Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. Read More »
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Magnificat (1993) Pupi Avati, Luigi Diberti, Arnaldo Ninchi, Massimo Bellinzoni
During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture Read More »
Mandingo (1975) Richard Fleischer, James Mason, Susan George, Perry King
It’s the mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. Falconhurst, a run down plantation, is owned by Warren Maxwell Read More »
Abdul the Damned (1935) Karl Grune, Fritz Kortner
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. Read More »
Jedda (1955) Charles Chauvel, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Robert Tudawali, Betty Suttor
Set against the harsh natural surrounds of outback Northern Territory, Jedda captures Read More »
Augustine (2012) Alice Winocour, Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko
A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot Read More »
Free Men / Les hommes libres (2011) Ismaël Ferroukhi, Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby
Paris, occupied France, 1942. Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market. Read More »
Scarlet Dawn (1932) William Dieterle, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Nancy Carroll, Lilyan Tashman
February, 1917. Returning to the German front after a sybaritic leave in Moscow, Russian officer Nikita Krasnoff Read More »
The House on 56th Street (1933) Robert Florey, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin Read More »
Is This Fate? / Von wegen ‘Schicksal’ (1979) Helga Reidemeister
This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s Read More »