
In 1939, Germany’s Hamburg-America Line announced a voyage from Germany to Cuba. Read More »
Daily Archives: March 5, 2021
I Confess (1953) Alfred Hitchcock, Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden

Otto Keller and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Québec City, Québec.  Read More »
Chaos / Heya fawda (2007) Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif

Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer Read More »
Letter from an Unknown Woman / Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004) Jinglei Xu, Jue Huang, Wen Jiang, Huang Jiao

Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. Read More »
A Year Without Love / Un año sin amor (2005) Anahí Berneri, Juan Minujín, Mimí Ardú, Carlos Echevarría

Pablo (Juan Minujín) is a young writer who is dying of AIDS. Lonely and poor, he shares an apartment with an aunt (Mimí Ardú) Read More »
North Dallas Forty (1979) Ted Kotcheff, Nick Nolte, Charles Durning, Mac Davis

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Read More »
Follow the Star / Da sha xing yu xiao mei tou (1978) John Woo, Roy Chiao, Chi-Shen Chung, Rowena Cortes

Miss Chen (Rowena Cortes) is a rich pop singer, her father (John Woo) is a former criminal. Read More »
Hoffmaniada (2018) Stanislav Sokolov, Anna Artamonova, Natalya Fisson, Vladimir Koshevoy

Based around three of Hoffmann’s tales; Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman Read More »
The Day My Parents Ran Away (1993) Martin Nicholson, Matt Frewer, Robert Jayne, Brigid Brannagh

At one time or another, most teenagers have fantasized about being rid of their parents Read More »
The Dragon Tamers / Nu zi tai quan qun ying hui (1975) John Woo, James Tien, Carter Wong, Chang-suk Kim

A young Chinese martial arts student travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Read More »