An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France Read More »
Crime
Murder by Contract (1958) Irving Lerner, Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi
Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law and no chance of making any real money. Read More »
The Public Eye (1992) Howard Franklin, Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Richard Riehle
Leon Bernstein is New York’s best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops or crooks. Read More »
Woman in the Dark (1934) Phil Rosen, Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Melvyn Douglas
A paroled prisoner hits a man attacking a woman. Read More »
Our Lady of the Assassins AKA La virgen de los sicarios (2000) Barbet Schroeder, Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin Read More »
A Strange Adventure (1956) William Witney, Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder Read More »
Young Boss Takeshi AKA Waka oyabun (1965) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Yukiji Asaoka, Shiho Fujimura
This is the story of Takeshi Nanjo, the young boss of Nanjyo family in the meiji-era of Japan. Read More »
Murder by the Book (1987) Mel Damski, Robert Hays, Catherine Mary Stewart, Christopher Murney
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation Read More »
Harbor of Missing Men (1950) R.G. Springsteen, Richard Denning, Barbra Fuller, Steven Geray
A fishing-boat owner, Jim “Brooklyn” Gannon, cuts a deal with a gangster syndicate to deliver a load of contraband firearms. Read More »
Madame Satã (2002) Karim Aïnouz, Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). Read More »