In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
The Goldwyn Follies (1938) George Marshall, H.C. Potter, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, The Ritz Brothers
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be “Miss Humanity” and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: “Love Walked In.” Read More »
Chain of Events (1958) Gerald Thomas, Dermot Walsh, Susan Shaw, Lisa Gastoni
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks all sorts of complications. Read More »
Wild Company (1930) Leo McCarey, Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club. Read More »
The Desert Song (1953) H. Bruce Humberstone, Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Read More »
Princess Chang Ping (1976) John Woo, Kim Sung Lung, Shuet Shi Mui, Kim-Dan Chu
Love story of Princess Changping, the last princess of the Ming Dynasty in China. Read More »
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) Christopher Petit, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard
A rather loose adaptation of the P. D. James novel. Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency Read More »
A Wall of Silence (1993) Lita Stantic, Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa
A film director decides to make a movie about Silvia, a woman who lost her husband during a particularly violent war. Read More »
Reprisal! (1956) George Sherman, Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. Read More »
In the French Style (1963) Robert Parrish, Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet
A young American girl studying art in Paris can’t decide if she wants to stay or go back home. Read More »
Turnabout (1940) Hal Roach, Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life. Read More »
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) Barbara Kopple, Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Read More »
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) Marc Rothemund, Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held
The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Read More »
The House Across the Street (1949) Richard L. Bare, Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher Read More »
Parole Fixer (1940) Robert Florey, William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Read More »