Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair Read More »
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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 »
The Duellists (1977) Ridley Scott, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. Read More »
The Magnetic Monster (1953) Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock, Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron
Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart Read More »
The Baby (1973) Ted Post, Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. Read More »
The Damned AKA Les maudits (1947) René Clément, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers Read More »
Street of Shame AKA Akasen Chitai (1956) Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »
Nights and Weekends (2008) Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Jay Duplass
The film recounts a long-distance relationship between two people, Mattie and James Read More »
Patrick (1978) Richard Franklin, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar
After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital Read More »
The Grissom Gang (1971) Robert Aldrich, Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante
Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish Read More »