The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor (Sir Peter Ustinov) of dubious sanity. Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2020
A Ghentar si muore facile (1967) León Klimovsky, George Hilton, Ennio Girolami, Marta Padovan
In order to overturn the government of some exotic country, the rebels decide to hire an experienced American diver (George Hilton). Read More »
Advance Patrol (1957) Kazuo Mori, Kenji Sugawara, Yoshirô Kitahara, Ryûji Shinagawa
January 1905, Manchuria. The Russo-Japanese War has been going on for nearly a year. Read More »
Past Tense (1994) Graeme Clifford, Scott Glenn, Anthony LaPaglia, Lara Flynn Boyle
A former cop, who is now an author, notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. Read More »
Ever in My Heart (1933) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. Read More »
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) William Witney, Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Read More »
The Magician (1926) Rex Ingram, Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young girl, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist,and the love of a young surgeon Read More »
The Naked Prey (1965) Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. Read More »
Nightmare City AKA Incubo sulla città contaminata (1980) Umberto Lenzi, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio
In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies Read More »
Women in Trouble (2009) Sebastian Gutierrez, Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton
Several women (and one girl) in L.A. are hiding something from someone else, or discovering something hidden from them. Read More »
Tykho Moon (1996) Enki Bilal, Julie Delpy, Johan Leysen, Michel Piccoli
The McBee family has erected a government over a future ‘colony’, that looks like a run-down Paris Read More »
The Final Countdown (1980) Don Taylor, Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
In 1980, the assistant of the Department of Defense Warren Lasky is assigned by his mysterious chief Richard Tideman Read More »
Poachers AKA Furtivos (1975) José Luis Borau, Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor, Alicia Sánchez
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. Read More »
Obsession (1976) Brian De Palma, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife Read More »
Doktor Glas (1968) Mai Zetterling, Per Oscarsson, Lone Hertz, Ulf Palme
Doktor Glas face ethical complications when a woman, Helga Gregorius Read More »