Told in flashback from a preface in which the main character visits Paramount to sell his story! Read More »
Drama
Green Snake (1993) Hark Tsui, Maggie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wenzhuo Zhao
Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life, while Green Snake played around every day. Read More »
Blossoms in the Dust (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. Read More »
Sweet Little Lies (2010) Hitoshi Yazaki, Miki Nakatani, Nao Ômori, Jûichi Kobayashi
Underneath the veneer of orderly lives, frozen smiles and awkward averted glances, SWEET LITTLE LIES is a cold-as-steel clinical study of a couple. Read More »
Umbracle (1970) Pere Portabella, Christopher Lee, Jeannine Mestre, Miguel Bilbatúa
This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. Read More »
Babaric Land (2013) Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Every era has its fascism. A film necessary for us at this time, over fascism and colonialism. Read More »
Pastor Hall (1940) Roy Boulting, Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. Read More »
L’hiver (1969) Marcel Hanoun, Tiziana Siffi, Michael Lonsdale, Christian Barbier
While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage. Read More »
La nuit claire (1979) Marcel Hanoun, Lorraine Bonnemaison, Gérard Rouzier, Florence Rousseau
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers’ interpretation of the most beautiful passages from “Orpheus,” the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi Read More »
Criss Cross (1949) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. Read More »