Extremely rare work of Robert Wiene. From the director and year of excellent “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” this work was eventually overshadowed by the success of Caligari. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2017
La Naissance de l’amour / The Birth of Love (1993) Philippe Garrel, Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Drama
Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Read More »
The Hands of Orlac / Orlacs Hände (1924) Robert Wiene, Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Orlac is a world famous pianist. One day he is badly hurt in a big train wreck. He is in danger of losing both his hands so his wife begs the doctors to save them. Read More »
Legion of Terror (1936) Charles C. Coleman, Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Crawford Weaver, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and ‘Slim” Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation Read More »
Historias extraordinarias / Extraordinary Stories (2008) Mariano Llinás, Walter Jakob, Agustín Mendilaharzu, Drama, Mystery
Historias extraordinarias tells the adventures of three men known only as H (Agustin Mendilaharzu, doubling as cinematographer), X (director Mariano Llinás) and Z (Walter Jakob). Read More »
To proxenio tis Annas / The Engagement of Anna (1974) Pantelis Voulgaris, Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Drama
Anna, a shy village girl has come to live and work at the house of an elderly Athenian lady, where the family decides to arrange a match for her, as middle-class ethics prescribe. Read More »
Bô no kanashimi / Like a Rolling Stone (1994) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Crime, Drama
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects ‘protection money’ from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Read More »
It Came from Hollywood (1982) Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Cheech Marin, Documentary, Comedy
Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Gilda Radner and Cheech and Chong present this compilation of classic bad films from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Read More »
The Naked Jungle (1954) Byron Haskin, Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Read More »
Topkapi (1964) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Read More »
La mort en ce jardin / Death in the Garden (1956) Luis Buñuel, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Adventure, Drama
Chark, an adventurer comes to small village in the near of a gold digger’s camp. He is arrested by the local police, who accuse him of having comitted a bank robbery in a neighoured town. Read More »
Sweethearts on Parade (1953) Allan Dwan, Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Drama, Music, Romance
Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Read More »
Beta Som / Torpedo Bay (1963) Charles Frend, Bruno Vailati, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Gabriele Ferzetti, War, Drama
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). Read More »
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination / Warning Shadows (1923) Arthur Robison, Alexander Granach, Max Gülstorff, Lilli Herder, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
During a dinner, given by a wealthy baron and his wive, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor Read More »
Her Sisters Secret (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Drama
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean’s “Mardi Gras” celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. Read More »