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Louder Than Bombs

Joachim Trier
2016

Maysa Monção - 22-04-2016

Motherhood is far more dangerous than being a photographer in a warzone, Isabelle Huppert reveals in new star-studded drama by Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier [Read More...]

Golden Years

John Miller
2016

Victor Fraga - 20-04-2016

'The Full Monty' of the elderly: instead of flashing their modesty for cash, this new British comedy has old-age pensioners brandishing bananas posing as weapons [Read More...]

Ruffling feathers: enter the horrific world of animal suffering

 

Lobo Pasolini - 20-04-2016

Animal rights activist Antônio Pasolini describes how cinema turned him vegan, and takes you on a wild tour of the dirtiest animal movies. [Read More...]

Set The Thames on Fire

Ben Charles Edwards
2016

Maysa Monção - 19-04-2016

Would you laugh if London was flooded and your primal instincts became your drive? Set the Thames on Fire is part of LOCO the London Comedy Film Festival [Read More...]

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Peter Greenaway
2015

Victor Fraga - 18-04-2016

As Peter Greenaway's latest flick finally hits the UK, Dirty Movies celebrates the film's flare and imaginativeness, but also ponders on its historicity and authenticity [Read More...]

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Fenton Bailey/ Randy Barbato
2016

Victor Fraga - 17-04-2016

The penetrating eye and the trenchant gaze of the photographer: new HBO documentary examines the life and the legacy of an artist who laid his subjects bare and shocked the world [Read More...]

Hot Property

Max McGill
2016

Maysa Monção - 14-04-2016

A house to kill for? Hot Property reveals some very unorthodox measures for avoiding eviction - from the London Comedy Film Festival [Read More...]

The Pearl of Africa

Jonny Von Wallström
2016

Petra von Kant - 14-04-2016

Fighting prejudice in Uganda: the transgender woman who defied `the world's worst place to be gay` [Read More...]

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Ada Ushpitz
2016

Victor Fraga - 13-04-2016

The Jew who humanised the Nazis: compelling documentary rescues the legacy of Jewish-German philosopher Hannah Arendt while shedding a new light on ever-so-urgent problems such as Palestine and the refugee crisis - now available on VoD [Read More...]

The Divide

Katherine Round
2016

Maysa Monção - 13-04-2016

"Wealth is not a dirty word", said Cameron earlier this week in reference to revelations of the Panama Papers; new British documentary reveals that, in reality, It is also gross and stinks [Read More...]

Midnight Special

Jeff Nichols
2016

Maysa Monção - 12-04-2016

Not your average sci-fi movie: Jeff Nichols' 'Midnight Special' sheds new light - quite literally - in a very conventional cinema genre, as luminosity drives the movie narrative [Read More...]

Victoria

Sebastian Schipper
2016

Maysa Monção - 07-04-2016

The speed and the recklessness of youth captured in just one camera shot of 138 minutes, in impressive new German action flick [Read More...]

Femme Brutal

Liesa Kovacs/ Nick Prokesch
2016

Maysa Monção - 06-04-2016

Lesbian burlesque dancers expose the female body in novel ways, but that’s not for everyone to see - in new Austrian documentary. [Read More...]

The Last Man on The Moon

Mark Craig
2016

Maysa Monção - 06-04-2016

Are the US the land of the invincible? New documentary about last American astronaut on the Moon does little more than to celebrate the country’s self-conceitedness [Read More...]

When We Are Together We Can Be Everywhere

Marit Ostberg
2016

Petra von Kant - 05-04-2016

As this LGBT erotica documentary hits Brighton on Thursday, Dirty Movies opens up the discussion about the fine line between art and smut [Read More...]

Couple in a Hole

Tom Geens
2016

Maysa Monção - 04-04-2016

Entrancing performances plus a harrowing soundtrack by Portishead's Geoff Barrow make this British film about a couple living in isolation in the Pyrenees a hypnotic experience [Read More...]

Scum

Alan Clarke
1983

Victor Fraga - 03-04-2016

Lest we forget British borstals: in a brutal and oppressive environment where violence is the only currency, happiness and knowledge are a very subversive weapon - on BFI Player on Monday, April 1st [Read More...]

