Lou Castel

Lou Castel

Birthday: 1943-05-28

Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia

Biography: Lou Castel (born Ulv Quarzell; 28 May 1943) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films.

Movies

Obscene Desire
Obscene Desire

A young American woman moves to a large countryside villa with her newlywed Italian husband. Soon en...

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The Nada Gang
The Nada Gang

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They...

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Galileo
Galileo

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the un...

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The Cassandra Crossing
The Cassandra Crossing

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off t...

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Irma Vep
Irma Vep

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a re...

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Beware of a Holy Whore
Beware of a Holy Whore

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st...

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About Special Effects
About Special Effects

This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avan...

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Heartbeat Detector
Heartbeat Detector

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business....

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Paranoia
Paranoia

Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes ...

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Fists in the Pocket
Fists in the Pocket

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfuncti...

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Dear Michele
Dear Michele

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who i...

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Bungalow
Bungalow

A young German soldier named Paul goes AWOL and returns to his childhood home in the countryside. Ov...

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Clement
Clement

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in th...

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Come Play With Me
Come Play With Me

Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt L...

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Matalo! (Kill Him)
Matalo! (Kill Him)

A gang of cattle thieves rescue a criminal from the gallows, and later rob a stagecoach loaded with ...

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What Time Is It?
What Time Is It?

A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their...

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Pigs Have Wings
Pigs Have Wings

Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young peo...

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Kill and Pray
Kill and Pray

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a...

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A Pugni Chiusi
A Pugni Chiusi

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Change of Sex
Change of Sex

Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual....

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Fish Soup
Fish Soup

The daughter of a known filmaker finds herself in her father's family home, with the whole family....

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La rabbia
La rabbia

A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represent...

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Eye of the Astronomer
Eye of the Astronomer

During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands...

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Mr. Mean
Mr. Mean

With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of t...

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She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there a...

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Everyday Objects
Everyday Objects

Merle follows the invitation of her lover to spend the summer in the South of France. She is surpris...

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Perduta
Perduta

The tragic story of a runaway girl in the 1970s in Verona....

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La lapidation de Saint Étienne
La lapidation de Saint Étienne

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his ...

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Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherh...

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The Eyes, the Mouth
The Eyes, the Mouth

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lo...

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Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Voyage to Grand Tartarie

After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a jou...

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With What Love, With What Love
With What Love, With What Love

After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andrea discovers that his partner Franc...

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Manila paloma blanca
Manila paloma blanca

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Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, bu...

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Man on Fire
Man on Fire

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daug...

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Marx Can Wait
Marx Can Wait

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met befor...

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Could It Happen Here?
Could It Happen Here?

Three terrorists—a rebel girl from an upper-class family, a teacher who despises capitalism, and an ...

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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a chil...

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Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
Love Is the Beginning of All Terror

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, ...

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The Protagonists
The Protagonists

An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sa...

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Stress
Stress

The film centers on young revolutionary student Gilberto who is being sought by the police. To avoid...

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A Stranger Came by Train
A Stranger Came by Train

An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusade...

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Parano
Parano

Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life. Unfortun...

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Dr. Ketel - Der Schatten von Neukölln
Dr. Ketel - Der Schatten von Neukölln

Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collap...

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The Birth of Love
The Birth of Love

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly youn...

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Louise (Take 2)
Louise (Take 2)

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" awar...

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Love
Love

Cesare used to be a star, a long time ago. The venues have become smaller and the audiences more cru...

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Sweet War, Farewell
Sweet War, Farewell

A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years befo...

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Trauma
Trauma

Maria has suffered from depression since the death of her child, and goes to live in a lonely house ...

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Earth
Earth

When I wake will I be someone else?...

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A Bullet for the General
A Bullet for the General

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries....

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Sinon, oui
Sinon, oui

Based on a true story this emotionally wrenching character study focuses upon a desperate young wife...

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The American Friend
The American Friend

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...

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High Grounds
High Grounds

A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medi...

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Planet Venus
Planet Venus

Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an ...

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Killer Nun
Killer Nun

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of les...

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A Girl Named Yssabeau
A Girl Named Yssabeau

Set in a distant and unknown land, the film follows the journey of a young woman named Yssabeau and ...

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Sorrisi asmatici: fiori del destino
Sorrisi asmatici: fiori del destino

The story of certain "wayfarers", whose origin is linked to each of the four elements. Lucas Belvaux...

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Fraulein
Fraulein

A German woman and a former French prisoner of war live in 1950s Germany. Instead of playing a role ...

