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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) Don Hartman, Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Franchot Tone

Sales clerk Anabel Sims believes Every Girl Should be Married. And she has the target Read More »
Bomba (2013) Sergio Bizzio, Alan Daicz, Jorge Marrale, Pablo Cedrón

A teenager climbs into a taxi and discovers that it is a car bomb. Read More »
The Golden Madonna (1949) Luigi Carpentieri, Ladislao Vajda, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, Tullio Carminati

Patricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be extremely lucky. Read More »
That World and Mine / Êsse Mundo é Meu (1964) Sérgio Ricardo, Antonio Pitanga, Léa Bulcão

The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker. Read More »
Terror of the Steppes / I predoni della steppa (1964) Tanio Boccia, Kirk Morris, Moira Orfei, Daniele Vargas

A sword and sandal extravaganza in which a musclebound hero conquers all. Read More »
Under the Sun of Satan / Sous le Soleil de Satan (1987) Maurice Pialat, Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire

Dossignan is a very zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. Read More »
Walking the Streets of Moscow / Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) Georgiy Daneliya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh

Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Read More »
Honkytonk Man (1982) Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire

As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home Read More »
Monarch (1979) Johannes Flütsch, Manfred Stelzer, Diethard Wendtland, Ilse Bahrs, Paul Gauselmann

The film takes a look at a professional gambler Read More »