The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear Read More »
Adventure
La grande vadrouille (1966) Gérard Oury, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook
A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. Read More »
Agora (2009) Alejandro Amenábar, Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac
Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Read More »
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / La rivière du hibou (1961) Robert Enrico, Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away Read More »
World Without End (1956) Edward Bernds, Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh
Four astronauts returning from mankind’s first mission to Mars enter a time warp Read More »
A Touch of Zen / Xia nü (1971) King Hu, Feng Hsu, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort, reputed to be haunted. Read More »
Suleiman the Conqueror / Solimano il conquistatore (1961) Vatroslav Mimica, Mario Tota, Edmund Purdom, Giorgia Moll, Alberto Farnese
Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman’s attempts to conquer Vienna. Read More »
Devil Goddess (1955) Spencer Gordon Bennet, Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Stevens, Selmer Jackson
Johnny Weissmuller guides Professor Blakely and his daughter Nora into forbidden Kirundi land Read More »
The Texas Rangers (1936) King Vidor, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker
Jim Hawkins and Wahoo Jones are stagecoach robbers who head to Texas to find Sam McGee, their partner. Read More »
The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
“If they move, kill ’em!” Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history Read More »