Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2017
The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972) Martin Goldman, Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Western
A slave kills a white man in self-defense and heads West towards freedom, pursued by a professional slave hunter. Read More »
Karayuki-san / The Making of a Prostitute (1975) Shôhei Imamura, Kurahachi Fukuda, Tora Hirano, Documentary
It is a documentary on one of the Japanese “karayuki-san,” who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Read More »
Apachen (1973) Gottfried Kolditz, Gojko Mitic, Milan Beli, Colea Rautu, Western
In Northern Mexico, the Apache tribe have negotiated an agreement, granting passage over their land to the Mexicans in exchange for food. Read More »
Bermuda Mystery (1944) Benjamin Stoloff, Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Mystery
Preston Foster is a private detective who gets mixed up with a somewhat ditzy Ann Rutherford. It seems she thinks her uncle was murdered. Read More »
Destination Unknown (1942) Ray Taylor, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Sam Levene, Drama, Romance, War
In Shanghai, Elena Varnoff attempts to learn the secret of the priceless-and-hidden St. Petersburg from Karl Renner, an Axiz agent working with the Japanese. Read More »
La vie et rien d’autre / Life and Nothing But (1989) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Drama, War
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families’ descriptions. Read More »
Apache Blood (1975) Vern Piehl, Ray Danton, Dewitt Lee, Troy Nabors, Western
After a massacre of an Indian village by the U.S army, a survivor, Yellow shirt (Ray Danton) goes after them for revenge. Read More »
Quién sabe / A Bullet for the General (1967) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Western
El Chuncho’s bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias’ revolutionaries. Read More »
Malu Tianshi / Street Angel (1937) Muzhi Yuan, Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Comedy, Drama, Musical
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller. Read More »
Hyènes / Hyenas (1992) Ami Diakhate, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mansour Diouf, Comedy, Drama
A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village’s elders are reduced to selling town possessions to pay debts. Read More »
Pine Flat (2006) Sharon Lockhart, Amy Bates, Jessica Blain, Matthew Blain, Drama, Experimental, Documentary
Set in a small town in the Sierra Nevadas, Pine Flat is a look at youth and a meditation on nature, socialization, and solitude. Read More »
Les vampires (1915) Louis Feuillade, Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Action, Adventure, Crime
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires. Read More »
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Michael Anderson, George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Read More »
Sixty Six (2006) Paul Weiland, Charlie Clark, Nick Shirm, Thomas Drewson, Biography, Comedy, Drama
A boy’s barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
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