victorfraga, Author at DMovies

Maysa Monção - 28-03-2017

Ben Wheatley's latest feature Free Fire is a bizarre and yet effective hybrid of opera and thriller, and it is guaranteed to keep your adrenaline pumping throughout - now on DVD, Blu-ray and EST [Read More...]

The man with the nightmare vision

Victor Fraga - 28-03-2017

Andrew Tiernan, the director of the dystopian extreme surveillance sci-fi UK18, talks about the rise of neofacism, why he thinks the UK is moving in the wrong direction, how his work with Derek Jarman influenced his latest project, and much more! [Read More...]

Graduation (Bacalaureat)

Christian Mungiu

Maysa Monção - 27-03-2017

Overcoming endemic corruption is a mammoth task for Romanians; the consequences for individuals striving to make a living are extremely toxic - in new film by the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [Read More...]

All These Sleepless Nights (Wszystkie Nieprzespane Noce)

Michal Marczak

Paulo Cesar Toledo/ Abigail Spindel

Linda Marric - 26-03-2017

Embark on a one-night binge into self-discovery throughout the streets of Warsaw with Michal and Krzysztof, in a semi-fictional feature by Michal Marczak - this week at the Barbican [Read More...]

Waiting for B

Victor Fraga - 26-03-2017

Beyoncé is far more than a pop star to these Brazilians queueing for two months to see their idol: she's an instrument for personal liberation in more ways than you can imagine - from Fringe! Queer Film Fest [Read More...]

I Love You Both

Doug Archibald

Victor Fraga - 25-03-2017

How much can two loving twins share? What about the same man? Lighthearted and heartfelt American LGBT romcom tests the allegiances of twins Krystal and Donnie - from BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival [Read More...]

Out of Iraq

Eva Orner/ Chris McKim

Petra von Kant - 23-03-2017

The humbling story of the impossible love between two gay Iraqi soldiers, which succeeds against all odds - from the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival. [Read More...]

Jesús

Fernando Guzzoni

Victor Fraga - 22-03-2017

Disturbing Chilean drama uses a famous real-life homophobic crime as a gauge for the strained relationship between a father and a son - streaming now with DMovies [Read More...]

Body Electric (Corpo Elétrico)

Marcelo Caetano

Victor Fraga - 21-03-2017

This brand new LGBT feature is a sexy, candid and colourful eulogy to Brazil's rich racial an sexual diversity - now on BFI Player [Read More...]

The Handmaiden

Park Chan-wook

Victor Fraga - 21-03-2017

Park Chan-wook's lesbian soft porn thriller has enough colour, vigour and libido to keep you hooked for nearly 150 minutes, but it's also bursting with unnecessary clichés and repetitions - in cinemas now [Read More...]

1:54

Yan England

Victor Fraga - 20-03-2017

What are the inevitable consequences of bullying? French Canadian LGBT drama exposes the disturbing face of high school life if you're gay, with a very surprising twist at the end - in the MyFrenchFilmFestival (online) [Read More...]

Centre of my World (Die Mitte der Welt)

Jakob M. Erwa

Victor Fraga - 20-03-2017

This fairy tale teen gay romance set in Germany takes a very unexpected turn, but not in the direction many LGBT fans would expect - now on BFI Player [Read More...]

Torrey Pines

Clyde Petersen

Petra von Kant - 18-03-2017

Deply nostalgic, puerile and unusual stop-motion animation portrays the coming-of-age tale of a transgender girl - showing right now at the BFI London LGBT Film Festival [Read More...]

The Good Postman

Tonislav Hristov

Maysa Monção - 17-03-2017

In a refreshing and welcomed twist on the rampant xenophobia intoxicating Europe, a Bulgarian postman campaigns to bring refugees into his ageing village [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Olivier Assayas

Victor Fraga - 15-03-2017

The director of the unusual blend of horror and fashion Personal Shopper and the classic lesbian romance Clouds of Sils Maria talks to the DMovies about his latest movie, which is out this weekend. [Read More...]

A Silent Voice (Eiga Koe no katachi)

Naoko Yamada

Jeremy Clarke - 15-03-2017

Groundbreaking and innovative Japanese drama about school children, bullying, remorse, isolation and self-loathing. And it’s animated. [Read More...]

The filmmaker who denounced the Brazilian coup d’état

Victor Fraga - 14-03-2017

The director of the internationally-acclaimed Brazilian drama Aquarius flies to London for his film release, and he talks to Victor Fraga from DMovies about fiery topics such as greedy real estate developers and the coup d'état in Brazil last year [Read More...]

The Salesman

Asghar Farhadi

Maysa Monção - 14-03-2017

The Foreign Oscar winning Iranian film is a multilayered and complex analysis of human frailties and social collapse, using Tehran as a backdrop and an American play as the paintbrush [Read More...]

