A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. Read More »
Daily Archives: January 16, 2020
Kiri-no-hata AKA Sweet Revenge (1977) Katsumi Nishikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Read More »
King of the Roaring 20’s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) Joseph M. Newman, David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson
Moving from one scam to another Arnold Rothstein quickly becomes rich, and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling joints. Read More »
La Môme AKA La Vie En Rose (2007) Olivier Dahan, Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Read More »
Two Thousand Women (1944) Frank Launder, Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc
Women in a French concentration camp conceal downed British airmen from Nazi soldiers, and try to help them escape. Read More »
‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell AKA Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979) Grigori Kromanov, Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Read More »
Kunoichi ninpô-chô: Yagyû gaiden AKA Kunoichi: Lady Ninja (1998) Hitoshi Ozawa, Yûko Moriyama, Kazuki Takeda, Momoka Saeki
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined Read More »
Abenteuer in Wien AKA Adventures in Vienna (1952) Emil E. Reinert, Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner
In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »