Poor Sicilian fishers are exploited by fish wholesalers. One of the families is trying to escape them by being their own boss. But fate nobody helps them, and even fate is against them. Read More »
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I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) Mario Monicelli, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Comedy, Crime
Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki, Biography, Drama
In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. Read More »
Vampires Kiss (1988) Robert Bierman, Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Comedy, Horror
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. Read More »
Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Bille August, Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Drama
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Read More »
John and Jane (2005) Ashim Ahluwalia, Glen Castinho, Sydney Fernandes, Nikesh Soares, Documentary
A entirely original blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, JOHN & JANE follows the stories of six “call agents” that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center. Read More »
Postcards From The Zoo / Kebun binatang (2012) Edwin, Adjie Nur Ahmad, Klarysa Aurelia, Ladya Cheryl, Drama
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Read More »
Nippon konchuki / The Insect Woman (1963) Shôhei Imamura, Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki, Drama
Amorality in Japan. Tome is born into poverty in rural Japan, in the late 1910s. Chuji, her father, dotes on her; her mother is less faithful. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman (1968) Tokuzô Tanaka, Raizô Ichikawa, Miwa Takada, Yaeko Mizutani, Drama
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea – especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off. Read More »
Ninjô kami fûsen / Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) Sadao Yamanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Tsuruzô Nakamura, Drama
The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes. Read More »
Day of the Outlaw (1959) André De Toth, Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Western
In the quiet frontier town of Bitters, Wyo., a dispute between cattleman Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) and farmer Hal Crane (Alan Marshal) is about to boil over into a bloody feud. Read More »
Alfred (1995) Vilgot Sjöman, Sven Wollter, Rita Russek, Judit Danyi, Biography, Drama
Alfred is highly successful in applying scientific finds to business ideas. With his fathers approval he leads the family company to an international standing. Read More »