Film Movement Plus - January 2025 Streaming Premieres
By Film Movement|January 1, 2025
JANUARY 3
Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters apart across the Israeli border wall. After their son is injured, a 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey. Mustafa must attempt to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall.
Tang Dynasty emperors, Ming Dynasty scholars, assorted fortune tellers and Buddhist monks inhabit a trio of erotic and mystical Chinese legends.
JANUARY 10
A lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, goes in search of the mother who abandoned him as a child while struggling to adapt to his new life outside of prison.
Legends are born and dreams become reality in three tales centering around an ancient Ming Dynasty brothel that steam with erotic myths, secret trysts and romantic twists of fate.
JANUARY 17
Mateo and his mother Lili (Ángela Molina) have been inseparable for years. But when Lili is diagnosed with a fatal illness, their toxic mother-son relationship is taken to extreme ends.
JANUARY 24
Explore the unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, a director of Italian B-movies and the screenwriter of Sergio Corbucci's Django. An unsung provocateur, Vivarelli was the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card and was one of the key music journalists responsible for bringing rock and roll to Italy.
Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. Nana suffers in silence until the day she meets one of her husband’s mistresses and everything changes.
JANUARY 28
Amid the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, Russ Meyer transcended the sexploitation genre by crafting this "bosomacious melodrama" (Time Magazine) about racism, communism, bush pilots and draft dodgers.
Russ Meyer returns to his camp roots in this "sort of sequel" to his 1968 wildly successful hit Vixen. When a hot-blooded wife and a psychotic cop come together, it ignites a cross-country odyssey of violence, vengeance and relentless coitus.
The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take on Our Town that presents an unwashed look at Small Town USA, complete with faith healers, war criminals, bosom buddies and the quest for sexual salvation.
JANUARY 31
It’s not Interpol, it's Asia-pol, a law enforcement agency somewhere between the police and Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jimmy Wang Yu stars as a down and dirty secret agent battling against homicidal Japanese gold smugglers amidst femme fatales, damsels-in-distress and erotic strip tease artists.
Four women with very different life stories come together at Girl's Blood, a members-only, illegal mixed martial arts league in Roppongi, where the participants dress up in unique cosplay and fight each other in brutal cage matches.
In postwar Japan a neighborhood is nearly torn apart when a Korean gang tries to take over the local market until a tough doctor steps in. Tai Kato’s groundbreaking feature tackles controversial issues with a blend of melodrama and action.
As the police investigate a rash of brutal murders, the unscrupulous killer’s murky motivations remain elusive. A labyrinthine character study slowly unfolds implying that the targets of these attacks may be culpable in their own demise.