Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii directs this deranged, over-the-top adaptation from the original manga by Kazuo Koike about a privileged samurai gang in charge of recruiting women for prostitution in old Edo’s pleasure quarter. Read More »
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A batalha de Tabatô / The Battle of Tabato (2013) João Viana, Mamadu Baio, Fatu Djebaté, Imutar Djebaté, Drama
Fatu’s father has returned home to Guinea-Bissau from Portugal to attend her wedding. Read More »
Walk the Proud Land (1956) Jesse Hibbs, Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley, Biography, Western
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Read More »
The Roaring Twenties (1939) Raoul Walsh, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Read More »
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) John M. Stahl, Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Drama
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. Read More »
Montréal la blanche / Montreal, White City (2016) Bachir Bensaddek, Rabah Aït Ouyahia, Karina Aktouf, Reda Guerinik, Drama
In Montreal, one evening when Christmas has fallen during Ramadan, the Muslim fast, the paths of two Algerians cross momentarily, resurrecting a past they thought was long buried. Read More »
Medalia de onoare / Medal of Honor (2009) Cãlin Peter Netzer, Victor Rebengiuc, Camelia Zorlescu, Mimi Branescu, Drama
One day Ion, a 75 year old Romanian man, accidentally receives a Medal of Honor for some ‘heroic’ actions back in WW2, times he barely remembers. Read More »
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Comedy, Drama, Musical
In 1927, Don Lockwood has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown to become a top movie star. Read More »
O Homem Que Copiava / The Man Who Copied (2003) Jorge Furtado, Lázaro Ramos, Renata de Lélis, Sérgio Lulkin, Comedy, Crime, Drama
André, relatively poor, falls in love with Silvia, a neighbor whom he spies with a telescope. Read More »
Stockholm (2013) Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Javier Pereira, Aura Garrido, Jesús Caba, Drama, Romance
The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. Read More »
Hors la vie / Out of Life (1991) Maroun Bagdadi, Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Drama
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Read More »
Les petites guerres / Little Wars (1982) Maroun Bagdadi, Soraya Khoury, Nabil Ismaïl, Roger Hawa, Drama, War
Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman Read More »
Wake Island (1942) John Farrow, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Action, Drama, War
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical lassitude Read More »
Beyrouth ya Beyrouth / Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975) Maroun Bagdadi, Ezzat El Alaili, Mireille Maalouf, Joseph Bou Nassar, Drama
In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. Read More »
El jardín de las delicias / The Garden of Delights (1970) Carlos Saura, José Luis López Vázquez, Luchy Soto, Francisco Pierrá, Drama
Surreal look at a family’s attempts to shock, bully, frighten, coach, and cajole Antonio Cano into regaining his memory and his management powers after an auto accident. Read More »