The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome Read More »
Drama
Hypocrites (1915) Lois Weber, Courtenay Foote, Myrtle Stedman, Herbert Standing
The parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic Read More »
War and Love in Kabul AKA Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz – Eine Liebe in Kabul (2009) Helga Reidemeister, Hossein, Shaima
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. Read More »
Under the Piano (1996) Stefan Scaini, Amanda Plummer, Megan Follows, Teresa Stratas
An autistic child growing up in the 1940’s and 50’s with a mother who is bitter because Read More »
The Queen of the Night AKA La reina de la noche (1994) Arturo Ripstein, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alberto Estrella, Blanca Guerra
Fictional biography of Mexican folk singer Lucha Reyes. The film tells the story of her bisexual love affairs Read More »
The French Detective AKA Adieu poulet (1975) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux
When political thugs murder an opponent’s volunteer and also kill a cop Read More »
The Mirror Has Two Faces AKA Le miroir a deux faces (1958) André Cayatte, Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. Read More »
Frisco Waterfront (1935) Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley, Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes Read More »
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Okefenokee (1959) Roul Haig, Peter Coe, Peggy Maley, Henry Brandon
Gangland boss Joe Kalhari, working with Ricki Hart, operator of a swamp-side dive Read More »
The Door and the Woman of the Butcher AKA La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969) Luis Alcoriza, Ismael Rodríguez, Chano Urueta, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Carlos Piñar, Armando Silvestre
A movie divided in two segments, the first “la Puerta” (the Door) is about a high society Read More »
Battleship Potemkin AKA Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. Read More »
I Am a Camera (1955) Henry Cornelius, Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters
In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in Berlin Read More »
The Devil’s in Love (1933) William Dieterle, Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne
Unjustly convicted of murdering the major who transferred him to another outpost Read More »
The Most Beautiful Wife AKA La moglie più bella (1970) Damiano Damiani, Alessio Orano, Ornella Muti, Tano Cimarosa
Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss Read More »