The Eyes of my Mother

Nicolas Pesce

Victor Fraga - 14-03-2017

Ouch, that hurts! Eye-gouging and bloodcurdling American horror blends old-fashioned Lynchian and Cronenbergian devices to surprising results [Read More...]

Personal Shopper

Olivier Assayas

Victor Fraga - 14-03-2017

This very unusual French ghost movie is a kaleidoscope of genres, references and nationalities, hardly comparable to anything you've seen before - on Disney + UK on Friday, July 22nd; also available on other platforms [Read More...]

Get Out

Jordan Peele

Jeremy Clarke - 13-03-2017

She’s white, he’s black, they’re urban, he needs to meet her parents who live in a house on a huge estate out of town. His question: are they racist? - now now DVD, Blu-ray and VoD [Read More...]

Carol is a great film, just not a very dirty one

Victor Fraga - 12-03-2017

Outstanding acting? Tick. Superb direction? Tick. Greatest LGBT film of all times? I don't think so! Dirty movie? NO WAY!! Todd Haynes's Carol is indeed a masterpiece, but it also represents the consummation of the gay bourgeois ideal, making it a thoroughly sanitised piece of cinema [Read More...]

‘Tis time to Camp it up – with a capital C!!!

Lobo Pasolini - 11-03-2017

We asked our fabulously colourful and boisterous writer Lobo Pasolini to look into the history of Camp; he scribbled a couple deliciously dirty and plush sentences for us! [Read More...]

The Chamber

Ben Parker

Tim Grabham/ Jasper Sharp

Victor Fraga - 08-03-2017

You're trapped! Claustrophobic Welsh thriller set in the pitch-black depths of North Korean Yellow Sea is certain to cause you anguish and fear - out in cinemas [Read More...]

The Creeping Garden

2014

Jeremy Clarke - 07-03-2017

You wouldn’t make a documentary about slime mould unless you found it fascinating. These two filmmakers clearly do so and their enthusiasm is likely to win you over [Read More...]

The Love Witch

Anna Biller

Pedro Miguel - 07-03-2017

Elaine casts a heady spell on every man meets, and viewers too are certain to become intoxicated with this modern-day witch fairy tale [Read More...]

Burning Sands

Gerard McMurray

Maysa Monção - 06-03-2017

Is humiliation the way towards humility? Callous drama about hazing rituals in the US is our highlight of the week on Netflix [Read More...]

500 Years

Pamela Yates

Lina Samoili - 05-03-2017

The Mayan people have endured five centuries of ethnic cleansing and impunity in Guatemala; now they have raised their voice louder than ever in order to be heard on the other side of the Atlantics [Read More...]

Saving Banksy

Colin Day

Victor Fraga - 03-03-2017

The anti-capitalistic graffiti artist whose real identity remains as elusive as the giant squid is the subject of documentary available on iTunes [Read More...]

I am not your Negro

Raoul Peck

Anna Sandilands/ Ewan McNicol

Victor Fraga - 03-03-2017

Yes, it's that black and white: the future of the US will only be as bright or as dark as the future of the negroes - one of the best films if 2017 in now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Uncertain

Victor Fraga - 02-03-2017

Touching yet at times gruesome doc examines the lives of the outcasts in one of the most remote and unlikely places of the American Deep South - in cinemas and VoD [Read More...]

The Student

Kirill Serebrennikov

Jeremy Clarke - 02-03-2017

An obsession with the Bible drives a Russian secondary school student towards dark designs in a film with both religious and political ramifications. [Read More...]

Freaks is a radical diversity statement

Victor Fraga - 28-02-2017

Nearly a century on, Tod Browning's Freaks remains the most radical and misunderstood statement for diversity in film ever made [Read More...]

Moonlight and intersectionality

Victor Fraga - 27-02-2017

Moonlight's Oscar win was a tremendous achievement in the struggle against racism and homophobia; now let's be careful not to confuse intersectionality with sectarianism [Read More...]

Transpecos

Greg Kwedar

Maysa Monção - 26-02-2017

Seeing it from the other side: Transpecos by Greg Kwedar explores the subject of immigration in the US-Mexican border, except that this time from a very unusual perspective: the agents [Read More...]

Mimosas

Oliver Laxe

Gustavo Jahn/ Melissa Dullius

Maysa Monção - 25-02-2017

Take a spiritual journey into the heart of the Arab world and challenge your very own religious convictions - in cinemas [Read More...]

This is how I made it to Netflix

Maysa Monção - 24-02-2017

The winner of this year's Sundance Macon Blair answers our dirty questions, and reveals how his unclassifiable and unpronounceable dirty movie ended on your TV set in less than a month! [Read More...]

Muito Romântico

Victor Fraga - 23-02-2017

Brazilian couple draws inspiration from German literature, Brazilian music and their very own experience as immigrants in order to create their first feature film, a very personal and multilayered concoction [Read More...]

