Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle – her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. Read More »
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Indul a bakterház / The Stationmaster Meets His Match (1980) Sándor Mihályfy, Imre Olvasztó, Róbert Koltai, Teri Horváth, Comedy
The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody’s first though is “I wish you had been hanged when you were born!” drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. Read More »
The Rosary Murders (1987) Fred Walton, Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Life in the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit is upset by a series of killings whose victims are all priests and nuns. Read More »
Saraba Rabauru / Farewell Rabaul (1954) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, War, Romance
This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question “What is war?”, showing the human bonds between Japan and America Read More »
MURDER and murder (1996) Yvonne Rainer, Joanna Merlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Catherine Kellner, Drama, Comedy
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Read More »
Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980) Yvonne Rainer, Annette Michelson, Vito Acconci, Cynthia Beatt, Drama, Experimental
Journeys From Berlin/1971 (1980), her epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia. Read More »
Privilege (1990) Yvonne Rainer, Daniel Martin Berkey, Blaire Baron, Gabrielle Made, Drama, Documentary
Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive malaise of isms that artificially define Read More »
Man tänker sitt / Burrowing (2009) Henrik Hellström, Fredrik Wenzel, Sebastian Eklund, Jörgen Svensson, Hannes Sandahl, Drama
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away. Read More »
Girl in the Headlines (1963) Michael Truman, Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Mystery, Crime, Drama
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of immoral life. Read More »
Young Guns of Texas (1962) Maury Dexter, James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, Jody McCrea, Western
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers’ daughter. Read More »
White Lightnin Road (1967) Ron Ormond, Arline Hunter, Ter’l Bennett, Earl ‘Snake’ Richards, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Rivalry between two stock-car racers, on the track and off. Read More »
Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ernst Lubitsch, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Comedy, Crime, Romance
High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. Read More »
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi, Drama
A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
Ikari no machi / The Angry Street (1950) Mikio Naruse, Jûkichi Uno, Yasumi Hara, Yuriko Hamada, Crime, Drama
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Read More »
Girl from Tobacco Row (1966) Ron Ormond, Tex Ritter, Rachel Romen, Earl ‘Snake’ Richards, Comedy, Musical, Western
Born into an impoverished family in a Southern community of tobacco growers, Nadine Bolton (Rachel Romen) tries to escape from the only life she knows. Read More »