An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
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A Gamblers Life: The Massacring Fudo (1969) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Jûshirô Konoe, Machiko Hasegawa
A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler – the gambler’s wife and daughter are sick Read More »
Somewhere Beyond Love (1974) Luigi Comencini, Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. Read More »
Salomè (1972) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti
Salomè (Donyale Luna), the whorish daughter of Herod (Carmelo Bene), is lusted after by her depraved stepfather, King Tetrac. Read More »
Hair (1979) Milos Forman, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. Read More »
Terrifying Girls High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973) Norifumi Suzuki, Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Seiko Saburi
Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic Read More »
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989) Juraj Jakubisko, Bolek Polívka, Ivan Drozdy, Judita Durdiaková
Two men fight to make a life for themselves — and eventually for the damaged woman they come to love. Read More »
The Good and the Bad (1976) Claude Lelouch, Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey
The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks. Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1949) Cecil B. DeMille, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan Read More »
The Vanishing Corporal (1962) Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Read More »
Just Before Nightfall (1971) Claude Chabrol, Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet
Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Read More »
The Sentinel (1992) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard
Mathias, whose dead father was a diplomat in Germany, decides to study the forensic medicine in Paris. Read More »
The Male Animal (1942) Elliott Nugent, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Read More »
Thunder Road (1958) Arthur Ripley, Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. Read More »
Sacred Heart (2005) Ferzan Ozpetek, Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Di Stefano, Lisa Gastoni
Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends. Read More »