Cult Epics
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Deadly Sweet
Starring seventeen year old beauty contest winner Ewa Aulin and Jean-Louis Trintignant, DEADLY SWEET is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene...Watch Movie
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Genet
"I don't know why I shouldn't talk about myself. I'm the person who knows the most about myself. Right?" So begins a fascinatingly frank conversation with the great French writer Jean Genet, conducted in the summer of 1981 (five years before his passing) by actor, theater director, and filmmaker...Watch Movie
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Arrabal's second film, I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE (aka. J'IRAI COMME UN CHEVAL FOU) forsakes the political allegory present in VIVA LA MUERTE! for a dramatic discovery of faith and rejection of organized religion. The story follows a man, Aden, played by the American...Watch Movie
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In a Glass Cage
Klaus (GпїЅnter Meisner of THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL) is an ex-Nazi, a doctor whose wartime post in a concentration camp enabled him to commit the most appalling crimes against boys. After the war, living incognito in Spain, he again gives in to his depraved desires, until shame and despair drive him...Watch Movie
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Viva la muerte
VIVA LA MUERTE (LONG LIVE DEATH) centers on Fando (Mahdi Chaouch), a young boy whose father has been arrested for treason during the Spanish Civil War. Fando struggles with his father's arrest, and in a shocking moment discovers a letter in which his mother admits to betraying his father. His...Watch Movie
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Car Cemetery
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal's outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. The inhabitants of a junkyard at the edge of a nuclear crater live hand to mouth all the while being hounded by authorities from a corrupt...Watch Movie
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The Guernica Tree
Guernica is both a town that was leveled in a night of horror during World War II and an image, captured in paint by Pablo Picasso and on film by renegade surrealist Fernando Arrabal. THE GUERNICA TREE is Arrabal's most unflinching and personal film. It is a testimony to the...Watch Movie
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The Emperor of Peru
A charming and phantasmagoric children's film, THE EMPEROR OF PERU stars Mickey Rooney as an old railway engineer who convinces three children that they can fix up a decayed Pacific steam engine and use it to return a Cambodian refugee to his home country and maybe even save...Watch Movie
