In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson’s platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) Joan Chen, Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 Read More »
The Buddy System (1984) Glenn Jordan, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy’s attempt to fake a residential address Read More »
Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »
Jill Rips (2000) Anthony Hickox, Dolph Lundgren, Danielle Brett, Richard Fitzpatrick
Matt Sorenson (Dolph Lundgren), a former boxer and San Francisco cop Read More »
The Tomb (1986) Fred Olen Ray, Cameron Mitchell, John Carradine, Sybil Danning
A tomb robber steals artifacts from an unmarked tomb in Egypt and sells them to different archeologists in America. Read More »
The Walking Hills (1949) John Sturges, Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, William Bishop
A long-lost gold treasure, believed buried in the sand dunes of the fabulous Walking Hills Read More »
The Cabinet of Caligari (1962) Roger Kay, Glynis Johns, Dan O’Herlihy, Richard Davalos
Jane’s car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari. Read More »
The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) Phil Brown, Will Jason, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Dandridge
Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous “Harlem Globetrotters”, an all-Negro professional basketball team Read More »
Human Remains (1998) Jay Rosenblatt, Eva Braun, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler
We see a gravedigger’s shovel at work. Then, we watch archival footage that, for the most part Read More »
Reflections of Murder (1974) John Badham, Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy’s school plot and carry out his murder. Read More »
Crack-Up (1946) Irving Reis, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte
Based on the story “See How They Run,” which ran in the June 1951 issue of “The Ladies’ Home Journal” Read More »
A Face of War (1968) Eugene S. Jones, Michael Mileham
A Face of War is a 1968 documentary about the Vietnam War, by Eugene S. Jones. Read More »
Hide and Seek (2014) Joanna Coates, Josh O’Connor, Hannah Arterton, Rea Mole
Four fragile young people flee London to start an unconventional utopia, creating a world of fantasy that overwhelms them. Read More »