Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold. Read More »
Daily Archives: March 13, 2021
The Password Is Courage (1962) Andrew L. Stone, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch
A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans Read More »
Kingdom of Jirocho AKA Jirochô sangokushi daiichibu (1963) Masahiro Makino, Kôji Tsuruta, Yoshiko Sakuma, Shingo Yamashiro
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings Read More »
Rocco and His Brothers AKA Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) Luchino Visconti, Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. Read More »
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults Read More »
Prison Warden (1949) Seymour Friedman, Warner Baxter, Anna Lee, Harlan Warde
Victor Burnell (Warner Baxter) is a public health official who is appointed warden Read More »
Too Many Winners (1947) William Beaudine, Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn
Michael Shayne accepts an assignment to investigate a gang of pari-mutual race tickets Read More »
Another Lonely Hitman AKA Shin kanashiki hittoman (1995) Rokuro Mochizuki, Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Asami Sawaki
Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. Read More »
Mayor (2020) David Osit, Musa Hadid
MAYOR is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. Read More »
The Fire Within AKA Onibi (1997) Rokuro Mochizuki, Yoshio Harada, Reiko Kataoka, Show Aikawa
A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him. Read More »