A view of the Olympic Games at Barcelona, using the marathon race as the weaving thread. Read More »
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Pony Express (1953) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, History, Romance, Western
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Read More »
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959) Joseph M. Newman, Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Western
Bat Masterson doesn’t look for trouble, but he doesn’t walk away from it. When an army sergeant in Hays City tries to kill Bat and dies for his trouble Read More »
Mein Name ist Bach / My Name Is Bach (2003) Dominique de Rivaz, Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel, Karoline Herfurth, Biography, Drama
Brilliant composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach completes the long journey from his home in Leipzig to Potsdam. Read More »
Poison for the Fairies (1986) Carlos Enrique Taboada, Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Fantasy, Horror
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Read More »
Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) Carlos Enrique Taboada, Marga López, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Claudia is a young girl who’s suffering from horrible and terrifying nightmares at her all girl boarding school. Read More »
Galileo (1975) Joseph Losey, Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Biography, Drama
This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Read More »
Maluala (1979) Sergio Giral, Samuel Claxton, Miguel Gutiérrez, Adolfo Llauradó, Drama
Cuba in the late 1800s: After overpowering their Spanish masters, cimarrons – runaway African slaves – hide in settlements in the eastern mountains of Cuba. Read More »
Operation Petticoat (1959) Blake Edwards, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Comedy, Romance, War
A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Read More »
Noises Off… (1992) Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Comedy
Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He’s desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. Read More »
Two Shots Fired (2014) Martín Rejtman, Manuela Martelli, Susana Pampin, Laura Paredes, Camila Fabri, Comedy, Drama
17-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and, in a thoughtless impulse, shoots himself twice. But he survives. Read More »
Nothing But the Night (1973) Peter Sasdy, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. Read More »
Apur Sansar / The World of Apu (1959) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Drama
Apu is a jobless former student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Read More »
Where Love Has Gone (1964) Edward Dmytryk, Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors, Drama
After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife’s current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. Read More »
Aurora (2014) Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Alfredo Castro, Francisca Gavilán, Luis Gnecco, Drama
Based on a real story, Sofía Olivari is a small town elementary school teacher who has been rejected twice by adoption agencies. Read More »