In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) Read More »
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New Mr. Vampire AKA Geung see fan sang (1986) Billy Chan, Fong Lui, Siu-Ho Chin, Siu-Fung Wong
Two local Taoist Priests, Chin and Wu, compete for the task of handling the corpse of a triad commander in a Chinese village. Read More »
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) Irwin Allen, Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
After “The Poseidon Adventure”, in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave Read More »
In Caliente (1935) Lloyd Bacon, Dolores del Rio, Pat O’Brien, Leo Carrillo
Magazine editor Pat O’Brien gives Mexican dancer Dolores Del Rio a bad write-up Read More »
Slightly Scarlet (1956) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June Read More »
A Hatful of Rain (1957) Fred Zinnemann, Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa
Based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, this noir-stained drama provides Read More »
The Comeback Kid (1980) Peter Levin, John Ritter, Susan Dey, Doug McKeon
A down and out former minor league ballplayer finds romance and a renewed zest Read More »
The Games (1970) Michael Winner, Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour
The Games is about four marathon runners from different countries who are preparing for the Rome Olympics. Read More »
Give Us This Day (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan
One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City’s ‘Little Italy” as the locale. Read More »
The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000) Patrick Keiller, Tilda Swinton
A woman is recalled to Britain from the Arctic, where she has spent twenty years working with people who build their houses from snow Read More »
Perversion Story AKA Una sull’altra (1969) Lucio Fulci, Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli
The wife of a doctor (Jean Sorel) is murdered. He had a mistress a long ago Read More »
Revenge of Black Eagle AKA La vendetta di Aquila Nera (1951) Riccardo Freda, Rossano Brazzi, Gianna Maria Canale, Vittorio Sanipoli
When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. Read More »
The Beckett Affair AKA L’affare Beckett (1966) Osvaldo Civirani, Lang Jeffries, Krista Nell, Andrea Scotti
Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura Read More »
Kaboom (2010) Gregg Araki, Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka
Smith’s everyday life in the dorm – hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella Read More »
Sheriff with the Gold AKA Uno sceriffo tutto d’oro (1966) Osvaldo Civirani, Caterina Trentini, Jacques Berthier, Luigi Giuliani
The story of a unscrupulous marshal who holds up a gold shipment, an intelligent Read More »