King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
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Girls in Distress AKA Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Marcelle Chantal, Jacqueline Delubac, André Luguet
Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
The Sandpiper (1965) Vincente Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint
Twenty-something Laura Reynolds (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) is a free spirit who questions social conventions, laws, and regulations. Read More »
That Hamilton Woman (1941) Alexander Korda, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Read More »
Play Misty for Me (1971) Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
Disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) attracts the amorous attentions of a demented fan named Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter). Read More »
The Age of the Earth AKA A Idade da Terra (1980) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga
The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Read More »
Hero on the Front AKA Soldado Milhões (2018) Gonçalo Galvão Teles, Jorge Paixão da Costa, João Arrais, Miguel Borges, Raimundo Cosme
A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle Read More »
Claro (1975) Glauber Rocha, Juliet Berto, Mackay, El Cachorro
It takes place in Rome and some footage inserts from Rio de Janeiro and Bahia show the macumba Read More »
The Alienist AKA Azyllo Muito Louco (1970) Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Nildo Parente, Isabel Ribeiro, Arduíno Colassanti
Based on 19th century story “O Alienista” by great Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, the film is a free adaptation Read More »
Big Wednesday (1978) John Milius, Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey
Matt Johnson, Jack Barlow, and Leroy Smith are three young California surfers in the 1960s. Read More »
Dollars (1971) Richard Brooks, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash Read More »
The Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Norman Jewison, Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka Read More »
The Last Stagecoach West (1957) Joseph Kane, Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Victor Jory
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. Read More »
The Blood AKA O Sangue (1989) Pedro Costa, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. Read More »