Patriot’s Day

Peter Berg

Jeremy Clarke - 23-02-2017

A docudrama covering the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the citywide manhunt that ensued and the lives of professional and ordinary citizens caught up in that day and its aftermath - now on iTunes [Read More...]

We are X

Stephen Kijak

Linda Marric - 20-02-2017

Meet the exotic Japanese who've rocked the world for 35 years with their exhilarating performances, outlandish costumes and... the hysterical fall-outs! In cinemas on February 28th [Read More...]

Elle

Paul Verhoeven

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2017

Verhoeven's latest movie is a sensual ballad of visceral sex and dysfunctional relationships, elegant in its eccentricity and deliciously repulsive in its pathology, starring Isabelle Huppert - now on BFI Player [Read More...]

Bones of Contention

Andrea Weiss

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2017

Is it about time Spain unearths the bones of Federico García Lorca and uncover its dirty history? Or should the past be left undisturbed? Doc searches for the answer, at Berlinale [Read More...]

Vazante

Daniela Thomas

Victor Fraga - 18-02-2017

Profoundly lyrical and feminine anthropological drama set in colonial Brazil opens the wounds of a country still grappling with its race and gender identity - from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Ana, mon Amour

Călin Peter Netzer

Victor Fraga - 18-02-2017

Romanian drama with about turbulent relationship has great emotional depth and unusual chronology - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Have a Nice Day (Hao Ji Le)

Liu Jian

Victor Fraga - 17-02-2017

When the capitalistic dreams of the Chinese turn into a bloody nightmare - this filthy animation is a delightful surprise now in UK cinemas [Read More...]

Without Name

Lorcan Finnegan

Maysa Monção - 17-02-2017

A hypnotic experience that suddenly descends into eco-horror, Lorcan Finnegan's new film will grip you from the very first minute - out in cinemas this weekend [Read More...]

On the Beach at Night Alone (Bamui Haebyun-Eoseo Honja)

Hong Sang-soo

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2017

Korean indie director examines the love life of a famous actress taking some time out, and achieves something previously deemed impossible - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Joaquim

Marcelo Gomes

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2017

Brazilian filmmaker hits Portuguese colonisers and modern imperialists where it hurts, exposing a continent deeply entrenched in racism, classism and hypocrisy - live from the Berlin Film Festival [Read More...]

The Bar (El Bar)

Álex de la Iglesia

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2017

Spanish cult director Álex de la Iglesia creates a convincing mock-horror/thriller, guaranteed to keep you cringing and laughing for nearly two hours - from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Colo

Teresa Villaverde

Victor Fraga - 15-02-2017

The silent collapse of a Portuguese family due to the effects of the economic crisis makes for languid and painful watching, a rich feast for lovers of prolonged torment and gloom - watch it now at home on ArteKino [Read More...]

The Misandrists

Bruce LaBruce

Victor Fraga - 14-02-2017

Man-hating female revolutionaries do not want equality, and instead they have established an alternative society of their own - Bruce LaBruce's latest movie is out on DVD April 30th [Read More...]

The Other Side of Hope (Toivon Tuolla Puolen)

Aki Kaurismäki

Victor Fraga - 14-02-2017

Think Scandinavian humour is no laughing matter? Think again. Finnish comedy uses very unusual gags in order to raise questions about the refugee crisis - now available on Mubi [Read More...]

Multiple Maniacs

John Waters

1970

Victor Fraga - 13-02-2017

This hearty feast of murder, blasphemy, cannibalism and sheer bad taste is guaranteed to give you food poisoning - does John's classic Multiple Maniacs remain the dirtiest movie ever made? [Read More...]

The Party

Sally Potter

Victor Fraga - 13-02-2017

British filmmaker Sally Potter fails to throw a big party: despite a top-drawer cast, her latest endeavour is a mediocre comedy eliciting the occasional laughter - now available on VoD [Read More...]

Insyriated

Philippe van Leeuw

Victor Fraga - 13-02-2017

Put on the shoes of a mother protecting the young and the elderly in the Syrian War - this a film that Theresa May, Donald Trump or anyone unsympathetic of the refugee cause should see - in cinemas now [Read More...]

Viceroy’s House

Gurinder Chadha

Victor Fraga - 12-02-2017

Remember the partition of India: Urgent lesson of British history, accountability and vested interests is on Netflix on Wednesday, July 6th [Read More...]

Discreet

Mathews Travis

Victor Fraga - 11-02-2017

Meditative and sensorial movie about anonymous sex and dysfunctional family relations is now available for digital streaming [Read More...]

Vaya

Akin Omotoso

Victor Fraga - 11-02-2017

Johannesburg is a city of violence and shattered dreams where three very different migrant stories interlock - from the Cambridge Film Festival [Read More...]

