This movie is the sequel to “God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun” (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the “Blond Devil”), last of the Cangaceiros. Read More »
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Bullet in the Head (1990) John Woo, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
In 1967, on the way to the wedding of a friend a young man is accosted by a local gang member. Read More »
Razor Eaters (2003) Shannon Young, Paul Moder, Richard Cawthorne, Teague Rook, Crime, Horror, Thriller
RAZOR EATERS is your front-row ticket to an anarchistic rampage of violence, death and destruction. Read More »
Night Must Fall (1937) Richard Thorpe, Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Crotchety old Mrs. Bransom hires a charming young man named Danny as a live-in companion. Read More »
One Hamlet Less (1973) Carmelo Bene, Luciana Cante, Sergio Di Giulio, Drama
Bene’s version of Hamlet celebrates the power and beauty of Shakespeare’s theatricality, while attempting to strip the piece of the morbid piety that has come to cling to it over the centuries. Read More »
The American Success Company (1980) William Richert, Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Comedy, Drama
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process. Read More »
Our Lady of the Turks (1968) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Drama
Avant Garde piece from Carmelo Bene. A series of vignettes drive a whirl of sounds, images and poetry – is it horror, is it comedy, make your own mind up. Read More »
Queen Bee (1955) Ranald MacDougall, Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, Drama, Romance
Eva Phillips is a Southern socialite whose manipulation and ruthlessness ruins the lives of everyone around her. The question is, will anyone be able to stop her? Read More »
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) Melvin Frank, Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Comedy
The story of Mel and Edna (Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Read More »
Railroad Man (1999) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ohtake, Ryôko Hirosue, Drama
A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. Read More »