Sacrifice

A story about countryside in Romania a little before WW1.

Upon their invasion of Taiwan in 1874, the Japanese team up with a sinister tong to hold a martial arts tournament in a plot to root out and assassinate the region's top resistance fighters, thereby breaking the spirit of Chinese patriotism. Two local kung-fu masters prove more than a match for the invaders.

A mother fear that her daughter has been abducted when a phone call is interrupted by something suspicious

Chinese Opera from Hong Kong directed by Lau Fong.

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims.

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall Troupe in a brutal allegory of a closed society. Shot by noted Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, “Gisei” still conveys the shock that Japanese audiences in 1959 must have felt at the birth of Hijikata's ankoku butoh, or "dance of darkness". Richie met Hijikata through mutual friend Yukio Mishima. They decided to collaborate on a film about segregation. Richie memorialized the film in his diary: “It is more than ever about the death of an individual, a distinct kind of human sacrifice.”

Seven years after predicting the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake while she was unwittingly involved in a doomsday cult called Sacred Tide, college student Midori (Miki Handa) continues to have visions through unusual powers of premonition. Meanwhile at the same school, the duplicitous Toko (Miki Handa), who desperately seeks to escape her mundane life, suspects her classmate Okita (Yuzu Aoki) of being the culprit behind a string of disturbing cat killings and the murder of a classmate.

Marcos, a withdrawn park ranger, sees the fragile balance achieved in his isolation collapse with the arrival of a couple of biologists investigating strange bird deaths. Unfortunately, the desire and envy for normality represented by the couple awaken the monster he has been trying to control. His face, his legs, and his arms don’t belong to him and as the desperation becomes incontrollable, he can only see one way out: mutilation.

Illusionist Derren Brown concocts a psychological experiment in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger.

A family celebrating Eid al-Adha is terrorized by an assailant who has a very different idea of sacrifice.

After being released from prison, Müslüm will fulfill his dedication and sacrifice his 2.5-month-old son to God by cutting the throat of him.

A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.

Greedy characters attempt to use black magic to get their hands on a valuable estate. It works out about as well as you'd guess.

A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.

The death of famous artist Saeful Djamil's wife, draws Prista's attention. She is a reporter of Mystery magazine, who is assigned to cover the accident. At the time of taking pictures at the scene of the accident, Prista startles when she sees something strange on her pictures. There is a shadow of an old blond granny.

Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.

A high school graduating class is forced into a sadistic game threatening certain death to all unless they offer one of their own as sacrifice.

The second act in this sadistic game of life and death unfolds as the desperate student body tries to survive through any means possible.