After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2021
The Decameron AKA Il Decameron (1971) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples Read More »
Rape Shot Momoes Lips AKA Rape shot: Momoe no kuchibiru (1979) Katsuhiko Fujii, Minako Mizushima, Yûko Asuka, Noriaki Abe
Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Demented AKA Le dernier des fous (2006) Laurent Achard, Julien Cochelin, Annie Cordy, Pascal Cervo
Young Martin watches the quirky, extraordinary events that occur in and around the family home and barn from a distance. Read More »
Back to Back, Face to Face AKA Bei kao bei, lian dui lian (1994) Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang, Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. Read More »
King of Burlesque (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. Read More »
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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »