Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 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 »
Black Boots, Leather Whip / Botas negras, látigo de cuero (1983) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Asunción Calero
Al Pereira, a type of dubious morality, is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man Read More »
Diane (2018) Kent Jones, Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Estelle Parsons
Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. Read More »