Jason and Shirley

Stephen Winter
2016

Victor Fraga - 01-04-2016

The filmmaker is the organ grinder, as Americans merrily laugh and applaud the grotesque circus of racism and homophobia - in Stephen Winter's new docudrama [Read More...]

No

Pablo Larraín
2012

Victor Fraga - 31-03-2016

As Brazil mobilises against a coup d'état, Dirty Movies shows its solidarity by remembering the Chilean film 'No', the importance of the popular vote and the horrors of life without democracy [Read More...]

In Jackson Heights

Frederick Wiseman
2016

Maysa Monção - 29-03-2016

The dizzying heights of cultural diversity and a harmoniously disintegrated community of Queens, in New York, are the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s latest movie. [Read More...]

Is this the enfant terrible of Latin American cinema?

 

Paul Risker - 25-03-2016

In an exclusive interview with Dirty Movies, Chilean director Pablo Larraín discusses the use of silence, humour and other feats of The Club - a controversial movie about child abuse and the Catholic Church in his country [Read More...]

Carmin Tropical

Rigoberto Perezcano
2016

Petra von Kant - 25-03-2016

This Mexican tale of transvestism, singing and murder has an interesting topic, beautiful actors and a fascinating backdrop, but it lacks intensity [Read More...]

The Chambermaid Lynn (Das Zimmermädchen Lynn)

Ingo Haeb
2016

Victor Fraga - 24-03-2016

Lesson of the day from Germany: everyone is a little OCD, S&M, homosexual and insane - and that's OK! [Read More...]

The Club (El Club)

Pablo Larraín
2016

Victor Fraga - 23-03-2016

The face, the sounds, the smells and even the taste of child abuse come back to haunt the Catholic Church in Chile, in astounding new movie [Read More...]

Ka Bodyscapes

Jayan Cherian
2016

Maysa Monção - 22-03-2016

How dirty and impure is the human body? Gay men and menstruating women have the answer, in this compelling new drama from India [Read More...]

Sworn Virgin (Virgine Giurata)

Laura Bispuri
2015

Victor Fraga - 22-03-2016

Is transgenderism a sexual choice? Old-fashioned Albanian tradition raises complex questions about gender tolerance in both conservative and liberal Europe [Read More...]

Inside the Chinese Closet

Sophia Luvarà
2016

Victor Fraga - 21-03-2016

How many gays and lesbians can you fit in the Chinese closet? New documentary examines the alternatives to coming out in the largest country in the world [Read More...]

I Promise You Anarchy (Te Prometo Anarquía)

Julio Hernández Cordón
2016

Petra von Kant - 21-03-2016

A fiery mixture of skateboarders, homosexuality and illegal blood trade is the promising feat of this Mexican film; sadly it fails to gel together [Read More...]

Beautiful Something

Joseph Graham
2016

Victor Fraga - 20-03-2016

Four gay men in Philadelphia seek something profound and meaningful in their lives, but instead they are trapped in their empty existence without love and affection [Read More...]

Summertime (La Belle Saison)

Catherine Corsini
2016

Victor Fraga - 19-03-2016

An effective yet very conventional French Lesbian drama that wrapped up the BFI Flare LGBT Film Festival a few years ago is now on Mubi [Read More...]

Welcome to This House

Barbara Hammer
2015

Maysa Monção - 18-03-2016

Entering the world of Canadian poet Elizabeth Bishop is as difficult as entering a woman dry, new documentary shows [Read More...]

Akron

Brian O'Donnell/ Sasha King
2016

Victor Fraga - 17-03-2016

An American story of bereavement and forgiveness, where homosexuality is the background but never the leitmotif - now available on BFI player [Read More...]

The Pass

Ben A. Williams
2016

Victor Fraga - 17-03-2016

A super-energetic Russell Tovey will both enrapture and repel you, in a very convincing movie about football, homosexuality and feigned masculinity [Read More...]

Little Pieces

Adam Nelson
2016

Maysa Monção - 16-03-2016

Little fragments of happiness do not always add up to a jolly picture [Read More...]

