In 1921, 10-year-old Othar Pruitt witnesses his bootlegger father murdered by a member of a rival bootlegger family. Read More »
Comedy
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing / Amanece, que no es poco (1989) José Luis Cuerda, José Sazatornil, Carmen de Lirio, Francisco Martínez
A village and the crazy situations encountered by its citizens. Read More »
Vivacious Lady (1938) George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
On a quick trip to the city, young university professor Peter Morgan falls in love with nightclub performer Francey Brent Read More »
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) H. Bruce Humberstone, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time Read More »
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) Goran Dukic, Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits
Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides Read More »
The Girl of Your Dreams / La niña de tus ojos (1998) Fernando Trueba, Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz
During the Spanish Civil War, a movie troupe goes from Spain to Berlin for a joint production with UFA. Read More »
Kaleidoscope (1966) Jack Smight, Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers Read More »
Don’t Touch the White Woman! AKA Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild Read More »
Black Peter AKA Cerný Petr (1964) Milos Forman, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil
Petr is 17 years old and starts work. Incredibly (for Czechoslovakia in 1963) this is as a security worker against shoplifting in a busy self-service shop. Read More »
The African AKA L’Africain (1983) Philippe de Broca, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer
A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers. Read More »