Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood Read More »
War
Tears of April (2008) Aku Louhimies, Samuel Vauramo, Pihla Viitala, Eero Aho
There is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed. Read More »
The Great Turning Point (1945) Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev
World War II. German high command accumulates enormous forces for the assault. Read More »
Trader Horn (1973) Reza Badiyi, Rod Taylor, Anne Heywood, Jean Sorel
An African trader and big game guide is requested to escort some British troops and is threatened with arrest if he refuses. Read More »
Friendly Fire (1979) David Greene, Carol Burnett, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen Read More »
Around the World (1943) Allan Dwan, Kay Kyser, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics Read More »
Samurai Banners (1969) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kinnosuke Nakamura
Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. Read More »
Miss Arizona (1988) Pál Sándor, Marcello Mastroianni, Gyula Szabó, Hanna Schygulla
Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband Read More »
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) Frank Launder, Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Read More »
Escape in the Desert (1945) Edward A. Blatt, Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning
Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Read More »
Soldiers Three (1951) Tay Garnett, Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven
Retired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army Read More »
Habermann (2010) Juraj Herz, Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Ben Becker
A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family’s lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938. Read More »
Alchemy (1995) Ahmad Reza Darvish, Bita Farahi, Reza Kianian, Khosro Shakibai
During the Iran-Iraq war, Reza’s wife gives birth, and dies soon afterward. Reza is taken as POW. Read More »
The Officers’ Ward (2001) François Dupeyron, Éric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère
The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. Read More »
Those Whom Death Refused (1988) Flora Gomes, Bia Gomes, Tunu Eugenio Almada, Mamadu Uri Balde
The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. Read More »