The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
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In July (2000) Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus
Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Read More »
Whispering Pages (1994) Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksandr Cherednik, Sergey Barkovskiy, Elizaveta Koroleva
The existential protagonist is a hungry, homeless, socially isolated, and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century. Read More »
The Helen Morgan Story (1957) Michael Curtiz, Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson
The 1920’s and 30’s career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival Read More »
Attila (1954) Pietro Francisci, Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal
The king of the Huns, whose hordes from various tribes and allies have been sweeping the Asian steppes and both Roman empires, dies, leaving the throne to two sons. Read More »
Hostile Waters (1997) David Drury, Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Thriller
The True story of how an antiquated Soviet Project 667a “Yankee” Class Submarine Read More »
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) Lev Kuleshov, Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Comedy
The movie chronicles the experiences of an American,”Mr. West,” along with his loyal bodyguard and slave Jeddie, as they see the territory of the dreadful, evil Bolsheviks. Read More »
Female Agents (2008) Jean-Paul Salomé, Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Drama, War
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Read More »
House Of Fools (2002) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Drama, Music, Romance, War
A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. Read More »
Parade of the Planets (1984) Vadim Abdrashitov, Oleg Borisov, Sergey Shakurov, Sergey Nikonenko, Drama, Fantasy
In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. Read More »
Son of Sinbad (1955) Ted Tetzlaff, Dale Robertson, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. Read More »
The Go-Between (1971) Joseph Losey, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Drama, Romance
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo turns 13. He’s the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Read More »
There Will Be No Leave Today (1958) Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, Drama, Thriller
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village. Read More »
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (1987) Alla Surikova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph. Read More »
Joy of Fatherhood / Vaterfreuden (2014) Matthias Schweighöfer, Torsten Künstler, Isabell Polak, Friedrich Mücke, Comedy, Romance
Felix enjoys his single life to the fullest and is happy without a family and kids until his annoying brother Henne moves in with him, bringing along his honey-obsessed pet ferret Karsten. Read More »