A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there. Read More »
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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) William Dieterle, Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise
In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors Read More »
Assault on the Pay Train (1962) Roberto Farias, Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória
The gang composed by small-time thieves from the slum and leaded by the criminal Tião Medonho (Eliezer Gomes) Read More »
Paper Moon (1973) Peter Bogdanovich, Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn
Set in the midwest of the depression-era, Paper Moon follows Moses Pray Read More »
The Success AKA Il successo (1963) Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Giulio is a 38-year-old intellectual stuck in a meaningless white-collar job. Read More »
12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room Read More »
Tony Manero (2008) Pablo Larraín, Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Raúl, a middle-aged, unemployed man, is obsessed by the character Tony Manero, who John Travolta plays in the film “Saturday Night Fever”. Read More »
We the Poor AKA Nosotros, los pobres (1948) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz ‘Chachita’, Carmen Montejo
Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Read More »
Isabelle Huppert: A Gypsy Life AKA Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer (2001) Serge Toubiana, Isabelle Huppert
Serge Toubiana followed Isabelle Huppert and her lifestyle for one year. Read More »
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Ronald Neame, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. Read More »
Tokyo Joe (1949) Stuart Heisler, Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe’s, and deserted his wife Trina. Read More »
The Rose King AKA Der Rosenkönig (1986) Werner Schroeter, Magdalena Montezuma, Mostefa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. Read More »
Tea and Sympathy (1956) Vincente Minnelli, Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Tom Lee is a sensitive boy of 17 whose lack of interest in the “manly” pursuits of sports Read More »
Shy People (1987) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton
New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of “family” for Cosmopolitan magazine. Read More »
No One Writes to the Colonel AKA El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999) Arturo Ripstein, Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Read More »