Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Read More »
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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 »
Up, Down and Sideways (1993) Michael Cacoyannis, Irene Papas, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Panos Mihalopoulos, Comedy
A parody of the life in Athens of the 90ies where a widow and her son get entangled in crazy situations. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Tristana (1970) Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Drama
When the young woman Tristana’s mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Crime, Drama
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses. Read More »