This classical peplum tells a fictitious story set in 490 BC, the time of the Medic Wars during which Persian armies sweep the Ancient world. Read More »
Drama
Una questione d’onore (1966) Luigi Zampa, Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier
A fierce satire in the pure style of Zampa, this film mocks, exaggerating Read More »
Killing Auntie (1985) Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Wladyslaw Dewoyno, Krystyna Feldman, Wieslaw Golas
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old’s mind. Read More »
Futures vedettes (1955) Marc Allégret, Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia
At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter. Read More »
Few of Us (1996) Sharunas Bartas, Yekaterina Golubeva, Piotr Kishteev, Sergei Tulayev
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman’s journey in Siberia. Read More »
Crazed Beast (1976) Sadao Nakajima, Tsunehiko Watase, Jun Hoshino, Takuzô Kawatani
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. Read More »
A Canterbury Tale (1944) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
A ‘Land Girl’, an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. Read More »
Ana (1982) Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis, Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras
It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke’s poets with a local narrative. Read More »
Keyhole (2011) Guy Maddin, Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence Read More »
Sword of Islam (1961) Enrico Bomba, Andrew Marton, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Mazhar, Farid Shawqi
Set in the 14th century, under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Egypt, and Syria. Read More »