Wild Mouse (Wilde Maus)

Josef Hader

Victor Fraga - 11-02-2017

How does a middle-aged and intellectual Austrian rodent gnaw his way through unemployment? With rage and an unwavering lust for revenge - live at Berlinale [Read More...]

In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora)

João Moreira Salles

Victor Fraga - 11-02-2017

From Brazil to Europe, this profoundly personal documentary is a nostalgic eulogy to the revolutionary vigour of the 1960s - live from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Final Portrait

Stanley Tucci

Catherine Gund/ Daresha Kyi

Victor Fraga - 11-02-2017

How do you paint the portrait of an American brute and degenerate? Alberto Giacometti has the answer ... or maybe not - in cinemas this week [Read More...]

Chavela

Victor Fraga - 10-02-2017

Cry with the llorona: doc follows the life of the extraordinary Chavela Vargas from cradle to grave, in an emotional journey that's sure to grip you - from the Fringe! Queer Film Fest [Read More...]

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

1976

Maysa Monção - 10-02-2017

If Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver was made today, Travis Bickle would murder burka-clad and Muslim women in general, claims Maysa Monção - the 1976 classic is out in cinemas now [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to John Waters

Victor Fraga - 10-02-2017

As we celebrate our one-year anniversary, we talked to the filthy American filmmaker across the pond about American obsessions, British choppers, the impending rerelease of the classic Multiple Maniacs, and... Donald Trump's taste in porn! [Read More...]

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Macon Blair

Maysa Monção - 09-02-2017

This unclassifiable dirty movie won the hearts of audiences at Sundance, and it's shortly coming to Netflix - now it's your turn to see it and decide what you think! [Read More...]

Martírio

Vincent Carelli

Lobo Pasolini - 07-02-2017

Look at the guarani-kaiowá indigenous people of Brazil in the eye, plus experience their culture, spirituality, strength and revolt firsthand, as they engage in a battle against eviction and genocide - screening on April 19th [Read More...]

Avanti Popolo

Rafi Bukai

1986

Art Haxhijakupi - 06-02-2017

Drink, laugh, struggle and cry as Israeli and Arab soldiers strike an impossible friendship - the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival rescues one of the most important Israeli anti-war classics of all times [Read More...]

The Wailing

Na Hong-jin

Victor Fraga - 06-02-2017

This loud and boisterous k-horror is certain to damage your hearing and blur your vision with its unrelenting and multimyriad gimmicks, if you can spare 150 scary minutes of your life - now also available on Netflix [Read More...]

LoveTrue

Alma Har'el

Victor Fraga - 05-02-2017

No family format is too unorthodox. No relationship is too unusual. Love is always the answer to a broken heart or a broken home. Astounding blend of documentary and fiction sheds the light of optimism on the most unlikely and dark places [Read More...]

Less salted caramel movies, please!!!

Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas - 03-02-2017

Moviegoer Julia Spatuzzi shares her frustration about the independent and art cinema circuit in London, where frills and treats seem to prevail over film choice, and foreign language movies are still the exception [Read More...]

UK18

Andrew Tiernan

Victor Fraga - 31-01-2017

Do you think that the UK is far from becoming a totalitarian regime? Think again. RFID chips are to be implemented inside each one of us from January 2018 - intrepid British sci-fi raises urgent questions about surveillance [Read More...]

Ken Loach, Cathy, Crisis and I

Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas - 30-01-2017

Did you know that Ken Loach's 1966 classic Cathy Come Home led to the creation of the national homelessness charity Crisis? Julia Spatuzzi shares her experience volunteering at the organisation and ponders the connection between cinema and reality [Read More...]

Loving

Jeff Nichols

Victor Fraga - 29-01-2017

Jeff Nichol's drama about the interracial marriage that triggered the invalidation of anti-miscegenation laws in the US acquires extra relevance in Trumpian era of fascism - out in cinemas Friday [Read More...]

Beatriz at Dinner

Miguel Arteta

Maysa Monção - 25-01-2017

Salma Hayek is a Mexican immigrant who exposes the ugly face of the Los Angeles aristocracy, revealing that Trump's wall is already firmly in place - live from Sundance [Read More...]

Call me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino

Maysa Monção - 24-01-2017

This modern take on Death in Venice is an emotional, rapturous and sensual queer love story taking place in northern Italy, and it immediately stole the heart of the audience at Sundance - in cinemas [Read More...]

Manifesto

Julian Rosefeldt

Maysa Monção - 24-01-2017

A chameleonic Cate Blanchett delivers a highly unorthodox and inventive history masterclass to cinema-lovers - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Testing Bechdel

Lina Samoili - 23-01-2017

Our writer Lina Samoili looks at the modern relevance and the shortcomings of the Bechdel test, and asks whether still it's an accurate gauge of female representation in cinema three decades after its creation [Read More...]

