
In Shanghai in the 1880s there are four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (called madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. Read More »
Drama
Utz (1992) George Sluizer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Drama

Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron’s priceless Meissen porcelain collection. Read More »
Le Lieu du crime / Scene of the Crime (1986) André Téchiné, Nicolas Giraudi, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Crime, Drama, Romance

In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. Read More »
Molchi, grust… molchi / Be Silent, Sorrow, Be Silent (1918) Pyotr Chardynin, Konstantin Khokhlov, Vera Kholodnaya, Drama

Pola performs in a circus double act of music and clowning with her husband Lorio. Read More »
White Dog (1982) Samuel Fuller, Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Deprogramming a dog who kills Blacks is the ultimate challenge for an unorthodox African-American trainer. Read More »
Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »
The Mother (2003) Roger Michell, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Drama, Romance

Toots and May’s marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Read More »
Sellaisena kuin sinä minut halusit / The Way You Wanted Me (1944) Teuvo Tulio, Marie-Louise Fock, Ture Ara, Kunto Karapää, Drama

A girl who moves to the city after her fiancé lacks the courage to face his father ,who is against their relationship. Read More »
De andre (2012) Margreth Olin, Goli Mohammed Ali, Husein Ali, Khalid Faquiri, Documentary, Drama

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. Read More »
Yvy Maraey (2013) Juan Carlos Valdivia, Elio Ortíz, Felipe Román, Drama, Documentary

A filmmaker tracing the steps of Swedish explorer Erland Nordeskiold travels with a Guarani Indian from the highlands of La Paz to the swamps in the forests of South Eastern Bolivia, a place where uncontacted indigenous still exist. Read More »