Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami’s brother Read More »
Fantasy
Alice or the last escapade AKA Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977) Claude Chabrol, Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux
Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. Read More »
Boccaccio ’70 (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide Read More »
Nightmare Detective AKA Akumu tantei (2006) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »
Maciste in Hell AKA Maciste all’inferno (1925) Guido Brignone, Bartolomeo Pagano, Umberto Guarracino, Mario Saio
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality. Read More »
Butter on the Latch (2013) Josephine Decker, Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Emily Decker, Stephan Goldbach
At a Balkan folk song and dance camp in the woods of Mendocino, California Read More »
Madame White Snake AKA Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves AKA Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1954) Jacques Becker, Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche
Rich oriental lord Cassim’s cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave Read More »
Warriors of Virtue (1997) Ronny Yu, Angus Macfadyen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton
A young man, Ryan, suffering from a disability, wishes to join the other kids from his schools football team. Read More »
Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye
How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Read More »
Gemini AKA Sôseiji (1999) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Yasutaka Tsutsui
Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. Read More »
Virtual Girl (1998) Richard Gabai, Charlie Curtis, Max Dixon, Miche Straube
John Lewis, a programming genius, has it all- a beautiful wife and a child, a lavish home Read More »
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) Garson Kanin, Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Working girl/telephone operator Janie is engaged to conservative, dull, but very reliable car salesman Tom Read More »
The Giants of Thessaly AKA I giganti della Tessaglia (1960) Riccardo Freda, Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Alberto Farnese
In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders Read More »
The Son of Kong (1933) Ernest B. Schoedsack, Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher
After the disastrous results of his last expedition, Carl Denham leaves New York aboard a ship to escape all the trouble. Read More »