T2 Trainspotting

Danny Boyle

Jeremy Clarke - 23-01-2017

Trainspotting’s four male protagonists run into each other two decades later; the outcome is a nostalgia fest over-reliant on the convoluted plot and gimmicks of the original film [Read More...]

Winnie

Pascale Lamche

Maysa Monção - 23-01-2017

Repeatedly arrested, constantly monitored and unjustly vilified, the living legend Winnie Mandela remains a role model for Black women and human rights campaigners all over the world - at Hot Docs London [Read More...]

Whose Streets?

Sabaah Folayan

Maysa Monção - 22-01-2017

The angry cry of the unheard: doc gives a voice to the Ferguson rioters, revealing the inconvenient truths omitted by television - right now from the Sundance Film Festival [Read More...]

Bitch

Marianna Palka

Maysa Monção - 22-01-2017

What would you do if your spouse went, quite literally, barking mad? Deeply provocative film by Scottish filmmaker is out in cinemas [Read More...]

Jackie

Pablo Larraín

Victor Fraga - 19-01-2017

Biopic of the most remembered and revered first lady of the US is touching and effective, with Natalie Portman delivering a very convincing and rivetting performance - yet the grandiose tone of the film dissonates from the Chilean directors's more uncurby works - in cinemas Friday [Read More...]

The scariest Friday the 13th EVER

DMovies team - 18-01-2017

This Friday just sit back but DON'T turn your television on: what you will see is far more unsettling than any horror film you've seen in your life, and it could haunt you forever! [Read More...]

David Lynch’s dirty secret

Petra von Kant - 17-01-2017

In order to celebrate his 71st birthday, we have picked seven extremely unusual and uncredited works by the enygmatic American filmmaker: television commercials! [Read More...]

Road to the Well

Jon Cvack

Victor Fraga - 16-01-2017

This exquisite and delectable blend of Lynchian suspense and neo-noir murder is guaranteed to keep you hooked for nearly two hours and brooding over it for hours to come - watch this hidden gem now online [Read More...]

Irreplaceable (Médicin de Campagne)

Thomas Lilti

Victor Fraga - 12-01-2017

What happens when a headstrong and tenacious doctor constantly dealing with dying patients becomes ill with an incurable disease? Can he step out of the caretaker's shoes into the receiving end? [Read More...]

Neither nun nor hoe

Maysa Monção - 10-01-2017

Maysa Monção chooses her 10 favourite dirty women in the history of cinema, in an eclectic list full of delicious surprises - she transcends the dichotomy between the passive female and feminism [Read More...]

Blaxploitalian – 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema

Fred Kuwornu

Victor Fraga - 08-01-2017

Italy is still at odds with Black representation in cinema and media; doc exposes a country that has done remarkably little in order to fight discrimination [Read More...]

If Only I Were that Warrior

Valerio Ciriaci

Angelo Boccato - 05-01-2017

Lest we forget Italy's brutal colonial past - new doc available now on VoD exposes the wounds of Italian fascism in Africa, and how war criminals were never brought to justice - thanks to Britain! [Read More...]

Endless Poetry (Poesía sin Fin)

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Jeremy Clarke - 04-01-2017

Jodorowsky’s second film in his autobiographical cycle takes up where 'The Dance Of Reality' left off, following his life in Chile as a young man as he defies his family to live as a poet - available now on Mubi! [Read More...]

A Monster Calls

J. A. Bayona

Maysa Monção - 03-01-2017

The never-ending sad story: a child find his comfort zone in a fantasy world populated by a very unusual monster - now on Amazon Prime [Read More...]

Another year, another coup d’état, another film

Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas - 02-01-2017

DMovies remembers the 1993 doc Beyond Citizen Kane and the 2016 Brazilian coup d'état in an interview with the film producer John Ellis, as we make a very exciting announcement [Read More...]

2016 was just a freaky horror movie!!!

Victor Fraga - 28-12-2016

This year wasn't real! It just a like a very scary horror flick that you couldn't wait for it to finish. The difference is that you couldn't walk out of the cinema. Now it's finally over... OR NOT!!! [Read More...]

The Darkest Dawn

Drew Casson

Linda Marric - 28-12-2016

Is it possible to bring a fresh twist on the well-worn found footage genre? 'The Darkest Dawn' is both entertainment and technically accomplished, but the script has too many loose ends - out in cinemas in January [Read More...]

Are you ready for change?

Maysa Monção - 28-12-2016

Are you prepared for 2017? We say that we want change, but we stick to familiar elements, scared of having to adapt. Now it's the time to spill the paint and do something genuinely novel, like Jackson Pollock and Ed Harris! [Read More...]

Silence

Martin Scorsese

Jeremy Clarke - 28-12-2016

Scorsese questions and tests the unwavering faith of the hidden Christians of Japan, and our allegience to the director remains just as steadfast - read our verdict on the director's latest movie, out on New Year's Day [Read More...]

