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Part-Time Work of a Female Slave (1973) Alexandra Kluge, Franz Bronski, Bion Steinborn, Drama
Roswitha is working to carry out illegal abortions, to support her husband and two children. Read More »
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Ang Lee, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity Read More »
The Death of Maria Malibran (1972) Werner Schroeter, Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Candy Darling, Musical, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
This is about the life and myths about famous opera singer Maria Malibran (1808-1836). She died on the stage. Read More »
Taxi Blues (1990) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Comedy, Drama
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Read More »
The Big Steal (1949) Don Siegel, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Crime, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Jane and Duke (alias Capt. Blake) accidently meet in Vera Cruz while chasing flim-flam man Fiske. Read More »
Fires Within (1991) Gillian Armstrong, Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D’Onofrio, Drama, Thriller
Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami. Read More »
Private Hell 36 (1954) Don Siegel, Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
Hitting a New High (1937) Raoul Walsh, Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, John Howard, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lili Pons and Jack Oakie star as a nightclub singer with aspires to be an opera diva and the met star whom she chases all the way to a safari in Africa Read More »
The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) Lloyd Bacon, Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Western
Joan Britton, improbably gorgeous frontier horse dealer, and the much less scrupulous Stephen Cook are friendly competitors supplying horses to the Union Army in Wyoming Territory during the Civil War. Read More »
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Drama
This mostly unrelated sequel to Cat People (1942) has Amy, the young daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed. Read More »
Wild in the Streets (1968) Barry Shear, Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi, Comedy, Drama, Music
Wealthy twenty-two year old Max Frost – born Max Jacob Flatow, Jr. – is a rock music superstar, he a rock music franchise unto himself. Read More »
Peking Express (1951) William Dieterle, Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn, Action, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws. Read More »
Yuke yuke nidome no shojo / Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) Kôji Wakamatsu, Michio Akiyama, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Mimi Kozakura, Drama
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. Read More »