The Vampire(Le vampire)
✭ ✭ ✭
France · 1945
9m
Director Jean Painlevé
Starring Max Schreck
Genre Documentary
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
After a look at some strange creatures, the narrator and camera take us to the Chaco forest, on the borders of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where a vampire bat lives, desmodus rotondus, attacking wildlife and domesticated creatures, killing small ones by draining all their blood and killing large ones by leaving a parasite in their bloodstream. Four inches long, with a 12-inch wingspread, we see it walk, approach a victim, pull out a patch of fur large enough for it to engage its teeth, then lap six or seven ounces of blood. Its saliva may be an anesthetic keeping its victims from waking. A stub nose and harelip contribute to its efficiency and its hideous look.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Throne of Blood
(蜘蛛巣城)
Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan ranks among his most acclaimed films.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Plex,
Ran
(乱)
The Greatest Shakespeare Film
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1985
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Foreign Correspondent
On the eve of WWII, American crime reporter Johnny Jones is sent to Europe to get the scoop on the situation there.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1940
- Director Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley
- Genre Action, Mystery, Thriller, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV
Eyes Without a Face
(Les Yeux sans visage)
A plastic surgeon goes to extreme lengths to give his disfigured daughter a new face.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1960
- Director Georges Franju
- Cast Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Under the Skin
Unsuspecting men fall under the spell of a seductive alien that prowls the streets of Glasgow.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States • 2014
- Director Jonathan Glazer
- Cast Scarlett Johansson, Kryštof Hádek, Paul Brannigan, Michael Moreland, Scott Dymond, Jeremy McWilliams
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
Summer Vacation
(חופש גדול)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Israel • 2012
- Director Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit
- Cast Yiftach Klein, Oded Leopold, Hilla Vidor, Ido Bartal, Ruslan Levchuk, Bar Minali
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
S Is for Stanley
(S is for Stanley)
30 years by his side.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Alex Infascelli
- Cast Emilio D'Alessandro, Alex Infascelli, Janette Woolmore
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Tubi TV
End of the Century
(Fin de siglo)
What seems like a one-night encounter between two strangers becomes an epic, decades-spanning relationship depicted in nonlinear fashion.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Argentina • 2019
- Director Lucio Castro
- Cast Juan Barberini, Ramón Pujol, Mía Maestro, Mariano López Seoane, Helen Celia Castro-Wood
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu