The film begins with the protagonist’s tragic accident that happens before his entering television building Read More »
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Emilia Galotti (1958) Martin Hellberg, Karin Hübner, Hans-Peter Thielen, Gisela Uhlen
The lecherous, tyrannical prince of Guastalla falls in love with Emilia, the daughter of colonel Odoardo Galotti. Read More »
The Gaucho War AKA La guerra gaucha (1942) Lucas Demare, Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence. Read More »
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet AKA Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011) Izuru Narushima, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya
The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930’s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. Read More »
The Californian AKA The Gentleman from California (1937) Gus Meins, Ricardo Cortez, Marjorie Weaver, Katherine DeMille
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians Read More »
The Duel AKA Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek (1973) Iosif Kheifits, Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Lyudmila Maksakova
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. Read More »
Magnificat (1993) Pupi Avati, Luigi Diberti, Arnaldo Ninchi, Massimo Bellinzoni
During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture Read More »
Mandingo (1975) Richard Fleischer, James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
It’s the mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. Falconhurst, a run down plantation, is owned by Warren Maxwell Read More »
Abdul the Damned (1935) Karl Grune, Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, John Stuart
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. Read More »
Jedda (1955) Charles Chauvel, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Robert Tudawali, Betty Suttor
Set against the harsh natural surrounds of outback Northern Territory, Jedda captures Read More »
Augustine (2012) Alice Winocour, Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko
A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot Read More »
Free Men AKA Les hommes libres (2011) Ismaël Ferroukhi, Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby
Paris, occupied France, 1942. Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market. Read More »
Scarlet Dawn (1932) William Dieterle, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Nancy Carroll, Lilyan Tashman
February, 1917. Returning to the German front after a sybaritic leave in Moscow, Russian officer Nikita Krasnoff Read More »
The House on 56th Street (1933) Robert Florey, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin Read More »
Is This Fate? AKA Von wegen ‘Schicksal’ (1979) Helga Reidemeister
This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s Read More »