It’s sometime in the 1970’s. Fifteen year old loner Agnes Marie Pottie – nicknamed Mooney – dreams of escaping life in New Waterford, a coastal Nova Scotia town on Cape Breton Island. Read More »
Happy Go Lovely (1951) H. Bruce Humberstone, David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. Read More »
How Yukong Moved the Mountains (1977) Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. Read More »
The Weaker Sex (1948) Roy Ward Baker, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins
Life on the home front during World War 2. Martha Dacre tries to keep her home running as normal, during the run up to the D Day landings. Read More »
Office Killer (1997) Cindy Sherman, Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn
When Dorine Douglas’ job as proofreader for Constant Consumer Magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing Read More »
Miss Robin Hood (1952) John Guillermin, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy
Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children’s’ comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor crime. Read More »
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) John Krish, Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man’s wife. Read More »
Condemned Women (1938) Lew Landers, Sally Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley
Shoplifter Linda Wilson doesn’t care much for life inside or outside jail until she starts a relationship with prison psychiatrist Philip Duncan. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
Executioners from Shaolin (1977) Chia-Liang Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong
A couple unite – she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy’s father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Read More »