The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. Read More »
Comedy
Girl’s Apartment / L’appartement des filles (1963) Michel Deville, Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert
A charming gold smuggler tries to recruit equally charming air hostesses to transport gold bars to Bombay. Read More »
Mr. Saturday Night (1992) Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner
Buddy Young was the comic’s comic, beloved by everyone. Read More »
H.O.T.S. (1979) Gerald Seth Sindell, Susan Kiger, Lisa London, Pamela Jean Bryant
College exploitation film focusing on the wild escapades of the women of H.O.T.S. Sorority. Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »
High Season for Spies AKA Comando de asesinos (1966) Julio Coll, Antonio Vilar, Letícia Román, Peter van Eyck
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. Read More »
The Oracle (1953) C.M. Pennington-Richards, Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna
An Irish “oracle” foretells the next day’s track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar. Read More »
Policarpo AKA Policarpo ‘ufficiale di scrittura’ (1959) Mario Soldati, Renato Rascel, Carla Gravina, Romolo Valli
The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works Read More »
Hooper (1978) Hal Needham, Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field
Aging stuntman Sonney Hooper is still on top as one of the best stuntmen in the business. Read More »
The Comedy (2012) Rick Alverson, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father’s estate, a restless Read More »