A young Greek composer is trying to escape the era’s disease, apathy. Read More »
Romance
San Quentin (1946) Gordon Douglas, Lawrence Tierney, Marian Carr, Barton MacLane
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don’t go as planned. Read More »
The Year of Awakening AKA El año de las luces (1986) Fernando Trueba, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Verónica Forqué
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe Read More »
Movie Crazy (1932) Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson
Harold Hall, an accident prone young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in pictures. Read More »
Shéhérazade (2018) Jean-Bernard Marlin, Dylan Robert, Kenza Fortas, Idir Azougli
Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother Read More »
Rub Love (1998) Suh-Goon Lee, Jae-wook Ahn, Pang Eun-jin, Joshua Klausner
In 2028, the cartoonist Han Cho falls for his neighbour Nana. Read More »
Tropical Malady AKA Sud pralad (2004) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom
A romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around Read More »
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven AKA Tabor ukhodit v nebo (1976) Emil Loteanu, Grigore Grigoriu, Svetlana Toma, Barasbi Mulayev
Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men’s hearts and monk them. Read More »
I’ll Tell the World (1934) Edward Sedgwick, Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor
Film follows a renowned American newspaper reporter who always manages Read More »
The Ship from Shanghai (1930) Charles Brabin, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers
A yachting party of rich socialites sailing from Shanghai falls into the hand of a mutineering crew Read More »
Hittin’ the Trail (1937) Robert N. Bradbury, Tex Ritter, Earl Dwire, Jerry Bergh
This was one of the earlier uses of Robert Tansey’s favorite plot Read More »
An Angel from Texas (1940) Ray Enright, Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris
Stage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway. Read More »
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) Jack Clayton, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. Read More »
Tonight We Raid Calais (1943) John Brahm, Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb
British Intelligence dispatches Commando Geoffrey Carter on a one-man raid to destroy Read More »
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) George B. Seitz, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
While Judge Hardy handles a couple’s divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter. Read More »