
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children Read More »
Drama
Shadow of the Eagle (1950) Sidney Salkow, Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Greta Gynt

Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia’s many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova Read More »
Little Miss Marker (1934) Alexander Hall, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford

Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker (Temple) is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones Read More »
Educating Rita (1983) Lewis Gilbert, Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams

In Liverpool, twenty-seven-year-old hairdresser Rita (Dame Julie Walters) decides to complete her basic education before having children Read More »
Stacy’s Knights (1983) Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Andra Millian, Eve Lilith

Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Read More »
The Cape Town Affair (1967) Robert D. Webb, James Brolin, Jacqueline Bisset, Claire Trevor

South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. Read More »
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Anatole Litvak, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards

Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone Read More »
Lighthouse (1947) Frank Wisbar, Don Castle, June Lang, John Litel

Looks like the film that might have inspired Hugo Hass to make one like it twice a year in the early fifties. Read More »
In My Life / Honning måne (1978) Bille August, Claus Strandberg, Kirsten Olesen, Jens Okking

A young man, Jens, gets a job in a Copenhagen factory. He lives with his mother and has been without a job for a while. Read More »
Anita: Dances of Vice / Anita: Tänze des Lasters (1987) Rosa von Praunheim, Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honesseau

In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber Read More »