Roma, Italia. Después de cometer un crimen atroz, un alto oficial de la policía expone pruebas que le incriminan directamente porque su compromiso moral le impide eludir la ley y el orden social que esta protege.
Una desgarradora obra de S&M del cineasta de culto errático Hisayasu Sato, esta entrada de pinku-eiga con tema gay trata sobre un hombre maltratado que literalmente se convierte en un insecto. Naturalmente, Sato toma mucho de la {Metamorfosis} de Franz Kafka y de varias de sus otras obras, pero el efecto general es mucho más sadeano que kafkiano.
As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
When a dedicated college professor is denied tenure, he turns to black magic in a moment of desperation but finds himself trapped in a private hell of his own making.
During a walk in the woods a man stumbles upon a gate blocked by a guard who refuses to let him through. Gaining entry quickly becomes his obsession and only goal, to the detriment of all else, including his own physical and mental health.
Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose
A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.
Two people have a plan and head to a party
The film is a Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. In his attempt to escape, perception of reality, the rational, and the remnants of his human existence is turned upside down.
A film exploring a Kafkaesque setting where spy is played against spy.
En Madrid, un inquilino acepta ignorar la existencia del otro inquilino que vive en su apartamento, de tal manera que ambos puedan habitar la vivienda como si de una de uso individual se tratase.
David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.
Reece Fenton enters the Bureau of Corrections after experiencing a problem with his tax file. Jacob, the woman at the desk, explains that the file has been mixed up with that of ‘Mr Benton’, a 66 year old dead man. Both Jacob and her illiberal supervisor Mr Moggs determine that the best way to resolve this issue is for Mr Fenton to die as well.
An esoteric teleplay about a Man who wakes up in a field in southern England with nothing but a bicycle, a massive bong and no memory of how he got there. When a strange Boy comes to collect him, the Man embarks on a journey to make sense of things and acquire a pint.