Three men want to win a foot race around Rome. Caesar, a penniless young carpenter, aims to exceed one hundred kilometers. Read More »
Comedy
Justice, My Foot! / Sam sei goon (1992) Johnnie To, Stephen Chow, Anita Mui, Man-Tat Ng
Stephen Chow’s special brand of very modern, very Hong Kong screwball comedy Read More »
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959) César Fernández Ardavín, Marco Paoletti, Juanjo Menéndez, Carlos Casaravilla
An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo Read More »
Navy Blues (1941) Lloyd Bacon, Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets Read More »
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999) Anne Fontaine
Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time Read More »
The Go-Getter (2007) Martin Hynes, Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward
In Eugene, Oregon, Mercer, 19, wants to tell his wayward half-brother, 18 years older than he Read More »
Haunted Karaoke / Maang gwai jut laai ok (1997) Billy Hin-Shing Tang, Michael Tao, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Monica Chan
When cops Jor (Dao), Chicken Wing (Lai) and Linda (Yuen) are out on a bust, they chase a triad member Read More »
Spiritually a Cop / Bok geuk cha lou (1991) Wai Shum, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Fong Lui, Hoi Mang
Fall In (1942) Kurt Neumann, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Robert Barrat
Captain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant “Dodo” Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory Read More »
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) Leo McCarey, Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak
At the start of WWII, Katie O’Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Read More »