Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. Read More »
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La désenchantée / The Disenchanted (1990) Benoît Jacquot, Judith Godrèche, Marcel Bozonnet, Ivan Desny, Drama, Romance
Seventeen-year-old Beth is just finishing school, and lives in Paris with her bedridden mother and younger brother. Read More »
Tih Minh (1918) Louis Feuillade, Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot, Adventure, Mystery
Jacques d’Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that Read More »
Les Témoins / The Witnesses (2007) André Téchiné, Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Drama, Romance
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer’s return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Read More »
Cita imposible (1958) Antonio Santillán, Beni Deus, Claudine Dupuis, Juanita Espín, Crime, Drama
When Rosario is released from a one year prison sentence in Barcelona women’s detention center, she is determined to prove her innocence. Read More »
Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Read More »
Rikollinen nainen / A Woman of Crime (1952) Teuvo Tulio, Regina Linnanheimo, Eija Karipää, Tauno Majuri, Drama, Romance
Regina Linnanheimo plays Eeva, a happy and spirited lady who is being courted by two gentlemen. Read More »
Shi no toge / The Sting of Death (1990) Kôhei Oguri, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi, Drama
Period drama set in the 1950’s about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair. Read More »
Les innocents (1987) André Téchiné, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Claude Brialy, Simon de La Brosse, Drama
The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama. Read More »
Lo sbarco di Anzio / Anzio (1968) Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan
Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. Read More »
Kong shan ling yu / Raining in the Mountain (1979) King Hu, Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Chun Shih, Action, Drama
An esquire brings a female thief and his bailiff to search out a priceless handwritten scroll by Tripitaka, in a temple at the mountains. Read More »
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Dinah Stabb, Merdelle Jordine, Riannon Tise, Drama
In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood. Read More »
Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Fantasy, Horror
Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn’t die, and disappears. Read More »
La mano de un hombre muerto / The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962) Jesús Franco, Ana Castor, Howard Vernon, Paula Martel, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the Austrian Alpine town of Holfen, a young woman is found murdered. Theo and Hansel, two wood-cutters, stop off at a bar where they tell Dr. Kalman, an academic studying local folk tales Read More »
The Killing Machine (1975) Noribumi Suzuki, Shin’ichi Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Makoto Satô, Action, Drama
Sonny Chiba plays the character referred to as “Mr Soh”, who is based on the true life founder of Shorinji Kempo, Doshin So. Mr Soh has been acting as a secret agent in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation. Read More »