Feeling lonely and neglected by her overworked husband, Roxy, a Depression-era farm wife, is drawn into an ill-advised affair with Jack, their hired hand. Read More »
Drama
Washington Square (1997) Agnieszka Holland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Drama, Romance
Set in 1870’s New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father Read More »
Narayama bushikô / Ballad of Narayama (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Drama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »
Yuke yuke nidome no shojo / Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) Kôji Wakamatsu, Michio Akiyama, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Mimi Kozakura, Drama
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. Read More »
Three Secrets (1950) Robert Wise, Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Drama
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. Read More »
Some Came Running (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Drama, Romance
In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana. Read More »
L’amante del demonio / Lucifera: Demonlover (1972) Paolo Lombardo, Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Drama, Horror
Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay) plays a beautiful young woman who, while traveling with her two female friends, ends up staying the night in a huge castle – which, according to legend, is the Devil’s dwelling-place. Read More »
Tsuma yo bara no yô ni / Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) Mikio Naruse, Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô, Drama
A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. Read More »
City That Never Sleeps (1953) John H. Auer, Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. Read More »
Fear and Desire (1953) Stanley Kubrick, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Drama, Thriller, War
A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines. Read More »