
After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior UK forces during the Easter Rising Read More »
Biography
Napoléon (1955) Sacha Guitry, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Napoléon Bonaparte’s life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand Read More »
Hôtel Terminus (1988) Marcel Ophüls, Klaus Barbie

This full-length documentary deals with the life, career and trial of Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, known as the Butcher of Lyons. Read More »
My Gal Sal (1942) Irving Cummings, Rita Hayworth

Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer Read More »
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Alan Rudolph

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit Read More »
Close-Up / Nema-ye nazdik (1990) Abbas Kiarostami

The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read More »
The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch, Anthony Hopkins

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Read More »
Tom and Viv (1994) Brian Gilbert, Willem Dafoe

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological Read More »
Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (1989) Paulo Rocha

In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does Read More »
Rasputin / Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko

Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »