
It’s oil boom time in Oklahoma and Lena Doyle, a hard-bitten, cyncial feminist has a fight on her hands: the big oil companies don’t like the fact that she’s working a potentially profitable wildcat rig. Read More »
Comedy
Jewel Robbery (1932) William Dieterle, William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Comedy, Crime, Romance

When a baroness is present during a robbery at a jewellers in Vienna, she finds the gang’s debonair leader more attractive than either her husband or her lover.
Read More »
Yotamono to komachimusume / Lumberjack and Lady (1935) Hiromasa Nomura, Shozaburo Abe, Akio Isono, Sôjin Kamiyama, Comedy

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles to the full. Read More »
Cebo para una adolescente / Forbidden Passion (1974) Francisco Lara Polop, Ornella Muti, Philippe Leroy, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship… Read More »
Go Kart Go (1964) Jan Darnley-Smith, Dennis Waterman, Jimmy Capehorn, Frazer Hines, Comedy, Family

Jimpy (Dennis Waterman) leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no mattter how underhanded their tactics are. Read More »
The Love Parade (1929) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Queen Louise’s cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Read More »
Kaette kita yopparai / Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968) Nagisa Ôshima, Kazuhiko Kato, Osamu Kitayama, Norihiko Hashida, Action, Comedy

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story. Read More »
El abrazo partido / Lost Embrace (2004) Daniel Burman, Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge D’Elía, Comedy

In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture Read More »
Reg’lar Fellers (1941) Arthur Dreifuss, Billy Lee, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Buddy Boles, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the “Reg’lar Fellers”, and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine Read More »
Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo / Key of Life (2012) Kenji Uchida, Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Comedy, Crime, Romance

Unemployed 35 year old Sakurai aspired to become an actor, but failed miserably. He decides to end his own life, but first he goes to purify himself at a public bathhouse. Read More »