Two local Taoist Priests, Chin and Wu, compete for the task of handling the corpse of a triad commander in a Chinese village. Read More »
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) Irwin Allen, Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
After “The Poseidon Adventure”, in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave Read More »
In Caliente (1935) Lloyd Bacon, Dolores del Rio, Pat O’Brien, Leo Carrillo
Magazine editor Pat O’Brien gives Mexican dancer Dolores Del Rio a bad write-up Read More »
Slightly Scarlet (1956) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June Read More »
A Hatful of Rain (1957) Fred Zinnemann, Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa
Based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, this noir-stained drama provides Read More »
The Comeback Kid (1980) Peter Levin, John Ritter, Susan Dey, Doug McKeon
A down and out former minor league ballplayer finds romance and a renewed zest Read More »
The Games (1970) Michael Winner, Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour
The Games is about four marathon runners from different countries who are preparing for the Rome Olympics. Read More »
The Deep Blue Sea AKA Aoi unabara (1957) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hibari Misora, Ken Takakura, Hachirô Kasuga
From a novel by noted author Setoguchi Torao, this modern-day movie stars the great Misora Hibari. Read More »
The Youth of Maxim AKA Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding Read More »
Tisoy! (1977) Ishmael Bernal, Christopher De Leon, Jay Ilagan, Charo Santos-Concio
Based on a popular comic strip by Nonoy Marcelo, Tisoy (Christopher de Leon) is a bohemian Read More »
Tales of the Uncanny AKA Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) Richard Oswald, Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger
A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife Read More »
Give Us This Day (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan
One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City’s ‘Little Italy” as the locale. Read More »
The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000) Patrick Keiller, Tilda Swinton
A woman is recalled to Britain from the Arctic, where she has spent twenty years working with people who build their houses from snow Read More »
The Wonderful Crook AKA Pas si méchant que ça (1975) Claude Goretta, Marlène Jobert, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Labourier
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Read More »
To Die in Madrid AKA Mourir à Madrid (1963) Frédéric Rossif, Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War Read More »