film Noir Wordl Cinema incl. FREE STREAMS 

Originally, the film noir - or black series or films of the night - was inspired by cheap penny novels. Crime stories translated from the American and especially popular in France. Very important: at no point is a happy ending foreseeable. That's why these films are set at night, in dark, smelly alleys or crummy bars with back exits. To top it all off, there is ALWAYS smoking in film noir. As if life wasn't bad enough already. Sometimes the noir protagonists even smoke at each other in anger. Women in film noir are called femme fatales. You'd rather kill them than love them (and vice versa, because femme fatales like to be armed). The femme fatales wear a lot of makeup, hat, lipstick - and they always call the doormen of cheap hotels by their first names. The basic equipment also includes: high heels, red dresses. They are skilled at mixing drinks and they have a weakness for alcoholic private detectives. When they die, they lie dead, artfully arranged, on the floor. Every hair is in place. As for the men (=private detectives): they live in hotels, always wear suits and ties, love house bars and cars with running boards. Classic film noir is black and white, and the modern spin-offs at least feel that way. No other genre ever created a world so full of doom, doom and betrayal.

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Submarine 

Craig Roberts, who plays Oliver Tate, the hero from Submarine, looks like a young poet: Curious and self-important. But he is also a young teenager, still virginal and insecure. Oliver fits like a glove to the film, which strikes a typical British note. It was shot in Swansea, Wales. Sometimes I thought Oliver himself was the author of his own biopic (the film and the leading actor fit together so well!). Oliver's beloved is called Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige). Jordana knows that very few teenagers have what it takes to be a self-confident leader, while all the others doubt themselves for the rest of their lives. Jordana is not particularly beautiful, and she has as little sexual experience as Oliver. In contrast to him, however, she is self-confident. Oliver also supervises his parents. His father (Noah Taylor) looks like an aging hippie, his mother (Sally Hawkins) like a housewife in search of meaning. Oliver knows everything about her sex life because he inspects the light buttons in the house: Bright light: No sex. Matt light: Sex. Usually the light is bright. The mother meets the self-proclaimed mystic Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine), who makes spiritual speeches in a kind of village disco. Oliver suspects his mother of having a relationship with the weirdo. He also wants to have sex with Jordana! Fortunately, Submarine is not a bland teen sex comedy. Debutante Richard Ayoade filmed the whole thing in this egocentric style, which likes to play around with intertitles or such tricks, just to freeze the picture. However, you have to give him credit for the fact that he doesn't desperately try to be especially clever. Submarine captures exactly those delicate moments in life when idealism and trust flourish for the first timid experiments. When Jordana and Oliver kiss, it actually seems as if they are doing it for the first time. Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are really adorable in their roles, so you almost forget how tasteless many teen movies are! Submarine looks fresh and real, as if it were made by real teenagers! Not by the blunted perspective of an adult trying to remember - Submarine is adolescent in the best sense of the word!

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE! Dario Argento - Suspiria 

"The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92"; announced the movie poster by Dario Argentos Suspiria. When we founded our video store, Suspiria was not available on DVD in Germany. Still not today. In the wish box, which I had screwed on before the shop, I found disproportionately often wish lists, which Dario Argento - Suspiria demanded. And rightly so! The high expectations that such a cinema poster arouses are even exceeded by Suspiria! We experience an outburst of sound, and IMAGES and rage and anger! Suspiria combines horror, developed from the gut with avant-garde. Never again did a horror movie look so fantastic! Meanwhile Argento can unfortunately be considered as one of the filmmakers, who run after her old form for decades; but we can probably all agree on Suspiria! During the 1970s and into the 1980s Argento was able to gather behind him a community of geeks with the traits of a sect. Every one of his latest films was expected like a miracle! All over the world Argento was mentioned in the same breath as the greatest Italian directors - but not in Germany. None of his classics were accessible to us, so we Berliners went to the Videodrom to borrow imported VHS. To see Argento too! Just in time, on my 18th birthday, I stood in the Videodrom (and not in school) to have a membership card made. Like so many before him, Argento began as a critic and screenwriter (he wrote the script for Once_Upon_A_Time_In_The_West). From 1970 he established himself with his own films in the Giallo area. Argento's career began with an uncanny success, which was surpassed by two others. Like any good auteur, he tried foreign genres, made a comedy to return to his nerve-shattering shocks. In the mid-1970s he decided to expand his style. Argento dedicated himself to the supernatural, discovered Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey from 1845 and wrote based on the novel Suspiria. By the way, together with his girlfriend, the actress Daria Nicolodi. Suspiria opens with a ballet student coming out of the dark night. She studies at the German Dance Academy in Freiburg, a place where schoolgirls are haunted by murderers at night. A series of bizarre incidents culminates in the realization that the founder of the school was a witch. Are we even dealing with a dance school? Or are we in a witches' Sabbath? Argento had traditionally told his Giallo films before Suspiria. Here he decided to sacrifice everything we are used to in conventional structures. Suspiria is a sensation! Suspiria seems like an extremely dark adult version of the fairy tales we feared as children. A film like a nightmare that also follows the logic of a dream. A work of art that gets out of control! Visually, Suspiria appears like a baroque painting, although here too all borders are crossed. I think Argento used everything that was on the market in terms of filters, visual concepts, mirrors and light effects, chases after what's happening with the camera, doesn't give us a break. Which film was so far ahead of its time? Famous are the pictures of the murders, which seem like decadent arrangements. Right at the beginning, the camera moves into the body of a murdered girl to the heart that was punctured. In general, Argento staged the series of murders at the ballet school like a ballet. Splatter becomes art here, the most eerie moments are also the most enchanting. Argento has therefore been accused of being an enemy of women: beautiful women are stabbed in breathtaking sets. However, in Suspiria it is almost exclusively women who play with such charismatic stars as Jessica Harper, Jon Bennett and Alida Valli, who had long since made film history. The stylistic excess with which Suspiria ends in the apocalypse finally makes us realize that Argento had sounded out his style in its entirety. Was there any more? I don't think so! After all, Suspiria is the first part of a trilogy that ended in 1980 with Inferno and in 2007 with Mother Of Tears. Of course, the successor is even more exaggerated and even less interested in action or logic. We also understand a little bit Argentos decline, because basically nobody wanted to see Mother Of Tears anymore. But Suspiria is a unique cinematic experiment that has been passed down from generation to generation. One of the great classics in the history of cinema!

