A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) Read More »
History
Les Miserables (1952) Lewis Milestone, Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget
After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced Read More »
Escape / Flukt (2012) Roar Uthaug, Isabel Christine Andreasen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Milla Olin
It’s been ten years since the Black Plague ravaged the lands. Read More »
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Clarence Brown, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal – Peggy to most that know her Read More »
Sword of Desperation / Hisshiken torisashi (2010) Hideyuki Hirayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kôji Kikkawa
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Read More »
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) Lewis Gilbert, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham
Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Read More »
Utu (1984) Geoff Murphy, Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. Read More »
A Southern Yankee (1948) Edward Sedgwick, Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl
Aubrey Filmore (Red Skelton) is a bumbling bellboy in a Missouri town who pesters Read More »
Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer / Alatriste (2006) Agustín Díaz Yanes, Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde
Spain 17th century. Diego Alatriste, brave and heroic soldier, is fighting Read More »
Marie Antoinette Queen of France / Marie-Antoinette reine de France (1956) Jean Delannoy, Michèle Morgan, Richard Todd, Jacques Morel
In 1774, Marie-Antoinette, wife of the dauphin, heavy and clumsy Read More »