The frame story involves a powerful sultan who is unable to, um, rise to the occasion with a new harem girl (Femi Benussi) Read More »
Comedy
Le futur aux trousses (1975) Dolorès Grassian, Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol
The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. Read More »
Bon Voyage! (1962) James Neilson, Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Michael Callan
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana, travels abroad for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Read More »
Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. Read More »
All About Loving (1964) Jean Aurel, Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli, Michel Piccoli
Hélène, who has just broken up with Raoul, a dentist, lets herself be seduced (though not without great resistance) by the obstinate Serge. Read More »
Advance to the Rear (1964) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas
A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they’re up to. Read More »
Goodbye, Columbus (1969) Larry Peerce, Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman
A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. Read More »
Penrod and Sam (1931) William Beaudine, Leon Janney, Frank Coghlan Jr., Cameo the Dog
Two mischievous schoolboys, Penrod and Sam, are constantly in trouble at school. They start their own club, the In-Or-In club, of which they are the only members. Read More »
Hothead (1979) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma
François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. Read More »
New Waterford Girl (1999) Allan Moyle, Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Mary Walsh
It’s sometime in the 1970’s. Fifteen year old loner Agnes Marie Pottie – nicknamed Mooney – dreams of escaping life in New Waterford, a coastal Nova Scotia town on Cape Breton Island. Read More »
Happy Go Lovely (1951) H. Bruce Humberstone, David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. Read More »
Office Killer (1997) Cindy Sherman, Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn
When Dorine Douglas’ job as proofreader for Constant Consumer Magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing Read More »
Miss Robin Hood (1952) John Guillermin, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy
Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children’s’ comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor crime. Read More »
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) John Krish, Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man’s wife. Read More »
Dirty Ho (1976) Chia-Liang Liu, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo
Prince Wang is the 11th prince of Manchuria and an excellent martial artist, but prefers not to draw attention to himself and keeps a low profile Read More »