After the death of her parents young girl Manuela von Meinhardis is sent to a boarding school where Prussian drill rules the education. Read More »
Monthly Archives: May 2020
The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet AKA Kadin Hamlet (1977) Metin Erksan, Fatma Girik, Sevda Ferdag, Reha Yurdakul
An extraordinary interpretation of Hamlet from the phenomenal director of the Turkish Cinema: Metin Erksan. Read More »
The Mexican Spitfire’s Baby (1941) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers
It is the Lindsay’s wedding anniversary and they are fighting. To help them settle down with a house and children Read More »
Onionhead (1958) Norman Taurog, Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau
After his girlfriend Jo refuses to make a commitment to their relationship, Al Woods decides to enlist and finds himself in the US Coast Guard. Read More »
The Restless Breed (1957) Allan Dwan, Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jay C. Flippen
Educated but hot-headed Mitch Baker travels to the border town of Mission intent on avenging the death Read More »
Road to Rio (1947) Norman Z. McLeod, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship Read More »
Executive Action (1973) David Miller, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer
A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned Read More »
Dinner at Fred’s (1997) Shawn Thompson, Gil Bellows, Parker Posey, Kevin McDonald
Richard leaves his corporate office for a weekend at the country house of his fiancé, who is his boss’ daughter. Read More »
Mickybo and Me (2004) Terry Loane, John Joe McNeill, Niall Wright, Julie Walters
Based on the play of the same name the film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. Read More »
The Florodora Girl (1930) Harry Beaumont, Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold-digger. Read More »
Outskirts AKA Okraina (1933) Boris Barnet, Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. Read More »
I Believe in You (1952) Basil Dearden, Michael Relph, Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker, Godfrey Tearle
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of The Blue Lamp (1950) Read More »
The Abnormal Female (1969) George Rodgers, Pamela Berkley, Jeanette Foster, Carol Wilson
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems. Read More »
Taoism Drunkard AKA Gui ma tian shi (1984) Cheung-Yan Yuen, Yat Chor Yuen, Shun-Yee Yuen
A Taoist priest is ordered to find a Cherry Boy to appease his temple’s ancestors. Read More »
What a Carve Up! (1961) Pat Jackson, Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton
Ernie’s uncle Gabriel has only died but to assert his inheritance he should spend the night at the ancestral house Read More »