
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. Read More »
Daily Archives: May 25, 2020
Shadow Kill / Nizhalkkuthu (2002) Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Sukumari, Reeja

Kaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess. Read More »
Strange Gardens AKA Effroyables Jardins (2003) Jean Becker, Jacques Villeret, André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte

France under occupation by the Germans during WW2: Two men inspired by a free France radio broadcast perpetrate Read More »
State Penitentiary (1950) Lew Landers, Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth

Roger Manners (Warner Baxter), a former aircraft manufacturer is wrongly accused Read More »
Code Name: Tiger AKA Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche (1964) Claude Chabrol, Roger Hanin, Maria Mauban, Daniela Bianchi

A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Read More »
Doll AKA Papusza (2013) Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, Jowita Budnik, Zbigniew Walerys, Antoni Pawlicki

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs Read More »
Hanna K. (1983) Costa-Gavras, Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne

Hanna Kaufman is a Jewish-American, who moved to Israel and now works as a defense lawyer there. Read More »
Tango argentino (1992) Goran Paskaljevic, Mija Aleksic, Predrag Manojlovic, Nikola Zarkovic

Nikola is an ten-year-old boy who enjoys relating with the old people that his mother shops for and cleans up for. Read More »
Blonde from Brooklyn (1945) Del Lord, Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, Thurston Hall

In Blonde from Brooklyn, Bob Haymes (credited as Robert Stanton) plays ex-G.I. Dixon Harper Read More »
Girls in Uniform AKA Mädchen in Uniform (1958) Géza von Radványi, Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse

After the death of her parents young girl Manuela von Meinhardis is sent to a boarding school where Prussian drill rules the education. Read More »