After upsetting the criminal underground in ‘the Master Blackmailer’ case, Sherlock Holmes has to face his archenemy: Prof. Moriarty. Read More »
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: King of Blackmailers AKA Korol shantazha (1980) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Holmes and Watson return from Manor House to London by train and discuss the newly discovered crime Read More »
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Bloody Inscription AKA Krovavaya nadpis (1980) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
When a murder happens with a bloody inscription and a ring left behind, puzzled Scotland Yard detectives go to Sherlock Holmes for help. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Acquaintance AKA Znakomstvo (1980) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
In the late 19th century, retired military doctor is looking for rental housing in London and finds it at 221B Baker Street. Read More »
Max Havelaar (1976) Fons Rademakers, Peter Faber, Sacha Bulthuis, Adendu Soesilaningrat
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes Read More »
Caught in the Draft (1941) David Butler, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman
Don Bolton is a movie star who can’t stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married…but falls for a colonel’s daughter. Read More »
Brief Encounters AKA Korotkie vstrechi (1967) Kira Muratova, Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy
Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya’s apartment. Read More »
Ruslan and Ludmila AKA Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) Aleksandr Ptushko, Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov
Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. Read More »
Rasputin AKA Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad AKA Sadko (1953) Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergey Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Ninel Myshkova
An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people Read More »
Mother AKA Mat (1990) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution. Read More »
Vasilisa the Beautiful AKA Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1940) Aleksandr Rou, Georgiy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Lev Potyomkin
Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Read More »
The Banishment AKA Izgnanie (2007) Andrey Zvyagintsev, Konstantin Lavronenko, Maria Bonnevie, Aleksandr Baluev
A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Read More »
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) H. Bruce Humberstone, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time Read More »
The African AKA L’Africain (1983) Philippe de Broca, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer
A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers. Read More »