
Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. Read More »
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Nachts auf den Straßen / The Mistress (1952) Rudolf Jugert, Hans Albers, Hildegard Knef, Lucie Mannheim, Drama

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd. Read More »
The Producers (1967) Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Estelle Winwood, Comedy

Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. Read More »
Cztery noce z Anna / Four Nights With Anna (2008) Jerzy Skolimowski, Artur Steranko, Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A worker, Leon, is deeply in love with Anna. (None of them are really young). During night time Leon will enter an open window and merely be sitting and looking at the sleeping Anna. Read More »
Mountains of the Moon (1990) Bob Rafelson, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. Read More »
Great Expectations (1946) David Lean, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife ‘Mrs. Joe’. Read More »
Ulysses (1967) Joseph Strick, Milo O’Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, Drama

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom Read More »
Banshun / Late Spring (1949) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Drama

Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Read More »
Quo Vadis (2001) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Pawel Delag, Magdalena Mielcarz, Boguslaw Linda, Drama

Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn’t want anything to do with him. Read More »
Count Five and Die (1957) Victor Vicas, Jeffrey Hunter, Annemarie Düringer, Nigel Patrick, Drama, History, Thriller, War

American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France. Read More »