
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. Read More »
Daily Archives: October 7, 2021
The Night Club Lady (1932) Irving Cummings, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher

Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolph Menjou) sets out to discover who murdered Read More »
Black Zoo (1963) Robert Gordon, Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren

The owner of a small zoo uses the animals to kill his enemies. Read More »
The Puppeteer / Dom Roberto (1962) Ernesto de Sousa, Raul Solnado, Glicínia Quartin, Luís Cerqueira

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity – what coins the people of Lisbon’s Read More »
Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô

A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y chocolate (1993) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío, Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra

Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist Read More »
The Moon and the Stars (2007) John Irvin, Jonathan Pryce, Alfred Molina, Catherine McCormack

Together in Rome to shoot a film, a German actress (McCormack) Read More »