Magical realism, epilepsy, and the steppes of Mongolia. A pilot dies. His son Bagi, who, like his father, has epilepsy Read More »
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The Flame of New Orleans (1941) René Clair, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young
French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker Read More »
Black Gold (1947) Phil Karlson, Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille, ‘Ducky’ Louie
In the early 1920s, in the desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Charley Eagle (Anthony Quinn), is Indian who owns a small Read More »
Girl with Green Eyes (1964) Desmond Davis, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave
An awkward young Irish farm girl Kate Brady moves to Dublin and shares a room with funny Read More »
Child of Divorce (1946) Richard Fleischer, Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Madge Meredith
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce Read More »
Anton Chekhov’s The Duel (2010) Dover Koshashvili, Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies
In ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life Read More »
Two People (1945) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Georg Rydeberg, Wanda Rothgardt, Gabriel Alw
When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell ends the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
The Law Is the Law (1958) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Totò, René Génin
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. Read More »
Out of Season (2004) Jevon O’Neill, Dennis Hopper, Gina Gershon, Jordan Frieda
It is out of season and the temporary employee Pierre of an amusement park seaside has all his savings stolen by the crook Simeon Guant Read More »
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) Yves Simoneau, Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg
In the 1880s, after the U. S. Army’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the government continues to push Sioux Indians off their land. Read More »
The Oak (1992) Lucian Pintilie, Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc
A description of Romania before Ceausescu’s downfall, through the story of Nela. Read More »
The White Sheik (1952) Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo
Moments after the newlywed couple of the fastidious office employee Ivan and his young and pure wife Wanda Read More »
Under the Sun of Rome (1948) Renato Castellani, Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini, Francesco Golisano
The film starts with the narrator stating that “this is a true story.” Ciro, a young man living in Rome during WWII Read More »
Far (2001) André Téchiné, Stéphane Rideau, Lubna Azabal, Mohamed Hamaidi
Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco and Europe. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. Read More »