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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Kiss the Girls (1997) Gary Fleder, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. Read More »
Staroye i novoye / The General Line (1929) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Drama

The horseless Marfa Lapkina, together with the local agronomist and other poor peasants, organizes a dairy farm in the village. Read More »
Brubaker (1980) Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Crime, Drama

When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. Read More »
The Young One / La Joven (1960) Luis Buñuel, Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Drama

Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an naive young girl to whom Miller is attracted. Read More »
Lamerica (1994) Gianni Amelio, Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Drama

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. Read More »
The Haunted Palace (1963) Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Horror

Loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s novel THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD, this fright flick opens with a warlock placing a curse on a group of villagers about to burn him at the stake. Read More »
Heres to the girls (1949) Keisuke Kinoshita, Shûji Sano, Setsuko Hara, Sugisaku Aoyama, Comedy, Romance

Keizo Ishizu (Shuji Sano), owner of a car shop in Tokyo, meets Yasuko Ikeda (Setsuko Hara), the daughter of a former aristocratic family, on a matchmaking date arranged by Mr. Sato (Takeshi Sakamoto), a regular customer. Read More »
Ensayo de un crimen / The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) Luis Buñuel, Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo, Comedy, Crime, Drama

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it – but not everything goes according to plan… Read More »
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) Robert Wise, James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally, Drama, Romance, Western

Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Read More »