Petting Zoo

Micah Magee

Victor Fraga - 27-12-2016

A dark tale of a harsh and callous red state that forces a teenage girl to gatecrash into adulthood, yet unable to make the most important decision of her life - digitally available for the first time now [Read More...]

Tangerine

Sean Barker

Victor Fraga - 21-12-2016

The loudest, filthiest and yet most touching and impressive Christmas present you could ever give to anyone - Tangerine remains the dirtiest Xmas movie ever! [Read More...]

The top 10 dirtiest films of 2016

DMovies team - 20-12-2016

British warfare, Chinese nostalgia, Kosovo transexuals, Iggy Pop, Brazilian resistence and much more - we have selected the filthiest films of the year so you can sit back and enjoy them! [Read More...]

The Coming War on China

John Pilger

Angelo Boccato - 20-12-2016

Think 2016 was a bad year? Think again! New doc by John Pilger exposes the dangers of an impending nuclear war between the US and China, and paints a pessimistic picture of our future [Read More...]

Ouch, that REALLY hurt!

Maysa Monção - 19-12-2016

These 10 directors abused their actors for real - from hair plucking to caning and psychological warfare - in order to elicit more realistic emotions in their film, leaving some of them permanently scarred [Read More...]

Rats

Morgan Spurlock

Victor Fraga - 17-12-2016

Watch this on an empty stomach! Take a very close and intimate look at our disgusting furry friends; their world might be filthy, but they more in common with us than you'd expect [Read More...]

The Eagle Huntress

Otto Bell

Maysa Monção - 15-12-2016

Breaking ranks on the wings of an eagle: the tribal girl who challenged social conventions through one of the most unlikely crafts - out in cinemas now [Read More...]

This is NOT just a film!!!

Victor Fraga - 12-12-2016

Real life imitates fiction! Some films are just so powerful that they just never come to a closure; we selected seven films where the character eventually found their way into the real world, often to tragic and catastrophic results [Read More...]

I Am Not a Serial Killer

Billy O'Brien

Gabe Turner/ Benjamin Turner

Maysa Monção - 09-12-2016

Is there a latent murderer inside each one of us? Chilling psychological thriller investigates the profoundly twisted mind of a sociopath, and raises questions about our very own sanity - out in cinemas now! [Read More...]

I Am Bolt

Angelo Boccato - 08-12-2016

Is there a man inside the machine? Doc about the fastest man on earth reveals the human side of an individual achiever best known for his superhuman performances - now available on Netflix [Read More...]

Who needs a lesbian princess?

Victor Fraga - 07-12-2016

As the world speculates whether the magic cinema of Disney is ready to crown a lesbian princess, we raise a different question: do LGBT people need to embrace an institution as archaic as princesshood? [Read More...]

The neverending rape

Victor Fraga - 06-12-2016

Did Maria Schneider feel violated every time a viewer was aroused by the butter scene in 'The Last Tango in Paris'? And were we all silent accomplices of rape for four decades? [Read More...]

Magnus

Benjamin Ree

Victor Fraga - 05-12-2016

The winner takes it all: Magnus Carlsen became the youngest and highest-ranking chess player of all times three years ago, inspiring young people from all corners of the planet - but just how did we do it? [Read More...]

Psychotic film censors that kill!!!

Maysa Monção - 04-12-2016

Mad freedom- and joykillers are on the loose! Bizarre new laws banning "unconventional sex" online are about to be implemented in the UK, a very dangerous weapon in the hands of prudish censors; we look at likely implications for filmmakers, using Cronenberg's Crash as a case study [Read More...]

The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev

Tal Barda/ Noam Pinchas

Victor Fraga - 29-11-2016

Does music liberate or confine this family? Papa Alaev has the majestic voice of thunder and the overbearing hand of a despot, which he uses to chastise and control his family of musicians - Israeli doc looks at folk music and orthodox social norms [Read More...]

The Dreamed Ones (Die Geträumten)

Ruth Beckermann

Victor Fraga - 28-11-2016

A fugue into a tragic existence: the impossible love between Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann is the centrepiece of this very unusual Austrian film, where the poetic licence freely permeates the movie structure - in cinemas on Friday [Read More...]

Lust is a neon sign at the bottom of my heart

Maysa Monção - 27-11-2016

The day Francis Ford Coppola made me a woman; it all happened very quickly and in one of the shabbiest and seediest and places imaginable [Read More...]

The Truth Beneath

Lee Kyoung-mi

Victor Fraga - 24-11-2016

Elections to kill for! K-thriller combines the colourful and the morbid in a twisted tale of teenage angst, political campaigning and murder - from the London Korean Film Festival taking place right now [Read More...]

Urmila: My Memory is My Power

Susan Gluth

Victor Fraga - 23-11-2016

12 years a child slave: Nepalese women's rights activist Urmila Chaudary fights to save young girls in her country from the tragic fate that befell her at the age of just six, when she became a kamalari [Read More...]

