A teen with permissive parents has caught up in wild parties and the fast life. Read More »
Daily Archives: May 24, 2018
Violette (1978) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »
The Iron Crown (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Meg Flower, Drama
Dependent on the Noh play with the identical title, The Iron Crown is about a girl plotting revenge against her husband that leaves her for a younger girl. Read More »
Heads or Tails (2003) Camilo Luzuriaga, Valentina Pacheco, Marilú Vaca, Luis Vivanco, Drama
After being shipped overseas in the tender age of eight, Virginia yields to Quito, her birthplace, twenty five decades after. Read More »
Eclipse (1962) Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Drama, Romance
At the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her involvement with her boyfriend, the author Ricardo, after a troubled night. Read More »
Lucrezia Borgia (1935) Abel Gance, Edwige Feuillère, Gabriel Gabrio, Maurice Escande, Drama, History, Romance
After the advice of his main adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to try to unify the nation so as to become even stronger. Read More »
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959) Ismael Rodríguez, María Félix, Dolores del Rio, Emilio Fernández, Drama, Romance, War
The Cucaracha is a courageous woman soldier who directs a group of comparable women to the fray from the forces of the Villa colonel, Zeta. Read More »