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Savage Souls AKA Les âmes fortes (2001) Raoul Ruiz, Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Read More »
The Wedding Party (1969) Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach, Valda Setterfield, Raymond McNally, John Braswell
See Robert DeNiro in his first starring role in Brian DePalma’s wildly comic first feature The Wedding Party! Read More »
Sour Grape AKA Hndzan (1974) Bagrat Oganesyan, A. Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan
Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father’s death. Read More »
The Man Who Died Twice (1958) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki
A nightclub singer loses her husband in an auto crash, and shortly afterward witnesses the murders of two narcotics agents, also suffers a nervous breakdown. Read More »
This Side of the Law (1950) Richard L. Bare, Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige
David Cummings, a vagrant, is bailed out of prison by Philip Cagle, an lawyer, who hires him to impersonate Read More »
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Stephen Frears, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Read More »
Nekomimi (1994) Jun Kurosawa
Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Read More »
Outsiders AKA Ceddo (1977) Ousmane Sembene, Tabata Ndiaye, Alioune Fall, Moustapha Yade
The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam Read More »
The Deathmaker AKA Der Totmacher (1995) Romuald Karmakar, Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch, Pierre Franckh
Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor Read More »
House of Tolerance AKA L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011) Bertrand Bonello, Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette
Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. Read More »
It’s a Gift (1934) Norman Z. McLeod, W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol
The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife Read More »
Constantine the Great AKA Costantino il grande (1961) Lionello De Felice, Irving Rapper, Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato
Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine Read More »
A Heart in Winter AKA Un coeur en hiver (1992) Claude Sautet, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel Read More »
The Night of the Sunflowers AKA La noche de los girasoles (2006) Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo
As the dead body of a sexually assaulted young woman rests hidden in a sunflower field Read More »