To my Beloved (Para minha Amada Morta)

Aly Muritiba
2016

Maysa Monção - 14-03-2016

A Hitchcockesque celebration of death, mourning, betrayal and revenge, in an impressive film by young Brazilian filmmaker [Read More...]

Benny Loves Killing

Ben Woodiwiss
2012

Victor Fraga - 13-03-2016

This very intense British drama-horror flick proves that budget restrictions can be a catalyst for creativity, and not a handicap - now on Amazon [Read More...]

The Ones Below

David Farr
2016

Victor Fraga - 09-03-2016

The convivial fears of the English are scary as the devil - find out why in this modern-day version of Rosemary's Baby [Read More...]

Looking good at 30!

 

Dirty Movies team - 09-03-2016

The BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival turns 30 this year, and it is ageing gracefully. It starts on Wednesday March 16th [Read More...]

The Here After (Efterskalv)

Magnus von Horn
2016

Maysa Monção - 09-03-2016

For how long does a teenage criminal have to suffer and pay for making just one single mistake? [Read More...]

The Corpse of Anna Fritz (El Cadáver de Anna Fritz)

Hèctor Hernández Vicens
2016

Victor Fraga - 08-03-2016

The politics of death and violation: how the Spanish recycled horror clichés and the role of the vulnerable female to hair-raising results [Read More...]

Room

Lenny Abrahamson
2015

Maysa Monção - 07-03-2016

The prison that liberates: Oscar-winning Brie Larson shows that a life in confinement can be freer than a life in liberty [Read More...]

My mother on Tarkovsky’s dirty mirror

 

Victor Fraga - 04-03-2016

Tarkovsky reflected the image of his mother on the cinema mirror; can I do the same on this dirty website? [Read More...]

White Out, Black In (Branco Sai, Preto Fica)

Adirley Queirós
2015

Petra von Kant - 04-03-2016

In the deeply racist and socially segregated Brazilian capital, black dwellers bear the violent brunt of institutionalised oppression [Read More...]

You’ll Never Be Alone (Nunca Vas a Estar Solo)

Álex Anwandter
2016

Victor Fraga - 03-03-2016

Chile is a country slowly healing the deep wounds of homophobia, and Álex Anwandter's cinema debut is picking the scabs [Read More...]

Film as a transformational weapon against war

 

Maysa Monção - 03-03-2016

Filmmakers equip children and adolescents in Iraq with cameras instead of guns, enabling them to shoot from a very different perspective, in a likely unprecedented initiative. Now it’s your turn to do your part [Read More...]

Drained (O Cheiro do Ralo)

Heitor Dhalia
2006

Maysa Monção - 02-03-2016

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - the politics of sex and of pawning are not always this straight-forward [Read More...]

Anomalisa

Charlie Kaufman/ Duke Johnson
2016

Maysa Moncao - 01-03-2016

Can the voice of a woman inspire a man to improve himself and make profound changes to his life? [Read More...]

Like Cattle towards Glow

Zac Farley
2015

Victor Fraga - 29-02-2016

Achieving gratification through anhedonia and suffering: the strange politics of 'little death' and mortality [Read More...]

We are Never Alone (Nikdy Nejsme Sami)

Petr Vaclav
2016

Victor Fraga - 29-02-2016

In Petr Vaclav's morbid world, no one is ever alone - just not with the ones with whom they wish to be [Read More...]

Alice’s House (A Casa de Alice)

Chico Teixeira
2007

Petra von Kant - 25-02-2016

The mundane lifestyle of the Brazilian lower middle-class can both challenge and enrapture the viewer [Read More...]

Neon Bull (Boi Neon)

Gabriel Mascaro
2015

Maysa Moncao - 24-02-2016

Even cowboys get the blues: the naked and raw life of Brazilian vaqueiros [Read More...]

Moscou

Eduardo Coutinho
2009

Maysa Moncao - 23-02-2016

Blending documentary, theatre and literature into one large and broad tropical melting pot [Read More...]

Neighbouring Sounds (O Som ao Redor)

Kleber Mendonça Filho
2012

Victor Fraga - 22-02-2016

In his first film, Kleber Mendonca Filho explores the dull urban cacophony that ties together middle-class neighbours in the Brazilian city of Recife - on MUBI for 30 days only! [Read More...]

