The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan.
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Crime
For a Cops Hide (1981) Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Anne Parillaud
In Paris, the ex-cop Choucas is a private detective that works with a mysterious partner, Tarpon, and the secretary Charlotte. Read More »
Lisboa (1999) Antonio Hernández, Sergi López, Carmen Maura, Federico Luppi
Joao (Sergi López), a traveling salesman working a route between Spain and his native Portugal, has a life changing experience when he meets Berta (Carmen Maura). Read More »
The House Across the Street (1949) Richard L. Bare, Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher Read More »
Parole Fixer (1940) Robert Florey, William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Read More »
Baby Face Harrington (1935) Raoul Walsh, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens
Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country’s toughest gangster and his gang Read More »
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949) Robert Stevenson, Robert Ryan, Laraine Day, John Agar
Brad Collins, former stevedore, is rising fast in a shipping company when local communist agitators use his former Party affiliation to extort his help in stirring up trouble. Read More »
Outside the Law (1920) Tod Browning, Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »