A young, impressionable communist Hugo is sent to kill a rogue party chairman Read More »
Drama
The Winner’s Circle / Premières armes (1950) René Wheeler, Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette, Guy Decomble
The heroes are young boys, trained as jockeys in a horse farm. Read More »
Young Toscanini / Il giovane Toscanini (1988) Franco Zeffirelli, C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward
In Rio de Janeiro in 1886, eighteen-year-old conductor Arturo Toscanini (C. Thomas Howell) Read More »
Concert of Wishes / Koncert zyczen (1967) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ryszard Dembinski, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Ewa Konarska
A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. Read More »
Ministry of Fear (1944) Fritz Lang, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. Read More »
Thieves’ Highway (1949) Jules Dassin, Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb
The soldier Nick Garcos returns back home from the war very happy with gifts for his parents Read More »
La sagrada familia / The Sacred Family (2005) Sebastián Lelio, Patricia López, Néstor Cantillana, Sergio Hernández
It’s Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. Read More »
The Beat That My Heart Skipped / De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (2005) Jacques Audiard, Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Gilles Cohen
Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist? Read More »
Pretty Ladies (1925) Monta Bell, Zasu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit Read More »
Forgive Our Trespasses / Pardonnez nos offenses (1956) Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Pierre Vaneck, Giani Esposito
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. Read More »