A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes. Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2018
High School Hellcats (1958) Edward Bernds, Yvonne Lime, Brett Halsey, Jana Lund, Crime, Drama
The Hellcats are an all-female gang bent on bucking authority and terrorizing the schools by doing things like having a bad attitude toward their teachers and parents. Read More »
Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo / Flesh Will Surrender (1947) Alberto Lattuada, Aldo Fabrizi, Roldano Lupi, Yvonne Sanson, Drama
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Read More »
Gigi (1949) Jacqueline Audry, Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Yvonne de Bray, Comedy, Romance
Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. Read More »
Estrada de Palha / Hay Road (2012) Rodrigo Areias, Vítor Correia, Nuno Melo, Inês Mariana Moitas, Adventure, Drama, Western
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother’s death. Read More »
Drive, He Said (1971) Jack Nicholson, William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. Read More »
Yo, la peor de todas / I, the Worst of All (1990) María Luisa Bemberg, Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Drama
A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. Read More »
Chéri (1950) Pierre Billon, Jean Desailly, Marcelle Chantal, Jane Marken, Comedy, Drama
Fred Peloux nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother’s friends, all high class prostitutes past their best. Read More »
The Pornographers: Introduction to Anthropology (1966) Shôhei Imamura, Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Ganjirô Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob Read More »
Lost in the Wild (1993) Larry Shaw, Lindsay Wagner, Robert Loggia, David Clennon, Adventure, Drama
A couple of student nurses decide to join some doctors to work in a medical station in the rain-forest a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town Catamaco. Read More »
Kuroi Ame / Black Rain (1989) Shôhei Imamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Drama
Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Read More »
The Woman God Forgot (1917) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, History, Romance
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. Read More »
Two People (1973) Robert Wise, Peter Fonda, Lindsay Wagner, Estelle Parsons, Drama, Romance
Evan Bonner is an army deserter who returns home to deal with the fallout of his actions. Read More »
Mustang Country (1976) John C. Champion, Joel McCrea, Robert Fuller, Patrick Wayne, Western
A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion. Read More »
Surprise Package (1960) Stanley Donen, Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward, Comedy
An American gangster is exiled from the United States for criminal activity and is sent back to the Greek island where he was born. Read More »