In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. Read More »
Crime
The Assignment (1997) Christian Duguay, Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
1986. In his civilian clothes while on shore leave in Jerusalem, Lieutenant Commander Annibal Ramirez of the US Navy Read More »
Karate Warriors (1976) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Shin’ichi Chiba, Isao Natsuyagi, Akiko Koyama
Chico arrives in a city where there are two waring gangs. Read More »
Lulu (1962) Rolf Thiele, Nadja Tiller, O.E. Hasse, Hildegard Knef
A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor’s pocket. Read More »
The Moon God (1988) Jonas Cornell, Tomas Laustiola, Agneta Ekmanner, Per Myrberg
A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. Read More »
The Phantom Thief (1946) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. Read More »
For Them That Trespass (1949) Alberto Cavalcanti, Stephen Murray, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. Read More »
The Man in White (2003) Takashi Miike, Masaya Sato, Shôko Aida, Naomi Akimoto
A member of a Yakuza gang exacts revenge on the people responsible for the death of his boss. Read More »
A Double Life (1947) George Cukor, Ronald Colman, Edmond O’Brien, Signe Hasso
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. Read More »
Q – The Winged Serpent (1982) Larry Cohen, David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark
New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York Read More »