United States of Love (Zjednoczone Stany Miłości)

Tomasz Wasilevski
2016

Maysa Moncao - 19-02-2016

The plain, raw and empty state of women in post-communist Poland unveiled by young Polish director at Berlin Film Festival is out in cinemas on Friday [Read More...]

A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad)

Mani Haghighi
2016

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2016

The raiders of the lost Iranian dragon and a filmmaker's attempt to recreate a beautifully ludicrous legend. [Read More...]

Miles Ahead

2016
Don Cheadle

Maysa Moncao - 19-02-2016

Was he miles ahead of his time? Biopic by Don Cheadle rescues the legacy of late American jazz musician Miles Davis, including little-known aspects of his life as a recluse [Read More...]

Toro

Martin Hawie
2016

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2016

The bull or the chicken? Impressive German gangster-'bromance' movie explores the underground of ethnic diversity and immigration in Germany [Read More...]

Time Was Endless (Antes o Tempo Não Acabava)

Sérgio Andrade/Fábio Baldo
2016

Victor Fraga - 18-02-2016

How much longer can the few surviving indigenous Brazilians cling on to their culture, and how painful are these changes - two Brazilian filmmakers ask urgent questions in new feature introduced in Berlin [Read More...]

Strike a Pose

Reijer Zwaan/ Ester Gould
2016

Maysa Moncao - 18-02-2016

How do you strike a pose once the lights dim out and stardom vanishes? New documentary about Madonna's dancers examines life after fame [Read More...]

Genius

Michael Grandage
2016

Maysa Moncao - 18-02-2016

How do you rewrite the same old story? Michael Grandage delivers star-studded piece about reclaiming forgotten writers and editors [Read More...]

Where to Invade Next

Michael Moore
2016

Victor Fraga - 18-02-2016

A more mature Michael Moore presents his best film to date, revealing that the whole world is living the American dream, while Americans can but dream of it [Read More...]

News from Planet Mars (Des Nouvelles de la Planète Mars)

Dominik Moll
2016

Petra von Kant - 17-02-2016

We all go a little animal crazy sometimes, particularly if you are a vegetarian activist [Read More...]

Chi-Raq

Spike Lee
2016

Maysa Moncao - 17-02-2016

The power of the female pudendum: Spike Lee's new film is an adaptation of a Greek comedy to modern-day Chicago, where the local women use their guile and charms in order to restore peace [Read More...]

The Commune (Kollektivet)

Thomas Vinterberg
2016

Victor Fraga - 17-02-2016

Bored of living with your family in a large empty house? Then invite a bunch of people to move in and turn it into a commune - now available on Mubi [Read More...]

An Outpost of Progress (Posto Avançado do Progresso)

Hugo Vieira da Silva
2016

Maysa Moncao - 16-02-2016

Portuguese Empire returns to life and conquers new territories in the heart of Germany [Read More...]

Death in Sarajevo (Smrt u Sarajevu)

Danis Tanović
2016

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2016

Hero or terrorist? Oscar-winning Bosnian filmmaker Tanović ponders how to describe a controversial murderer, and to reconcile his country's split identity - from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)

Gianfranco Rosi
2016

Maysa Moncao - 16-02-2016

The borders of Italy are open, and so are the wounds of African immigrants - watch it right now on our website [Read More...]

Crosscurrent

2016
Yang Chao

Victor Fraga - 15-02-2016

Chinese masterpiece wows Berlin and reveals: the rushed modernisation of China can be elegantly dirty and oddly fascinating [Read More...]

Alone in Berlin

Vincent Pérez
2016

Victor Fraga - 15-02-2016

The day the Nazis spoke English: highly sanitised and romanticised movie fails to celebrate the real story of a Berlin couple who resisted their oppressive regime - in cinemas now [Read More...]

Being 17 (Quand On A 17 Ans)

André Téchiné
2016

Victor Fraga - 14-02-2016

André Téchiné again touches the wounds of French society in a complex and moving film about sexuality and social integration [Read More...]

