Angela (Mara Lane, secretary to an important businessman in Italy, Bertolati (Nino Crisman) Read More »
Crime
Hoodlum (1997) Bill Duke, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams
The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming Read More »
Organised Violence Two / Zoku soshiki bôryoku (1967) Jun’ya Satô, Tetsurô Tanba, Fumio Watanabe, Hayato Tani
A superb proto-jitsuroku type yakuza film by Junya Sato. Fumio Watanabe (in probably his best role) Read More »
Criminal Squad / Brigada criminal (1950) Ignacio F. Iquino, José Suárez, Soledad Lence, Alfonso Estela
A young policemen witnesses a bank robbery which will become his first case. Read More »
Dheepan (2015) Jacques Audiard, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby
Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Read More »
Exiled / Fong juk (2006) Johnnie To, Nick Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng
The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money Read More »
Bloodiest Flower / Nihon jokyo-den: ketto midare-bana (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Masahiko Tsugawa
The story of Tei, a female coalmine operator, who risks her life to protect the business that was passed on by her late husband. Read More »
Brave Red Flower of the North / Nihon jokyo-den: makka na dokyo-bana (1970) Yasuo Furuhata, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Shingo Yamashiro
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning Read More »
Last Summer in Tangiers / Dernier été à Tanger (1987) Alexandre Arcady, Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin
In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil. Read More »
The Lonely Sex (1959) Richard Hilliard, Leon Benedict, Mary Gonzalez, Karl Light
Maniac kidnaps a young girl and holds her prisoner in a shack in the woods. Read More »