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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Drama

Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drowned. 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 »
Red Velvet (2008) Bruce Dickson, Henry Thomas, Kelli Garner, Forrest J. Ackerman, Horror

A chance encounter at a laundromat between a young man and young woman turns into an afternoon lunch date. Read More »
Blackout (1988) Doug Adams, Gail O’Grady, Carol Lynley, Michael Keys Hall, Drama, Thriller

Caroline Boyle returns to her childhood home in Northern California, drawn there by a cryptic letter from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Read More »
Hanna Amon (1951) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Lutz Moik, Ilse Steppat, Drama

Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. Read More »
Secret Ceremony (1968) Joseph Losey, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Drama, Thriller

Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. 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 »
The Nurses Secret (1941) Noel M. Smith, Lee Patrick, Regis Toomey, Julie Bishop, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Murder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. Read More »