After a high-class party in Rome, there’s an assault. The victim is injured but lives. Read More »
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Death Walks at Midnight AKA La morte accarezza a mezzanotte (1972) Luciano Ercoli, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Pietro Martellanza
Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. Read More »
Sabotage (1936) Alfred Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema Read More »
The Colonel AKA Mon colonel (2006) Laurent Herbiet, Olivier Gourmet, Robinson Stévenin, Cécile De France
A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Read More »
The Mercenaries AKA Dark of the Sun (1968) Jack Cardiff, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten
British commando, Captain Curry, is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds Read More »
I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death AKA Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino (1969) Giuliano Carnimeo, Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Ettore Manni
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. Read More »
The King and I (1956) Walter Lang, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno
Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has been contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. Read More »
Wake in Fright (1971) Ted Kotcheff, Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job. Read More »
Flirtation AKA Liebelei (1933) Max Ophüls, Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair Read More »
Distant Journey AKA Daleká cesta (1950) Alfréd Radok, Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocásek
Distant Journey follows Hana, a Jewish eye doctor who falls in love and marries a Gentile named Toník. Read More »
The Reflecting Skin (1990) Philip Ridley, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. Read More »
Bad Taste (1987) Peter Jackson, Terry Potter, Pete O’Herne, Craig Smith
Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Read More »
The Long Gray Line (1955) John Ford, Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Francis
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer Read More »
Pieces AKA Mil gritos tiene la noche (1982) Juan Piquer Simón, Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña
While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Read More »
L’atalante (1934) Jean Vigo, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon
When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him as he captains a river barge. Read More »