In México City, a Cuban dancer from “Cabaret Changó” rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way. Read More »
Drama
The Getting of Wisdom (1977) Bruce Beresford, Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ Read More »
Murder at the Windmill (1949) Val Guest, Garry Marsh, Jon Pertwee, Jack Livesey
A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti
Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »
Blue Black Permanent (1992) Margaret Tait, Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson
Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet. Read More »
Battle in the Sea of Japan (1969) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails Read More »
I Stand Alone (1998) Gaspar Noé, Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
The Butcher (known from Noe’s short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Read More »
Storms of Passion (1932) Robert Siodmak, Emil Jannings, Anna Sten, Trude Hesterberg
Utamaros World (1977) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida, Mikijirô Hira, Shingo Yamashiro
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. Read More »
Brother Rat (1938) William Keighley, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father. Read More »