This documentary focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers Terry Funk, Mick Foley (Mankind) Read More »
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Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
Hitler: A Film from Germany AKA Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich Read More »
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Paul Cox, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, David Wenham, Jan Kleinejan
The true story of the 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers. Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) Bruce Beresford, Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village Read More »
Machuca (2004) Andrés Wood, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Read More »
Diary for My Lovers AKA Napló szerelmeimnek (1987) Márta Mészáros, Ágnes Csere, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Polony
A continuation of “Diary for My Children,” the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director. Read More »
Air Cadet (1951) Joseph Pevney, Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol
Universal’s Air Cadet stars Stephen McNally as the obligatory tough topkick, here assigned to whip a bunch of green pilots into shape. Read More »
Anastasia (1956) Anatole Litvak, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute Read More »
The First Film (2015) David Wilkinson, Bernard Atha, Stephane Cornicard, Tom Courtenay
In October 1888 Louis Le Prince produced the world’s first films in Leeds,England. Read More »
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018) Rob Garver, Woody Allen, Lili Anolik, Alec Baldwin
Pauline Kael, the New Yorker film critic for 25 years until the early 1990s, was a lightning rod of American culture. Read More »
Hero on the Front AKA Soldado Milhões (2018) Gonçalo Galvão Teles, Jorge Paixão da Costa, João Arrais, Miguel Borges, Raimundo Cosme
A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle Read More »
Hunger (2008) Steve McQueen, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike. Read More »