In 1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull declaring them instruments of the devil, initiating a true persecution throughout the Middle Ages, when black cats were thrown into the fire to join witches on the pyre.
The Life of David Gale
What do we think about the death penalty?
Can we arrogate the right to decide when someone should die?
Maniac
Frank Zito is a middle-aged man of large stature who hides behind solitude and silence a troubled past marked by a stormy and violent relationship with his mother.
Max Schreck – Count Orlok of Nosferatu and His Legends
Max Schreck – Count Orlok of Nosferatu: Myth and Reality of a Horror Cinema Legend Max Schreck, a German actor from the…
Brooklyn’s Finest
Three police officers working in the 65th precinct in northern Brooklyn, caught between violence and corruption, each struggle to fight their personal demons.
Frontiers
A group of young robbers takes advantage of the riots in Paris to attempt a bank heist. The robbery goes terribly wrong, and the robbers, pursued by the police, are forced to flee and split up. Some of them find refuge in a seedy and isolated inn owned by some local farmers near the border with Belgium.
Torso
The film begins with a series of brutal murders terrorizing a university in Perugia. The victims are young female students, and the killer’s particularly macabre method is strangling them with a red scarf. The police are in the dark, unable to find a connection between the murders.
Traffic
A multi-character film that intertwines the stories of various individuals around one central theme: the international drug trade.