
Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2019
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) Jean Renoir, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield

Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. Read More »
Deathquake (1980) Kenjirô Ohmori, Hiroshi Katsuno, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yumi Takigawa

Seizmologist Hoichi loses touch with his family when he predicts that there will be an earthquake in Tokyo Read More »
Sallah (1964) Ephraim Kishon, Topol, Geula Nuni, Gila Almagor

The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history is about new immigrants Sallah and his family Read More »
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) John Cromwell, Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon

Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. Read More »
Primrose Path (1940) Gregory La Cava, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother Read More »
Reds (1981) Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann

American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. Read More »
Sunflower (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband Read More »
Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. Read More »
Mascara (1987) Patrick Conrad, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Sarrazin, Derek de Lint

A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a fervent opera lover Read More »