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Unbroken 

Kidnapping thrillers like to lull us into a false sense of security during the first scenes. They show the happy everyday life, the normal rhythm of life, before it is broken. In Unbroken, this is not so. Right at the beginning, the heavily pregnant detective Alex Enders (Aylin Tezel) disappears without a trace. Then she reappears in the darkness, which almost looks like a nightmare landscape. Half naked and covered in blood. She can't remember anything. She only knows that she was kidnapped and that her baby was taken from her. Alex knows only one goal: she wants to find her child. This is the premise of the ZDF Neo series Unbroken, tailored to Aylin Tezel. Those who know earlier films with her will remember that Tezel often presented the subject of pregnancy. Once she got pregnant during a one night stand in a techno club. Unintentionally. In the same way, she became pregnant unintentionally as the daughter of a large family - difficult to convey. As a crime scene investigator, she finally aborted the child. Is it a woman's primal fear of losing her child? This is the basis of the series concept by Andreas Linke and Marc O. Seng. In six chapters, we experience Alex's tour de force. Unbroken relies entirely on the acting skills of Tezel, who has already mastered other difficult roles and physically pushes herself to her limits. What's special about Unbroken is that Alex's personal stroke of fate slowly develops into a gripping thriller. It is amazing that Unbroken, despite its ponderous beginning, does not immediately collapse under its symbolic weight. The subtle question during Alex's research: Certainty can overcome human doubt, when doubt is essential to preserving our humanity. Everything in Unbroken seems gloomy and constricted. A visual concept for people like Alex, who are cut off from the outside world. She has lost her memory and any certainty. Or did it all take place only in her head?

Film List Cyberspace incl. FREE STREAMS 

The space of data versus reality. The concept of virtual reality has existed since Stanislaw Lem. Fassbinder was one of the first to cast it in pictures; Welt am Draht is the model for Matrix. The computer-simulated small town in Fassbinder's TV film has given way to a humanity that, hanging on a drip, is administered simulated images. Our reality is not real, we are sitting on a fraud.

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE! Kelly Reichardt - Old Joy 

Mark and Kurt are old friends who meet for a weekend camping trip. Time enough to find out how much has changed in their lives over the years. It's pretty rainy. A fat snail glides over a boulder that lies picturesquely covered with green moss. An image that, for my sake, doesn't have that much to do with the story of these two friends, but fits right in! It just fits the trip of the two, who are on their way to a hot spring in Oregon. Kelly Reichardt obviously understands this. She introduces sustained images and sounds, leaving plenty of space and time. At one point, a bird chirps on the gutter. The film lingers. So do we. And the story? Mark (Daniel London) and Kurt (Will Oldham) get lost in the mountains on their way to the spring. They set up camp in a place filled with furniture that must have been dumped. There they spend their evening, drinking beer and shooting at cans. The next day, they find the spring, wallow in it a bit, and head out for the return trip to Portland. If you've ever been camping for a weekend, you know that two days seems like half an eternity. Just by moving around. Not much happens at all! But you can observe endless little things. Short impressions. Like in Old Joy. For example a snail crawling over a rock. Some customers of our video store might complain that it's all very slow. Slow cinema, as they say. But I mean: there is unspoken tension here, even discomfort, feelings of sadness, even horror. But all this takes place between the lines. The all-important moment: then, when the path branches off to the source.... Old Joy is a film that keeps its secrets. The secrets of the mind and the heart. They don't have to be revealed superficially. You can feel them and understand them. Obviously, Kurt longs for his past with Mark. Mark hears Air America - which somehow connects him to his former ideals. But today he seems frustrated. Almost numb. They live in a Blue State - and Mark dreams of a third party. Kurt must think he's a spiritual person. But maybe he just smokes too much dope. He lost contact with his old friends at some point. In the funniest scene of the film, he puts on a pair of plum-colored shorts - like a new age hippie of the early 80s. All the while, Kurt talks about enlightening journeys. But at a certain point, we realize that Kurt and Mark must have had all these conversations umpteen times before. Kurt is a loser. The kind of guy who, at forty, is still crashing on his friends' couch. He's disturbed that he's obviously not capable of leading an adult life. What does he want from Mark? Does he just want to turn back time? Is there even some sexual tension? Such questions move me long after Old Joy is over and make Reichardt's film an unflinching work!

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On a personal note: I have edited our catalog under movies and it says in front of each movie that you can find in good quality on youtube: FREE ON YOUTUBE In total there are 540 movies and each of them I have briefly reviewed. As a free netflix replacement.