Johanna ‘Hannie’ Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Read More »
Drama
Devotion (1931) Robert Milton, Ann Harding
The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) “dutiful” daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself Read More »
Ghetto (2006) Audrius Juzenas, Heino Ferch
In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel Read More »
Don’t Turn ’em Loose (1936) Benjamin Stoloff, Lewis Stone
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote. Read More »
Ballad of a Worker (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »
In the King of Prussia (1982) Emile de Antonio
Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the “Plowshares Eight”. In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons Read More »
Mikkai / The Assignation (1959) Kô Nakahira
Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor Read More »
I Stole a Million (1939) Frank Tuttle
A grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. Read More »
On Such a Night (1956) Anthony Asquith
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds Read More »
The Hireling (1973) Alan Bridges, Robert Shaw
A young British woman suffering from depression over the loss Read More »