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The Silver Chalice (1954) Victor Saville, Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver Read More »
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970) Anatole Litvak, Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, John McEnery
A secretary takes her boss’s car for the holiday in the Mediterranean Read More »
Pennies from Heaven (1981) Herbert Ross, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper
In Chicago during the 1930s Depression, sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker Read More »
Judge Roy Bean AKA Le juge (1971) Federico Chentrens, Jean Girault, Pierre Perret, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monti
The Judge is a parody western about Judge Roy Bean. Read More »
The Boy Across the Street AKA Ha-Yeled Me’ever Lerechov (1965) Yosef Shalhin, Arieh Elias, Shaul Shalhin, Hannah Shalhin
David (Shaul Shalhin) is a lonely 12-year-old boy whose drunken father (Arie Elias) Read More »
Cardiogram AKA Kardiogramma (1995) Darezhan Omirbayev, Baurzhan Akhmetov, Zhasulan Asauov, Asil Badayev
Jasulan suffers from heart disease. To treat him, his mother took him to Alma-Ata Read More »
Frisco Jenny (1932) William A. Wellman, Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. Read More »
The Burned Barns AKA Les granges brûlées (1973) Jean Chapot, Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge Read More »
Gates of the Night AKA Les portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné, Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp, pretending to be Destiny Read More »
Lived Once a Song-Thrush (1970) Otar Iosseliani, Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze
Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Read More »
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors AKA Tini zabutykh predkiv (1965) Sergei Parajanov, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father’s killer. Read More »
Storm Over the Mountain AKA Premier de cordée (1944) Louis Daquin, Irène Corday, André Le Gall, Marcel Delaître
Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust Read More »
Way Down East (1935) Henry King, Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) AKA Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 Read More »