When a young solider is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution Read More »
History
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 »
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 »
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach / Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini
Utilizing letters Anna Magdalena Bach composed to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian Read More »
The Gold Bug / El escarabajo de oro (2014) Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Sandlund, Luciana Acuña, Guillermo Goldschmidt, Walter Jakob
After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden Read More »
The Crucible / Les sorcières de Salem (1957) Raymond Rouleau, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor Read More »
The Story of Adele H. / L’histoire d’Adèle H. (1975) François Truffaut, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson Read More »
Kelin (2009) Ermek Tursynov, Gulsharat Zhubyeva
A woman is led by her family to her new husband’s home, to live with, presumably Read More »
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) John Farrow, Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish
Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town Read More »
No Way Back / Weg ohne Umkehr (1953) Victor Vicas, Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war. Read More »