Dr. John Pearly is an affable, turn-of-the-century con man who sells a patent medicine whose primary ingredient is whiskey. Read More »
Comedy
I Love Melvin (1953) Don Weis, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. Read More »
Beeswax (2009) Andrew Bujalski, Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky
A pair of identical twin sisters — one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other — ‘same face, different bodies.’ Read More »
The Red Inn (1951) Claude Autant-Lara, Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. Read More »
Before Winter Comes (1968) J. Lee Thompson, David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina
Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. Read More »
Post coitum (2004) Juraj Jakubisko, Franco Nero, Eva Elsnerová, Richard Krajco
“Post Coitum” is a sex tragicomedy. There are five women and four men, who are very unsatisfied with life. Read More »
The Plot Against Harry (1970) Michael Roemer, Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods
A small-time Jewish racketeer, just out of prison, finds himself in a quandary. Read More »
Synecdoche, New York (2008) Charlie Kaufman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams
Life is looking pretty bleak for theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Read More »
The Shoe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »
Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man (1964) Tai Katô, Ryôhei Uchida, Jûshirô Konoe, Hiroko Sakuramachi
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. Read More »
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) Robert Altman, Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death Read More »
Saudade (2011) Katsuya Tomita, Ayano, Chie Kudô, Chika Kumada
Seiji works on construction sites. He sympathizes with Hosaka just back from Thailand. Read More »
Silvia Prieto (1999) Martín Rejtman, Marta Albertinazzi, María Fernanda Aldana, Daniel Barone
Silvia (Rosario Blefari) works in a cafe and is less then thrilled with her life, which seems to be going nowhere. Read More »
The Remarkable Andrew (1942) Stuart Heisler, Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget Read More »
Marble Ass (1995) Zelimir Zilnik, Aleksandar Brujic, Vjeran Miladinovic, Milja Milenkovic
A transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission Read More »