Marina’s sister drowned herself, her brother is both headstrong and weak, and her widowed mother has a reputation for sleeping around. Read More »
Drama
Sylvia (1965) Gordon Douglas, Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Joanne Dru
Sylvia West is a young poetess engaged to Frederic Summers, an eccentric millionaire. Read More »
Regain (1937) Marcel Pagnol, Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel
One by one, the inhabitants of a provincial French village depart, until only the poacher Panturle remains. Read More »
We’re All Still Here (1997) Anne-Marie Miéville, Aurore Clément, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Godard
Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work Read More »
Water Flower (2005) Yusuke Kinoshita, Azusa Hibino, Asuka Kurosawa, Tomi Nakaho
A portrait of the relationship between Minako, a girl in junior high deserted by her mother when she was young Read More »
City Streets (1931) Rouben Mamoulian, Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
Nan, a racketeer’s daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
Hell (1994) Claude Chabrol, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife’s infidelity. Read More »
The Blade (1995) Hark Tsui, Wenzhuo Zhao, Xin Xin Xiong, Sonny Su
After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker Read More »
Cornered (1945) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing Read More »