
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the “cafajestes”). Read More »
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Abolition / Abolição (1988) Zózimo Bulbul, Camila Amado, Benedita da Silva, Abdias do Nascimento

A documentary, mostly in color, but with historical photography and pictures in black and white. Read More »
Play Me a Love Song / Pjevajte nesto ljubavno (2007) Goran Kulenovic, Ivan Herceg, Ivan Djuricic, Ivan Glowatzky

The main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band Read More »
The Killing of John Lennon (2006) Andrew Piddington, Jonas Ball, Mie Omori, Krisha Fairchild

The film follows the travels and accounts of Mark Chapman (Jonas Ball) and gives the watcher an insight into his mind. Read More »
The Man from Laramie (1955) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp

Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado Read More »
Holiday in Mexico (1946) George Sidney, Walter Pidgeon, Ilona Massey, José Iturbi

The U.S. Ambassador’s (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather. Read More »
Flammes (1978) Adolfo Arrieta, Caroline Loeb, Xavier Grandès, Dionys Mascolo

Barbara, a young girl, lives in an old country house with her father and her teacher. Read More »
She’s Back (1989) Tim Kincaid, Carrie Fisher, Robert Joy, Matthew Cowles

Paul is a meek electrician who, with his nagging, dominating wife Beatrice Read More »
Lady by Choice (1934) David Burton, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor

Fan dancer Alabam Lee is convicted of breaching the morals code with her racy shows. Read More »
Illicit (1931) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez

Ann, a young lady of scandalously “advanced” ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick Read More »