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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Poil de carotte (1973) Henri Graziani, Philippe Noiret, Monique Chaumette, Isabelle Ceaux

In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide. Based on the classic by Jules Renard. Read More »
Guard! Alert! (1937) Jean Grémillon

A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born. Read More »
Le bonheur / Happiness (1935) Marcel L’Herbier

Released in English-speaking countries as Happiness, Le Bonheur was based on a play by Henry Bernstein. Read More »
Desperate Women (1978) Earl Bellamy

Three unjustly convicted female prisoners are being transported to prison. Read More »
Étoile / Ballet (1989) Peter Del Monte

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school Read More »
Luxurious Bone (2001) Isao Yukisada

Two young women and a sex date who turns out to be an alright guy. Read More »
A Young Woman Named Xiao Yu (1995) Sylvia Chang

A Taiwanese comedy set in Lower Manhattan which chronicles the travails of two Taiwanese illegal aliens as they try to get a green card. Read More »
The Great Impersonation (1935) Alan Crosland, Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels

Baron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey Read More »
The Miniver Story (1950) H.C. Potter, Victor Saville, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together Read More »