An autistic child growing up in the 1940’s and 50’s with a mother who is bitter because Read More »
Drama
The Queen of the Night / La reina de la noche (1994) Arturo Ripstein, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alberto Estrella, Blanca Guerra
Fictional biography of Mexican folk singer Lucha Reyes. The film tells the story of her bisexual love affairs Read More »
The French Detective / Adieu poulet (1975) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux
When political thugs murder an opponent’s volunteer and also kill a cop Read More »
The Mirror Has Two Faces / Le miroir a deux faces (1958) André Cayatte, Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. Read More »
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Okefenokee (1959) Roul Haig, Peter Coe, Peggy Maley, Henry Brandon
Gangland boss Joe Kalhari, working with Ricki Hart, operator of a swamp-side dive Read More »
The Door and the Woman of the Butcher / La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969) Luis Alcoriza, Ismael Rodríguez, Chano Urueta, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Carlos Piñar, Armando Silvestre
A movie divided in two segments, the first “la Puerta” (the Door) is about a high society Read More »
Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. Read More »
I Am a Camera (1955) Henry Cornelius, Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters
In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in Berlin Read More »
The Devil’s in Love (1933) William Dieterle, Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne
Unjustly convicted of murdering the major who transferred him to another outpost Read More »