Foul-tempered René Amistadi suffers from muscular dystrophy. He wants to make love to a woman while there’s still time. Read More »
Comedy
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall
A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there. Read More »
Big Shots (1987) Robert Mandel, Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy
Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago’s South Side. Read More »
Victor Victoria (1982) Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), a down-and-out British soprano, struggles to find work in the nightclubs of 1930s Paris. Read More »
A Dog’s Will AKA O Auto da Compadecida (2000) Guel Arraes, Matheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Rogério Cardoso
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. Read More »
The Count Of The Old Town AKA Munkbrogreven (1935) Edvin Adolphson, Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén
This comedy romp takes place in and around Stockholm’s Old Town, which is inhabited by various dubious characters doing dubious things Read More »
Shanghai Blues AKA Shang Hai zhi yen (1984) Hark Tsui, Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, Sally Yeh
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. Read More »
Girl’s Apartment AKA L’appartement des filles (1963) Michel Deville, Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert
A charming gold smuggler tries to recruit equally charming air hostesses to transport gold bars to Bombay. Read More »
Mr. Saturday Night (1992) Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner
Buddy Young was the comic’s comic, beloved by everyone. Read More »
H.O.T.S. (1979) Gerald Seth Sindell, Susan Kiger, Lisa London, Pamela Jean Bryant
College exploitation film focusing on the wild escapades of the women of H.O.T.S. Sorority. Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »
Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956) Edward L. Cahn, Mike Connors, Lisa Gaye, Sterling Holloway
A group of worried adults attempt to prohibit rock and roll music in their city because they believe that the music boosts juvenile delinquency. Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »
The Oracle (1953) C.M. Pennington-Richards, Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna
An Irish “oracle” foretells the next day’s track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar. Read More »
Policarpo AKA Policarpo ‘ufficiale di scrittura’ (1959) Mario Soldati, Renato Rascel, Carla Gravina, Romolo Valli
The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works Read More »