The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage Read More »
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Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa, Drama
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it Read More »
Vortex (1967) Nikos Koundouros, Philippo Vlachos, Fanis Hinas, Alexis Mann, Drama
On a deserted Greek island a number of men are leaded by an attractive female who, like a medusa or spider, devours any male without inhibition. Read More »
Entre Nous (1983) Diane Kurys, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Biography, Drama, War
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »
Normal Young Man (1969) Dino Risi, Janet Agren, Lino Capolicchio, Umberto D’Orsi, Comedy
Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a married American couple sightseeing in Italy. Read More »
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Read More »
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Biography, Drama
This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Drama, Horror, Thriller
In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and ‘Baby’ Jane Hudson live together. Read More »
Days of Youth (1929) Yasujirô Ozu, Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui, Comedy
The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirô Yûki and Tatsuo Saitô) who vie for the attention of the same girl (Junko Matsui) during a skiing trip. Read More »
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) Yûya Ishii, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Drama
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a ‘girlie bar’ hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation Read More »
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Comedy
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. Read More »
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Drama, History, War
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
The Wild Reeds (1994) André Téchiné, Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Drama
In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. Read More »
Backfire (1950) Vincent Sherman, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans’ hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch Read More »
Possessed (1947) Curtis Bernhardt, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls “David”. Read More »