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The Nun
The Nun

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a conven...

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C.I.A. Secret Story
C.I.A. Secret Story

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lo...

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Encore
Encore

The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of thi...

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Three Lives and Only One Death
Three Lives and Only One Death

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fai...

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Closet Children
Closet Children

A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by ...

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Campo Europa
Campo Europa

A young Swiss woman on vacation in Italy, has a relationship with an Italian writer and is strugglin...

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A Need for Change: The Making of 'Fists in the Pocket'
A Need for Change: The Making of 'Fists in the Pocket'

Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'....

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Flesh Color
Flesh Color

Anna is a coach and a stripper at night....

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Violanta
Violanta

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta....

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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the...

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Little Girls
Little Girls

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. ...

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I Want Something And I Do Not Know What
I Want Something And I Do Not Know What

In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis w...

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Flight from Paradise
Flight from Paradise

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashbac...

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Pure as a Lily
Pure as a Lily

Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful...

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Shadow
Shadow

Renato, a depressed man with a troubled past, thinks his luck has finally changed when he meets the ...

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Nanou
Nanou

A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-clas...

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1, 2, 3, Whiteout
1, 2, 3, Whiteout

In a future present, a rebellious Veronique finds herself working for an inventor who has dedicated ...

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Lucrezia
Lucrezia

Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia....

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Jean-Jacques
Jean-Jacques

Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason w...

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Output
Output

A young filmmaker becomes involved with a gangster in Berlin. Based on the Ulf Miehe novel Ich hab'...

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Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (...

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Die Geschlechtskriegerinnen
Die Geschlechtskriegerinnen

The ensemble film THE GENITAL WARRIORS takes a look at the common past of the three main characters ...

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The Leopard
The Leopard

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g...

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Amours décolorées
Amours décolorées

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, danc...

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Look Up
Look Up

During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He ...

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El Cantor
El Cantor

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, ar...

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Paradise Hotel
Paradise Hotel

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives i...

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Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia
Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia

On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new vi...

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Paris Is Us
Paris Is Us

Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social t...

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In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its v...

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Nailed Lips
Nailed Lips

A young commissioner investigates the murder of a Sicilian criminal with the help of a social worker...

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Les rues de Pantin
Les rues de Pantin

Kogo, a Japanese filmmaker, has come to spend a few days in Pantin with an old friend. He is avoidin...

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Medea Miracle
Medea Miracle

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act ...

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Arizona Road
Arizona Road

The head of a gang of criminals in Arizona tries to kidnap a girl, but is hindered in his intentions...

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I Feel Good
I Feel Good

He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his ...

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Avec Mariola
Avec Mariola

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Promenaux
Promenaux

Despite the stress and anguish associated with living in the city, as a place it remains a inexhaust...

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Couple
Couple

Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wis...

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Drive Me Home
Drive Me Home

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different l...

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Nuits transparentes
Nuits transparentes

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montrea...

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L'Opération de la dernière chance
L'Opération de la dernière chance

"What I like about the journey, is the surprise you find when your back. It is not me who said it, i...

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Le corps sublime
Le corps sublime

Fiction-documentary about the short life of the photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) who used ...

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Rorret
Rorret

Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror...

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Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?
Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a mur...

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Year of the Gun
Year of the Gun

American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan...

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1968 The Braibanti Trial
1968 The Braibanti Trial

Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fas...

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Cinématon XIII
Cinématon XIII

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

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Gare du Nord
Gare du Nord

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry...

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Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti
Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy a...

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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man t...

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Hotel de l'Univers
Hotel de l'Univers

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flande...

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Tiresia
Tiresia

Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transgender woman who is kidnapped by a man and left ...

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Life Doesn't Scare Me
Life Doesn't Scare Me

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things....

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Gli angeli del potere
Gli angeli del potere

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Saint Paul's Bride
Saint Paul's Bride

Towards the end of the sixteenth century, a group of musicians accompany a young woman bitten by a t...

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Policeman
Policeman

In order not to go hungry, as has happened to his family members, a young southern man enlists in th...

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Nude, Descending...
Nude, Descending...

A renowned art forger is trying to finish his version of a Lichtenstein painting but he can’t find a...

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Assoud le Buffle
Assoud le Buffle

A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the begi...

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Assoud et les fantômes de La Havane
Assoud et les fantômes de La Havane

Assoud, known as "The Buffalo", and his sister Louise are private detectives. One day, a mysterious ...

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Horezon
Horezon

The story of a young man who does not understand what he says or does. At least that's what he says....

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