A lush, baroque adaptation of Jean Racine’s 1670 tragedy about a Roman emperor who bends to popular will and declines to marry the Palestinian queen he loves. Read More »
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964) Thomas Hanlon
When Hollywood was mostly orange groves, Fort Lee, New Jersey was a center of American film production: D. W. Griffith made many one-reel Biograph dramas Read More »
Sirocco (1951) Curtis Bernhardt, Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Märta Torén
In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. Read More »
Lautrec (1998) Roger Planchon, Régis Royer, Elsa Zylberstein, Anémone
Life, passion, love…all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec’s art. Read More »
The Legions of Cleopatra (1959) Vittorio Cottafavi, Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni, Georges Marchal
Roman Emperor Octavian rules the empire from Rome, and his rival Marc Antony has taken Egyptian queen Cleopatra Read More »
I Walk Alone (1948) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner, Frankie’s former partner in bootlegging Read More »
Twenty Hours (1965) Zoltán Fábri, Antal Páger, János Görbe, Emil Keres
The reporter spends only twenty hours in the village. In his conversations, twenty years of history unfolds. Read More »
Girlhood (2014) Céline Sciamma, Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood Read More »
Gun Crazy (1950) Joseph H. Lewis, John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. Read More »
Revenge of the Virgins (1959) Peter Perry Jr., Charles Veltmann Jr., Jodean Lawrence, Stanton Pritchard
Tenderfoot Burton and his wife join forces with an old prospector to search for the rich gold strike the old-timer claims to know of. Read More »
141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence (1975) Zoltán Fábri, András Bálint, Mari Csomós, Zoltán Latinovits
Parcen Lörinc the Great, the son of a large-scale family, is eager to be among the workers often to visit one of the suburban pubs. Read More »
One Wild Night (1938) Eugene Forde, June Lang, Dick Baldwin, Lyle Talbot
When four men disappear after withdrawing large sums from the same bank Read More »
The Thing That Couldn’t Die (1958) Will Cowan, William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone
A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt’s ranch. Read More »
Time Trackers (1989) Howard R. Cohen, Wil Shriner, Ned Beatty, Kathleen Beller
When an evil scientist steals his colleague’s time machine, his colleague’s beautiful Read More »
Une nouvelle vie (1993) Olivier Assayas, Sophie Aubry, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau
Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine’s. Read More »