In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof Read More »
Drama
The Fugitive (1947) John Ford, Emilio Fernández, Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »
Ruby Gentry (1952) King Vidor, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden
Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina. Read More »
Espionage Agent (1939) Lloyd Bacon, Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent Read More »
Comet Over Broadway (1938) Busby Berkeley, John Farrow, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel, Drama, Romance
Eve Appleton, wife of small-town garage owner Bill Appleton, has theatrical ambitions. Read More »
Today and Tomorrow (2003) Alejandro Chomski, Antonella Costa, Carlos Lipsic, Romina Ricci, Drama
At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn’t find her rent money she’ll be homeless in 24 hours. Read More »
A Story of Women (1988) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Drama, Romance
Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
Twelfth Night (1970) John Sichel, Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Drama
In this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – a fanciful farce of classic proportions with a wealth of slapstick Read More »
Women in Bondage (1943) Steve Sekely, Gail Patrick, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Drama, War
Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Read More »
Hell on the Beach (1966) José Bénazéraf, Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Planchon, Georges Claess, Crime, Drama
Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Read More »
Stick (1985) Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Action, Crime, Drama
Ernest ‘Stick’ Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Read More »
Torch Singer (1933) Alexander Hall, George Somnes, Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Drama, Musical, Romance
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. Read More »
Die Beischlafdiebin (1998) Christian Petzold, Constanze Engelbrecht, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Richy Müller, Drama
Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany. Read More »