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Daily Archives: June 29, 2022
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974) Jeremy Kagan, Khigh Dhiegh, Mako, Soon-Tek Oh

China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial centre Judge Dee Read More »
Edison, the Man (1940) Clarence Brown, Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman

Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman Read More »
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939) Ricardo Cortez, Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau

During the Depression, New York City store clerk Joe Riley saves money and buys a piece of land in Arizona. Read More »
The End of the Day / La fin du jour (1939) Julien Duvivier, Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people’s home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. Read More »
The Seven Deadly Sins / Les sept péchés capitaux (1952) Yves Allégret, Claude Autant-Lara, Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Jean Debucourt

A French/Italian co-production with two episodes from Italy and five from France covering the seven deadly sins Read More »
Djomeh (2000) Hassan Yektapanah, Jalil Nazari, Rashid Akbari, Mahmoud Behraznia

Djomeh is a young Afghan man who has come to live in Iran because of family trouble. Read More »
Mrs. Miniver (1942) William Wyler, Greer Garson

The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. Read More »
Coweb / Zhang wu shuang (2009) Xin Xin Xiong, Luxia Jiang, Sam Lee, Siu-Fai Cheung

A martial arts instructor is recruited as a bodyguard for an extremely powerful couple. Read More »
The Hopeless Ones / Umutsuzlar (1971) Yilmaz Güney, Filiz Akin, Refik Kemal Arduman

Firat, his mother and his younger sister grew up in poverty while his father died in prison. Read More »