A World War II British officer named Charles Coward, having been captured by the Germans Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2021
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 »
The Woman Racket (1930) Albert H. Kelley, Robert Ober, Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet, Sally Starr
During a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Read More »
Clash by Night (1964) Montgomery Tully, Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler
A bus carrying prisoners on their way to jail, is hijacked by a gang, who want to free one of the passengers. Read More »
La machine (1977) Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Mélinand
Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. Read More »
Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980) Rudolf Thome, Hanns Zischler, Sabine Bach, Wolfgang Kinder
An architect falls in love with a student who engages actively against Read More »
Eye of the Storm AKA L’oeil du cyclone (2015) Sekou Traoré, Maimouna N’Diaye, Fargass Assandé, Abidine Dioari
In a nameless, African country riven with civil war, a young female lawyer is the court-appointed counsel for a rebel leader. Read More »
Scarlet Innocence AKA Madam Ppang-Deok (2014) Pil-sung Yim, Woo-sung Jung, Esom, So-young Park
Hak-kyu (Jung) is a university professor who’s gradually losing his eyesight. Read More »