Rene is a “ripou”, a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Onna no naka ni iru tanin / The Stranger Within a Woman (1966) Mikio Naruse, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Crime, Drama
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Read More »
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1940) David Burton, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers, Richard Clarke, Crime, Drama
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. Read More »
Sciuscià / Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Drama
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys, the orphan Pasquale and his younger friend Giuseppe, are riding. Read More »
Playing Dangerous (1995) Lawrence Lanoff, Mikey LeBeau, David Keith Miller, George Shannon, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Family
A young scientific whiz (Mikey LeBeau) virtually single-handedly defeats corporate mercernaries who take his family hostage to get a blueprint for a top secret super-fast computer chip. Read More »
Idol on Parade (1959) John Gilling, William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Comedy
‘Jeep’ is a rising star who is drafted into the Army and spends the rest of the time trying to avoid being an ‘Idol on Parade’ Read More »
La taglia è tua… l’uomo l’ammazzo io / The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine (1969) Edoardo Mulargia, Robert Woods, Aldo Berti, Marc Fiorini, Western
A group of killers seek out wanted gunman El Puro for the $10,000 dollar reward. Read More »
Le Joueur d’Echecs / The Chess Player (1927) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Drama, Fantasy
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress. Read More »
Shanghai jiaqi / My American Grandson (1991) Ann Hui, Kun-Hsuan Huang, Carina Lau, Peng Sun, Drama
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai. Read More »
Bucktown (1975) Arthur Marks, Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Action, Crime, Drama
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. Read More »
Deadly Friend (1986) Wes Craven, Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Paul Conway and his mother Jeannie Conway travel to a new town where Paul will join the local university invited by Dr. Johanson. Read More »
Splav meduze / The Medusa Raft (1980) Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Olga Kacijan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, Drama
In the early 20’s there’s a group on anarchic artistic yugoslawian yahoos traipsing around the rural never-lands of what then was the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Read More »
Underbara älskade / Suddenly (2006) Johan Brisinger, Michael Nyqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Moa Gammel, Drama
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
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The Lost Man (1969) Robert Alan Aurthur, Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr., Drama
Former U.S. Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who, after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Reveolutionary movement Read More »
The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Umgelter, June Wilkinson, Don Kenney, Karin Dor, Comedy
The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. Read More »