Okatsu: a “tomboy” who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry Read More »
Drama
25 Fireman’s Street / Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973) István Szabó, Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated Read More »
Silent Witness (1985) Michael Miller, Valerie Bertinelli, John Savage, Chris Nash
Michael, son of a prestigious family, and his friends rape the young alcoholic Patty Read More »
Young Adam (2003) David Mackenzie, Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh Read More »
The Battle of El Alamein / La battaglia di El Alamein (1969) Giorgio Ferroni, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Michael Rennie
June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Read More »
Haunted Summer (1988) Ivan Passer, Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz
Based on the infamous Summer of 1816 when Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” Read More »
They Don’t Wear Black Tie / Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (1981) Leon Hirszman, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli
A large factory in Brazil is having problems with its workers and their union Read More »
Vanities (1981) Gary Halvorson, Meredith Baxter, Shelley Hack, Leslie Hoffman
A wonderful ensemble piece about three women that takes them from High School to College and then to a later reunion. Read More »
Violent Moment (1959) Sidney Hayers, Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Jill Browne
Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat Read More »
The Bad Seed (1956) Mervyn LeRoy, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most “perfect” daughter in the world. Read More »