The top 10 dirtiest film quotes of all times!

DMovies team - 22-11-2016

From Almodóvar to Billy Wilder, these dirty film lines will hit you like a ton of bricks, change your life and the way you see cinema! [Read More...]

Indignation

James Schamus

Maysa Monção - 21-11-2016

The land of the free? Here freedom comes at a price! US drama based on novel by Philip Roth juggles religion, sexuality, diversity and coming-of-age in the austere 1950s and questions core American values - out in cinemas now [Read More...]

Panic

Sean Spencer

Andreas Møl Dalsgaard/ Obaidah Zytoon

Petra von Kant - 17-11-2016

A dirty immigrant at your rear window! Indie thriller recycles classic Hitchcockian device, blending it with very modern problems endemic to London - now available on most VoD platforms [Read More...]

The War Show

Victor Fraga - 16-11-2016

The camera is my weapon: a circle of young and liberal friends register the Syrian conflict, from the colourful beginnings in 2011, when they were filled with hope for democracy, to the widespread chaos and hopelessness that prevail now [Read More...]

Gimme Danger

Jim Jarmusch

Maysa Monção - 15-11-2016

Deliciously dangerous pop: Jim Jarmusch's film about Iggy Pop and the Stooges is far more than your average rockumentary; it's an ingenious, dirty and loud tribute to the artists who sum up the very essence of rock'n roll - out in cinemas on Friday [Read More...]

The Great Trumptator

Victor Fraga - 14-11-2016

CHARLES CHAPLIN WAS RIGHT: DONALD TRUMP IS A LIAR. FROM OUR ARCHIVES - "by the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie!" - why Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator is still urgent [Read More...]

A United Kingdom

Amma Asante

Maysa Monção - 12-11-2016

Fake nostalgia or diversity statement? DMovies' writer Maysa Monção thinks that the widely-publicised British period drama about an interracial couple is a thinly-veiled celebration of British Imperialism, and that the social message is secondary [Read More...]

Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy

Danny Garcia

Maysa Monção - - 10-11-2016

A one-way journey to hell - biopic of the first couple of punk blends real footage with reenactment, revealing a tragic and bleak symbiotic love story with a deadly sting - film is part of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival [Read More...]

Bruce LaBruce answers our dirty questions

Victor Fraga - 09-11-2016

"In Britain, they hacked my films to pieces" - DMovies met in Berlin with the queer progressive Canadian filmmaker in order to talk about censorship, radical feminists, bourgeois gays, deceptive politics, the perfect film role for the "hunky" Canadian head of government Justin Trudeau, and what he would do if he became Prime Minister [Read More...]

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve

Maysa Monção - 07-11-2016

Hello, is it peace you're looking for? Aliens have landed on Earth, and Amy has to decipher their parlance and figure out their intentions, before it's too late - finally available on Netflix [Read More...]

Alt.Russia

Charlie Targett-Adams

Victor Fraga - 07-11-2016

The longest tour of all times: rock-indie Placebo tour the vastness of the largest country on earth, and they uncover a lesser-known colourful, trendy and even subversive side of Russians - rockumentary is part of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival [Read More...]

Cool Cats

Janus Køster-Rasmussen

Maysa Monção - 06-11-2016

Still just a cat in a cage: despite all their talent, saxophonists Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon faced a tormented life of addiction, even as they went into self-exile in Denmark - film is part of the Doc'n'Roll Festival taking place right now [Read More...]

One Kiss (Un Bacio)

Ivan Cotroneo

Petra von Kant - 05-11-2016

I kissed a boy and he didn't like it: sweet-quickly-turned-sour teenage romance from Italy is a stark reminder that the mediterranean country has to face up issues of consent and homophobia - movie is out in the cinema and soon on DVD [Read More...]

The Last Family (Ostatnia Rodzina)

Jan P. Matuszyński

Pedro Miguel - 04-11-2016

The artist before the apocalypse: Surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński's dysfunctional family life prior to the rise to fame provides some fascinating clues into the mysteries of a very creative mind - view it online for free as part of the ArteKino Festival [Read More...]

Silence speaks up!!!

DMovies team - 03-11-2016

As we launch our platform for experimental cinema, the Birmingham based filmmaker Philip Brocklehurst talks about cinema as a tool for individual liberation, and shares with us some of his most personal and cherished pieces [Read More...]

Ken Loach answers our dirty questions

Victor Fraga - 01-11-2016

The veteran and legendary British filmmaker talks exclusively to DMovies about 2,300 Daniel Blakes, a government that deliberately murders people, nostalgic period dramas, Britishness, Brexit, immigration and whether Cathy would be homeless 50 years later! [Read More...]

