
A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2020
The Dove’s Lost Necklace AKA Le collier perdu de la colombe (1991) Nacer Khemir, Navin Chowdhry, Walid Arakji, Ninar Esber

The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Read More »
Tough Beauty and the Sloppy Slop AKA No hoi wai lung (1995) Bun Yuen, Biao Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Monsour Del Rosario

Three high-octane cops–an unorthodox one from Hong Kong, a straitlaced one from the Mainland Read More »
The Suitors (1988) Ghasem Ebrahimian, Pouran Esrafily, Ali Azizian, Shahab Navab

Iranian businessman Haji returns to Manhattan with his new bride, Mariyam. Read More »
Gore Orphanage (2015) Emily Lapisardi, Maria Olsen, Bill Townsend, Emma Smith

When 9 year old Nellie’s entire family dies, she is taken to Gore Orphanage. Read More »
Forever (2006) Heddy Honigmann, Yoshino Kimura, Bertrand Beyern, Camille Solari

Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Read More »
The Fever (2004) Carlo Gabriel Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Cameron D’Angelo, Kiera D’Angelo

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events. Read More »
White Banners (1938) Edmund Goulding, Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Read More »
All the Souls… Except the Dead AKA Tutti defunti… tranne i morti (1977) Pupi Avati, Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, Carlo Delle Piane

Dante must sell books on the legends related to the noble families of Emilia-Romagna to the descendants of the families themselves. Read More »
The Cool World (1963) Shirley Clarke, Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke (“The Connection”) directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto Read More »