When a young solider is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution Read More »
History
25 Fireman’s Street AKA Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973) István Szabó, Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated Read More »
The Battle of El Alamein AKA La battaglia di El Alamein (1969) Giorgio Ferroni, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Michael Rennie
June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Read More »
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach AKA Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini
Utilizing letters Anna Magdalena Bach composed to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian Read More »
The Gold Bug AKA El escarabajo de oro (2014) Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Luciana Acuña, Guillermo Goldschmidt, Walter Jakob
After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden Read More »
The Crucible AKA Les sorcières de Salem (1957) Raymond Rouleau, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor Read More »
The Story of Adele H. AKA L’histoire d’Adèle H. (1975) François Truffaut, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson Read More »
Kelin (2009) Ermek Tursynov, Gulsharat Zhubyeva, Turakhan Sadykova, Erzhan Nurymbet
A woman is led by her family to her new husband’s home, to live with, presumably Read More »
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) Xan Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Vera Carlisle Anderson, C.L. Batten
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Read More »
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) John Farrow, Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish
Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town Read More »
No Way Back AKA Weg ohne Umkehr (1953) Victor Vicas, Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen
In 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. Read More »
Visions of Light (1992) Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels, Conrad L. Hall, John Bailey, Vilmos Zsigmond
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points Read More »
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) George Stevens, Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston
George Stevens’ epic production. “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?” Read More »
The Devils of Monza AKA La monaca di Monza (1987) Luciano Odorisio, Myriem Roussel, Alessandro Gassmann, Renato De Carmine
The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva Read More »
The Arrow (1997) Don McBrearty, Dan Aykroyd, Sara Botsford, Ron White
This series tells the story of the world’s fastest fighter plane ever built Read More »