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

Louis Black

Maysa Monção - 01-11-2016

The most beautiful incoherence: biopic of the very unusual helmer who forges authentic relations at the expense of the integrity of his movie narratives could change the way you understand cinema - movie is out in cinemas this Friday [Read More...]

The Madness among Us (A Loucura entre Nós)

Fernanda Fontes Vareille

Victor Fraga - 31-10-2016

Beyond Jekyll and Hyde: highly feminine and tender Brazilian doc busts the myths of insanity, helping to shed the stigma of people living with mental health issues [Read More...]

The top 10 rock’n roll docs of all times

DMovies team - 30-10-2016

As he prepares for the latest edition of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival - possibly the UK's largest hybrid feast of cinema and music -, the event's founder and director Colm Forde shares with us his list of the 10 most impressive rock'n roll documentaries ever! [Read More...]

Cursed Be Your Name, Liberty (Maldito Sea tu Nombre, Libertad)

Vladimir Ceballos

1994

Victor Fraga - 29-10-2016

Finding freedom through Aids: extremely rare to be seen Cuban documentary reveals rockers that find liberty by injecting themselves with the HIV virus, at a time when this was almost synonymous with a death sentence - here they explain their twisted and frantic reasoning [Read More...]

Is this the most outrageous film festival ever?

Victor Fraga - 28-10-2016

A small, very unusual and vibrant film festival takes place every year in Berlin attracting a very enthusiastic following, but a four-letter word in the name of the event can be very misleading - are you able to guess what that is? DMovies is live right now unveiling the Festival's je ne sais quois [Read More...]

El Destierro

Arturo Ruiz Serrano

Victor Fraga - 26-10-2016

Who is your real enemy? The Spanish Civil War left the country with split allegiances and profound wounds; now a Polish woman could help two soldiers to overcome the rift - Spanish drama will open the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival on November 3rd [Read More...]

Gregory Porter: Don’t Forget Your Music

Alfred George Bailey

Maysa Monção - 25-10-2016

The everlasting note of jazz: the timeless and often overlooked Gregory Porter just wants to play music forever, whether it's in a toilet or the Royal Albert Hall - in intimate biopic at the Doc'N'Roll Festival next week [Read More...]

The top 10 dirtiest horror films of all times

DMovies team - 24-10-2016

This Halloween indulge in sex with aliens, watch Islamic spirits travel inside missiles, witness a child eat her parents, or perhaps have a forced sex reassignment surgery! Deep dive into the darkest, most twisted and thought-provoking horror films ever made [Read More...]

Paterson

Jim Jarmusch

Maysa Monção - 21-10-2016

Time to wake up! Jim Jarmusch's latest flick is a repetitive and sleepy poem about a bus driver, but sadly the director's distinctive wit and genius are mostly missing. And you may fall asleep during the movie, too. [Read More...]

It’s Only The End of The World (Juste la Fin du Monde)

Xavier Dolan

Maysa Monção - 19-10-2016

Who the hell stole my play? Maysa Monção writes a letter to the late French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce letting him know that Xavier Dolan did a great job adapting his masterpiece to the silver screen; you wouldn't want the poor man rolling in his coffin! Available now on Mubi [Read More...]

Under the Shadow

Babak Anvari

Victor Fraga - 19-10-2016

The demon is in the missile: terrificaly scary horror from Iran blends the terrors of Iran-Iraq War with evil spirits from Islamic mythology known as Djinn, enveloped by thorny political and social issues - this is our first dirty Halloween treat this year for our readers [Read More...]

I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach

Victor Fraga - 18-10-2016

Britain without dignity and self-respect: Ken Loach's dirty classic is a sharp and unforgiving denunciation of the socio-economic failures of our nation - back on BFI Player on Thursday, April 3rd [Read More...]

In Pursuit of Silence

Patrick Shen

Pedro Miguel - 17-10-2016

Prick up your ears: the noises of modern life are killing your body and your soul, so instead deep dive into the healing powers of silence - meditative documentary by Patrick Shen is out on Friday [Read More...]

Neruda

Pablo Larraín

Victor Fraga - 16-10-2016

Redreaming the dreamer: biopic of the Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda is as imaginative and colourful as the man it portrays, and a fitting tribute to one of the most important voices of literature and communism in the 20th century - now on Blu-ray, DVD, and iTunes [Read More...]

Snowden

Oliver Stone

Maysa Monção - 14-10-2016

The wizard with a sickly body: Oliver Stone's biopic of one of the most subversive minds on earth does not address the political conjecture and notions of patriotism, instead painting a highly romanticised picture of a splendid man with a frail health [Read More...]

Aquarius

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Victor Fraga - 13-10-2016

The Brazilian weapon of resistance: played by the legendary Sônia Braga, Clara is a woman who uses nostalgia as a shield against her fast-changing and deeply corrupt society, as well as an instrument for both physical and emotional survival - now on Netflix! [Read More...]

What’s in the Darkness

Yichun Wang