24 weeks (24 Wochen)

Anne Zohra Berrached
2016

Victor Fraga - 14-02-2016

German film investigates the difficult decision that a woman has to be between having a dirty abortion and a "disgusting" severely sick and disabled child - available on ArteKino throughout December [Read More...]

Mahana

Lee Tamahori
2016

Victor Fraga - 13-02-2016

Kiwi director of James Bond uses family violence as an allegory of colonial violence, in an epic Maori tale of love and oppression [Read More...]

Things to Come (L’Avenir)

Mia Hansen-Løve
2016

Victor Fraga - 13-02-2016

A downcast and passive Isabelle Huppert is a philosophy teacher unable to act out her teachings, in a beautiful reflection on intellectual futility - now on Mubi [Read More...]

The Survivalist

Stephen Fingleton
2016

Maysa Monção - 10-02-2016

What difference a woman makes - can a modern caveman purge his primal instincts without a female counterpart? [Read More...]

The 16 dirtiest Brazilian films of the past 10 years

 

Dirty Movies team - 01-02-2016

Five Brazilian journalists take a dirty look at 16 of the filthiest creations of Brazilian cinema in the past 10 years, and reclaim their often overlooked value [Read More...]

The Assassin

Hou Hsiao-Hsien
2016

Maysa Moncao - 31-01-2016

Film director and female assassin both take a long and complex journey into maturity in Imperial China [Read More...]

Oscar’s too white, Carnival’s too black – or not?

 

Victor Fraga - 30-01-2016

As Brazil and the world prepare for Carnival, DMovies remembers Black Orpheus and cordial racism in Brazilian cinema - plus we do a very special giveaway [Read More...]

I’d Receive the Worst News from your Beautiful Lips (Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios)

Beto Brant/ Renato Ciasca
2011

Almiro Andrade - 30-01-2016

A steamy melodrama that successfully ventures outside the territory of Brazilian soap [Read More...]

Here Come the Brides (Vestidas de Noiva)

Fábia Sartori Fuzeti
2016

Victor Fraga - 30-01-2016

The day the excretory system gave birth, and the fitting cinematic response thereafter [Read More...]

Futuro Beach (Praia do Futuro)

Karim Ainouz
2015

Victor Fraga - 30-01-2016

Immigration to Europe leads gay lifeguard to a violent rupture with Brazil, in the latest film by Brazilian veteran Karim Ainouz [Read More...]

Batguano

Tavinho Teixeira
2014

Lobo Pasolini - 30-01-2016

Batman and Robin come out of the closet in a dystopian and apocalyptic Brazil [Read More...]

Rat Fever (Febre do Rato)

Cláudio Assis
2011

Victor Fraga - 30-01-2016

The Brazilian Northeastern town of Recife is intoxicated with a heady mixture of artistic, sexual freedom and anarchy [Read More...]

The Year my Parents Went on Vacation (O Ano em que meus Pais Saíram de Férias)

Cao Hamburger
2006

Almiro Andrade - 30-01-2016

Through the eyes of the child: how Cao Hamburger converted military oppression into puerile awe and wonderment [Read More...]

The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho)

Daniel Ribeiro
2014

Petra von Kant - 30-01-2016

Deconstructing the male gaze with love, affection and sun cream [Read More...]

The Dead Girl’s Feast (A Festa da Menina Morta)

Matheus Nachtergaele
2009

Victor Fraga - 30-01-2016

Norman Bates of the jungle has a grip on the population of s small riverside town in the Amazon, in a twisted tale of sexual depravity and religious absurdity, [Read More...]

The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta)

Anna Muylaert
2015

Maysa Monçao - 27-01-2016

The daily saga of domestic workers in Brazil is but an imitation of life, in Anna Muylaert's dirty classic [Read More...]

Waste Land (Lixo Extraordinário)

Lucy Walker/ Joao Jardim/ Karen Harley
2011

Petra von Kant - 27-01-2016

The beautiful garbage of hope: Vik Munoz empowers a community of rubbish pickers, enabling them to turn trash into gold [Read More...]

Wolf at the Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta)

Fernando Coimbra
2013

Maysa Moncao - 27-01-2016

The tragedy of a jilted lover, revenge and infanticide beguiles viewers from beginning to end [Read More...]