This romantic comedy follows two couples in Copenhagen trying to settle down. Sus, who works in a beauty clinic, tries to live happily with her Italian husband. Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Henry King, Otto Lang, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Biography, Drama, Romance
Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. Read More »
Behold a Pale Horse (1964) Fred Zinnemann, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Drama, War
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. Read More »
Carry on Camping (1969) Gerald Thomas, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Comedy
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. Read More »
La désenchantée / The Disenchanted (1990) Benoît Jacquot, Judith Godrèche, Marcel Bozonnet, Ivan Desny, Drama, Romance
Seventeen-year-old Beth is just finishing school, and lives in Paris with her bedridden mother and younger brother. Read More »
The Man I Married (1940) Irving Pichel, Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Drama
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »
The Toy Tiger (1956) Jerry Hopper, Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Tim Hovey, Comedy
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Read More »
Deported (1950) Robert Siodmak, Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Read More »
Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Drama, Romance
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. Read More »
White Nights (1985) Taylor Hackford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Drama
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. Read More »
Young Fury (1964) Christian Nyby, Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, William Bendix, Western
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. Read More »
Tih Minh (1918) Louis Feuillade, Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot, Adventure, Mystery
Jacques d’Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that Read More »
Little Old New York (1940) Henry King, Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn’t. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
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Les Témoins / The Witnesses (2007) André Téchiné, Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Drama, Romance
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer’s return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Read More »
Miss Julie (1999) Mike Figgis, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Drama
Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex strictures of class bind a man and a woman. Read More »