In the late fifties John Hogue, his wife and daughter, Dora, are living in a little cabin Read More »
History
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair AKA I banchieri di Dio – Il caso Calvi (2002) Giuseppe Ferrara, Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Giancarlo Giannini
This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank Read More »
Bengal Brigade (1954) Laslo Benedek, Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Thiess
The muscular physique of Rock Hudson is given plenty of screen exposure in the British-India actioner Bengal Brigade. Read More »
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, John Schlesinger
Based on Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful Read More »
Rise Against the Sword AKA Abare Gôemon (1966) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Makoto Satô
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. Read More »
The Legend II AKA Fong Sai Yuk 2 (1993) Corey Yuen, Jet Li, Josephine Siao, Adam Cheng
The Cantonese hero Fong Sai Yuk becomes involved in the secret brotherhood “The Red Flower” Read More »
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) Richard Kaplan, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid, Corinne Alsop Cole
Richard Kaplan documents the life of one of America’s most influential first ladies. Read More »
Belizaire the Cajun (1986) Glen Pitre, Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling
This inexpensive but effusively energetic film is set in Louisiana’s Cajun country of the 19th century. Read More »
A Queen for Caesar AKA Una regina per Cesare (1962) Piero Pierotti, Viktor Tourjansky, Pascale Petit, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her. Read More »
Private Vices, Public Pleasures AKA Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù (1976) Miklós Jancsó, Lajos Balázsovits, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Branciaroli
Golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. Read More »
Joan of Arc: God’s Warrior (2015) Lucy Swingler, Helen Castor, Georgia Moffett, Michael Feast
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life – and death – of Joan of Arc. Read More »
The Desert of the Tartars AKA Il Deserto dei Tartari (1976) Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma
As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders Read More »
Hercules Against Rome AKA Ercole contro Roma (1964) Piero Pierotti, Sergio Ciani, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days Read More »
The Twilight Samurai AKA Tasogare Seibei (2002) Yôji Yamada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. Read More »
Operación masacre (1973) Jorge Cedron, Marta Albanese, Norma Aleandro, Enrique Alonso
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina Read More »