During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Read More »
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) Garson Kanin, Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Working girl/telephone operator Janie is engaged to conservative, dull, but very reliable car salesman Tom Read More »
Montecarlo (1956) Samuel A. Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O’Connell
A gambler very much in debt, sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless. Read More »
The Girl on the Boat (1962) Henry Kaplan, Norman Wisdom, Millicent Martin, Richard Briers
The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt’s cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties Read More »
Hoodlum Empire (1952) Joseph Kane, Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker
A former gangster who joined the army during World War II and became a hero is now leading a respectable life, out of the rackets. Read More »
The Stone Cross AKA Kaminnyy khrest (1968) Leonid Osyka, Boryslav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk
The Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories (“The Stone Cross” and “The Thief,” both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl’ Stefanyk. Read More »
The Rising of the Moon (1957) John Ford, Tyrone Power, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. Read More »
Shadow Kill AKA Nizhalkkuthu (2002) Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Sukumari, Reeja
Kaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess. Read More »
Strange Gardens AKA Effroyables Jardins (2003) Jean Becker, Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte
France under occupation by the Germans during WW2: Two men inspired by a free France radio broadcast perpetrate Read More »
State Penitentiary (1950) Lew Landers, Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth
Roger Manners (Warner Baxter), a former aircraft manufacturer is wrongly accused Read More »
Code Name: Tiger AKA Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche (1964) Claude Chabrol, Roger Hanin, Maria Mauban, Daniela Bianchi
A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Read More »
Doll AKA Papusza (2013) Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, Jowita Budnik, Zbigniew Walerys, Antoni Pawlicki
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs Read More »
Hanna K. (1983) Costa-Gavras, Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne
Hanna Kaufman is a Jewish-American, who moved to Israel and now works as a defense lawyer there. Read More »
Tango argentino (1992) Goran Paskaljevic, Mija Aleksic, Predrag Manojlovic, Nikola Zarkovic
Nikola is an ten-year-old boy who enjoys relating with the old people that his mother shops for and cleans up for. Read More »
Blonde from Brooklyn (1945) Del Lord, Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, Thurston Hall
In Blonde from Brooklyn, Bob Haymes (credited as Robert Stanton) plays ex-G.I. Dixon Harper Read More »