Richard Kaplan documents the life of one of America’s most influential first ladies. Read More »
History
Belizaire the Cajun (1986) Glen Pitre, Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling
This inexpensive but effusively energetic film is set in Louisiana’s Cajun country of the 19th century. Read More »
A Queen for Caesar / Una regina per Cesare (1962) Piero Pierotti, Viktor Tourjansky, Pascale Petit, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her. Read More »
Private Vices, Public Pleasures / Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù (1976) Miklós Jancsó, Lajos Balázsovits, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Branciaroli
Golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. Read More »
Joan of Arc: God’s Warrior (2015) Lucy Swingler, Helen Castor, Georgia Moffett, Michael Feast
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life – and death – of Joan of Arc. Read More »
The Desert of the Tartars / Il Deserto dei Tartari (1976) Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma
As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders Read More »
Hercules Against Rome / Ercole contro Roma (1964) Piero Pierotti, Sergio Ciani, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days Read More »
The Twilight Samurai / Tasogare Seibei (2002) Yôji Yamada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. Read More »
Operación masacre (1973) Jorge Cedron, Marta Albanese, Norma Aleandro, Enrique Alonso
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina Read More »
The Condemned of Altona / I sequestrati di Altona (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father Read More »