Based on historical events, Rick Ostermann’s “Wolfskinder” is a handsome drama that follows orphaned German children as they wander the chaotic wilderness of Soviet-occupied East Prussia after Germany’s WWII defeat. Read More »
Daily Archives: June 2, 2017
Smorgasbord / Cracking Up (1983) Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Comedy
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. Read More »
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion / Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) Elio Petri, Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
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The Wrecker (1929) Géza von Bolváry, Carlyle Blackwell, Benita Hume, Joseph Striker, Crime, Drama
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. Read More »
Wild and Wonderful (1964) Michael Anderson, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Larry Storch, Comedy
In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle Monsieur Cognac. Read More »
Uciekinier / The Runaway (2007) Marek Tomasz Pawlowski, Kazimierz Piechowski, Documentary
It tells the extraordinary life story of Kazimierz Piechowski, former Auschwitz prisoner no. 918, who organized one of the most amazing escapes from the camp. Read More »
Shimauma / Zebra (2016) Hajime Hashimoto, Ryô Ryûsei, Kenta Suga, Kyoko Hinami, Crime, Thriller
Dora (Ryo Ryusei) and associates runs a badger game scheme to extort victims out of money. One day though, their target looks like an ordinary guy, but he tuns out to be a yakuza. Read More »
Wednesday’s Child (1934) John S. Robertson, Karen Morley, Edward Arnold, Frankie Thomas, Drama
Ten-year-old Bobby and a group of friends see Bobby’s mother kissing a man not her husband. Read More »
Veliki transport / The Great Transport (1983) Veljko Bulajic, James Franciscus, Steve Railsback, Edward Albert, Action, Drama, War
Events from the World War II, when the Liberation Army Supreme Headquarters decided to send reinforcements of more than 1000 young men and women Read More »
Amazing Grace (1974) Stan Lathan, Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash, Comedy
An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office Read More »
Ha-Mashgihim / God’s Neighbors (2012) Meni Yaish, Roy Assaf, Gal Friedman, Itzik Golan, Drama
The film follows Avi, Kobi and Yaniv, three young men who belong to the Breslev Hassidic community and place themselves in charge of supervising the codes of modesty Read More »
So Faraway and Blue (2001) Roy Cross, Nicole Eliopoulos, Daniel Richard Giverin, Julie Ménard, Drama
Julie, our narrator and guide, is a young woman whose father left her when she was young and whose mother recently threw her out of the house because she reminded her too much of him. Read More »
Sao ren / Young Dudes (2012) Yin-jung Chen, Edison Wang, Tsuyoshi Abe, Larisa Bakurova, Drama
Aspiring rock musician Adam (Wang Po-Chieh) is obsessed with a forthcoming apocalypse, rumoured to be on much the same scale as the biblical flood that led to Noah building his infamous ark. Read More »
Hot Dogs auf Ibiza (1979) Max Pécas, Marco Perrin, Sylvain Chamarande, Andréa Schmidt, Comedy, Erotic
Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Read More »
Queen Christina (1933) Rouben Mamoulian, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Queen Christina of Sweden is a dominant European ruler in the 17th century, and has never thought of romance. Read More »