A famed jewel thief named Rochard is slashed to death on a train. His daughter Nicole, a famous nightclub performer in Paris Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Blood Relatives (1978) Claude Chabrol, Donald Sutherland, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Montreal: Late at night the teenage Patricia flees into a police department, covered all over with blood. Read More »
Under Suspicion (1981) Claude Miller, Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Inspector Gallien is investigating the rape and murder of two little girls. The only suspect is attorney Jerome Martinaud, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. Read More »
First Yank Into Tokyo (1945) Gordon Douglas, Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Drama, War
An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW. Read More »
The Miners Hymns (2010) Bill Morrison, Documentary, Drama
The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Read More »
Out in Fifty (1999) Bojesse Christopher, Scott Anthony Leet, Mickey Rourke, Action, Crime, Drama
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge. Read More »
The Liar (1981) Mika Kaurismäki, Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Comedy, Drama
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends Read More »
Stukas (1941) Karl Ritter, Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Drama, War
This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas–fighter-bombers–in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II. Read More »
The Sparrow (1972) Youssef Chahine, Salah Kabil, Ali El Scherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Drama
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt Read More »
Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Comedy, Musical, War
The country of Freedonia is in the middle of a financial crisis and on the brink of revolution. Read More »
Mauro (2014) Hernán Rosselli, Victoria Bustamante, Mauro Martínez, Pablo Ramos, Juliana Simoes Risso, Arthouse, Crime
Mauro walks through the city buying stuff. Anything, it doesn’t matter what. Because Mauro is a passador, as in the streets they call a man who trade fake bills. Read More »
The Young Sinner (1965) Tom Laughlin, Stefanie Powers, William Wellman Jr., Drama, Romance
The story of a small-town football star, Chris Wotan, who defies society, morals and his God and gets into so much trouble that he is expelled from school. Read More »
A Fugitive from the Past (1965) Tomu Uchida, Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Kôji Mitsui, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots them; their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman’s interest. Read More »
Shadow of a Woman (1946) Joseph Santley, Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A young bride’s marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband Read More »
The Quiet Duel (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Drama
In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. Read More »