A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
Drama
Ikari no machi / The Angry Street (1950) Mikio Naruse, Jûkichi Uno, Yasumi Hara, Yuriko Hamada, Crime, Drama
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Read More »
Satansbraten / Satans Brew (1976) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. Read More »
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Biography, Crime, Drama, Action
1934. Young adults Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, are immediately attracted to what the other represents for their life when they meet by chance in West Dallas, Texas. Read More »
Ai to kibô no machi / A Street of Love and Hope (1959) Nagisa Ôshima, Fumio Watanabe, Yuki Tominaga, Kakuko Chino, Drama
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. A rich girl takes an interest in him and tries to help him find a good job. Read More »
Sekkusu hantâ – sei kariudo / Sex Hunter (1980) Toshiharu Ikeda, Erina Miyai, Ayako Ôta, Rei Asô, Drama, Erotic
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Read More »
Priyatel pokoynika / Friend of the Deceased (1997) Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Comedy, Drama
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Read More »
Le Confessionnal (1995) Robert Lepage, Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Read More »
Angel Face (1953) Otto Preminger, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Read More »
Homicide Bureau (1939) Charles C. Coleman, Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Action, Crime, Drama
After being criticized by the Citizens’ League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases Read More »
Duo luo tian shi / Fallen Angels (1995) Kar-Wai Wong, Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Crime, Drama, Romance
A disillusioned killer embarks on his last hit but first he has to overcome his affections for his cool, detached partner. Read More »
Convicted (1938) Leon Barsha, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery
Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger Read More »
It Started in Naples (1960) Melville Shavelson, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Comedy, Drama
Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged “black sheep” brother. Read More »
Lionheart (1987) Franklin J. Schaffner, Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Adventure, Drama
A young knight sets out to join King Richard’s crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. Read More »
Hikinige / Hit and Run (1966) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Eitarô Ozawa, Crime, Drama
A working-class woman becomes bent on revenge after her little boy is killed in a hit and run; she discovers that the man who took the rap was simply a corporate lackey covering up for his boss’s wife. Read More »