
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff Read More »
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Time of the Hunt AKA Le temps d’une chasse (1972) Francis Mankiewicz, Guy L’Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne

Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Read More »
Zulu Dawn (1979) Douglas Hickox, Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott

In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. Read More »
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) Ken Burns, Jack Johnson, Keith David, Samuel L. Jackson

The story of Jack Johnson is huge. The first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908 to 1915, he was rowdy, smart, rebellious, and proud. Read More »
The Wooden Camera (2003) Ntshaveni Wa Luruli, Junior Singo, Dana de Agrella, Innocent Msimango

Kayelitsha, South-Africa, today. 2003 A township, close to Cape-town, after the end of Apartheid. Read More »
Bombay (1995) Mani Ratnam, Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Nassar

Based on true incidents, a south Indian Hindu man falls in love with a Muslim woman–taboo in the small village from which they hail. Read More »
Our Song (2000) Jim McKay, Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa Martinez

Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female Read More »
Unhook the Stars (1996) Nick Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu

Mildred is a widow who discovers a whole new world when her grown children move away. Read More »
Slattery’s Hurricane (1949) André De Toth, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. Read More »
Springtime in the Rockies (1942) Irving Cummings, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, John Payne

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy’s womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner Read More »