Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Read More »
Drama
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Biography, Drama
This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Drama, Horror, Thriller
In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and ‘Baby’ Jane Hudson live together. Read More »
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) Yûya Ishii, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Drama
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a ‘girlie bar’ hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation Read More »
The Outside Man (1972) Jacques Deray, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. Read More »
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Drama, History, War
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
The Wild Reeds (1994) André Téchiné, Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Drama
In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. Read More »
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) Archie Mayo, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Romance, Drama
Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. Read More »
Possessed (1947) Curtis Bernhardt, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls “David”. Read More »
Zaza (1923) Allan Dwan, Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Romance, Drama
Zaza (Gloria Swanson) is an actress and the favorite at an theater in a small French town and she dreams of performing in Paris. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
The Prize (1963) Mark Robson, Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Crime, Drama, Mystery
For some reason, this year’s Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Read More »
Tristana (1970) Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Drama
When the young woman Tristana’s mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Crime, Drama
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses. Read More »
Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Comedy, Drama
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Read More »