Directed by Oldřich Lipský • Drama • With Rudolf Hrušínský , Olga Schoberová, Miloš Kopecký • 1978 • 102 minutes

Czech director Oldřich Lipský's beloved cult hit about a handsome but bumbling detective and a man-eating plant is an irresistible slapstick combination of 19th century James Bond gad...

Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Sina Razani, Reza Behboudi • 2008 • 89 minutes

Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W mystery / comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-meets-Tarantino vignettes.

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky • 1991 • 105 minutes

THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Ma...

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov • Drama • With Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky • 1991 • 103 minutes

THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Ma...

Directed by Jannik Hastrup, Flemming Quist Møller • Animation • With Bo Jakobsen • 1971 • 41 minutes

A psychedelic Danish animated kids' film in which a young boy, bored with the dreary Adult World, follows an enchanted tadpole into his bathtub where he discovers a surreal and musical undersea w...

Directed by György Kovásznai • Animation • With Vera Venzcel, Kornél Gelley • 1979 • 80 minutes

A truly unique and surreal animated musical comedy from Hungary by György Kovásznai about a high-strung window decorator about to be married who bursts into the apartment of his fiancée's best friend ...

Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Razie Mansori, Babak Karimi, Adel Yaraghi • 2020 • 136 minutes

Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's mind-bending mystery leapfrogs between...

Directed by Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia • Animation • With Mirela Gorea, Marcel Iures, Dan Condurache • 1984 • 71 minutes

In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta - whose highly advanced computer brain develop...

Directed by Arūnas Žebriūnas • Drama • With Gediminas Girdvainis, Vaiva Mainelytė • 1974 • 76 minutes

In the early 1970s, behind the Iron Curtain, Lithuanian director Arūnas Žebriūnas created one of the wildest rock operas of the decade. A mash-up of TOMMY, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, FIDDLER ON THE...

Directed by Achal Mishra • Drama • With Abhinav Jha, Bijay Kumar Sah, Prashant Rana • 2022 • 51 minutes

DHUIN is a stunning, novella-length portrait of a 25-year old street theatre actor (Abhinav Jha, in a breakout performance) who is desperate to leave his rural hometown of Darbhanga for Mumbai...

Directed by Juraj Jakubisko • Drama • With Gerhardt Karzel, Eddie Constantine • 1987 • 100 minutes

A bittersweet, slapstick cross between MONSTER SQUAD, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and the Island of Misfit Toys, FRECKLED MAX is a nostalgic Gothic fairytale from acclaimed Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko a...

Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Ainaz Azarhoush, Abed Abest • 2013 • 142 minutes

A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters straight out of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE are serving up grisly fare in Ira...

Directed by Prasanna Vithanage • Drama • With Sajitha Anthony, Dinara Punchihewa • 2019 • 104 minutes

From Prasanna Vithanage, one of Sri Lanka's most acclaimed directors, comes this sweeping historical drama of a Sinhala noble woman (Dinara Punchihewa) forced to choose between suicide or marria...

Directed by Jiří Weiss • Drama • With Karla Chadimová, Vít Olmer • 1963 • 107 minutes

Czech director Jiří Weiss's breathtaking B&W fairy tale is one of the most unjustly neglected treasures of 1960s fantasy filmmaking with overtones of Cocteau's BEAUTY & THE BEAST.  A handsome young shepherd (V...

Directed by Jean-François Laguionie • Animation • 1985 • 64 minutes

A teenage girl and her 173-year-old companion take an epic journey in French director Jean-François Laguionie's hauntingly poetic animated classic. A sublime masterpiece of world animation, GWEN is on par with René Laloux's FANT...

Directed by József Gémes • Drama • 1983 • 84 minutes

Hungarian director József Gémes' animated portrait of the supposedly "heroic" age of medieval knights and kings, a sprawling and bloody tapestry of ruthless combat to rival "Game Of Thrones." Based on an epic narrative poem by famed 19th centu...

Directed by Georgiy Daneliya • Drama • With Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze • 1986 • 133 minutes

Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa Solaris directing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and you'll come close to the existential weirdness of this loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy. Two...

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko • Drama • With Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Ninel Myshkova • 1956 • 92 minutes

Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping, visual F/X-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights,...

Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya • Drama • With Yûichi Minato, Miki Watari • 1967 • 87 minutes

Japanese director Atsushi Yamatoya's eerie, seedy and dreamlike film noir about a hitman seeking revenge for the death of his girlfriend, with fractured, time-bending overtones of John Boorman's POINT BLAN...

Directed by Oldřich Lipský • Drama • With Miloš Kopecký, Michal Dočolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Rudolf Hrušínský • 1981 • 99 minutes

A unique and almost indescribable mix of Gothic fiction, steampunk gadgetry (designed by Czech animation wizard Jan Švankmajer), slapstick comedy and romantic op...

Directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons • Drama • With Cyril Cusack, Mary Ryan • 1982 • 106 minutes

A major rediscovery for fans of folklore, fantasy and folk horror, the long-lost Irish film THE OUTCASTS was directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons, famed for writing on BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. THE OUTCASTS pla...

Directed by Jiří Barta • Animation • With Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus • 1986 • 53 minutes

Czech director Jiří Barta's stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches inspired by German ...

Directed by Miloš Makovec, Evald Schorm, Jiří Brdečka • Drama • 1969 • 100 minutes

The long-lost Sixties Czech occult horror anthology film Prague Nights is filled with magic, giant golems and satanic visitors. In the vein of horror anthologies like Bava’s Black Sabbath, this long-unseen gem is ...

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko • Drama • With Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov • 1972 • 145 minutes

The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, SAMPO), RUSLAN AND LUDMILA was a glorious and magical summation of his career. Based on an epic fairy...