
The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith’s son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. Read More »
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In flagranti (1944) Hans Schweikart, Ferdinand Marian, Margot Hielscher, Oskar Sima, Comedy, Crime

A rookie detective’s first case is to observe an engineer, but she behaves so clumsily in her job, that she’s mistaken for a thief and con artist. Read More »
I Deal in Danger (1966) Walter Grauman, Robert Goulet, Christine Carère, Donald Harron, War, Drama

During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting propaganda to the West. Read More »
Exponerad / Exposed / The Depraved (1971) Gustav Wiklund, Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Björn Adelly, Drama, Thriller, Erotic

Lena is alone in the city when her parents are on vacation. She’s torn between her innocent boyfriend and the older, more experienced, and sadistic sociopath Helge. Read More »
Ru lai shen zhang / Buddha’s Palm (1982) Taylor Wong, Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu, Kara Hui, Action, Fantasy

The Buddha’s Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Read More »
Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki / Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) Teruo Ishii, Tetsurô Tamba, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Action, Drama, Thriller, Erotic

Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii directs this deranged, over-the-top adaptation from the original manga by Kazuo Koike about a privileged samurai gang in charge of recruiting women for prostitution in old Edo’s pleasure quarter. Read More »
Apache Rifles (1964) William Witney, Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, Western

In the Arizona Territory in 1879, Captain Jeff Stanton takes command of a cavalry unit tasked with returning the Apaches to their reservation. Read More »
Mannen från Mallorca / Man from Majorca (1984) Bo Widerberg, Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Håkan Serner, Action, Crime, Thriller

In Stockholm, on St. Lucy’s feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Read More »
A Touch of Love / Thank You All Very Much (1969) Waris Hussein, Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron, Drama

Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young ‘bookish’ girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. Read More »
No Highway In The Sky (1951) Henry Koster, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Drama, Thriller

Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. Read More »