An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples Read More »
Drama
Back to Back, Face to Face / Bei kao bei, lian dui lian (1994) Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang, Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. Read More »
King of Burlesque (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. Read More »
The Night Club Lady (1932) Irving Cummings, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolph Menjou) sets out to discover who murdered Read More »
Black Zoo (1963) Robert Gordon, Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren
The owner of a small zoo uses the animals to kill his enemies. Read More »
The Puppeteer / Dom Roberto (1962) Ernesto de Sousa, Raul Solnado, Glicínia Quartin, Luís Cerqueira
João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity – what coins the people of Lisbon’s Read More »
Black Cat / Yabu no naka no kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the time of civil war. Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y chocolate (1993) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío, Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist Read More »
The Moon and the Stars (2007) John Irvin, Jonathan Pryce, Alfred Molina, Catherine McCormack
Together in Rome to shoot a film, a German actress (McCormack) Read More »