Roistering sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco. Read More »
History
The Fugitive (1947) John Ford, Emilio Fernández, Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »
I Killed Rasputin (1967) Robert Hossein, Gert Fröbe, Peter McEnery, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia’s Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. Read More »
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight (1979) Kevin Billington, John Stride, Claire Bloom, Ronald Pickup, Drama, History
Henry VIII is a proud and wilful monarch who defies Rome’s ban on divorce to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Read More »
It Happened on July 20th (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Drama, History, Thriller, War
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. Read More »
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Drama, History, War
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
American Hot Wax (1978) Floyd Mutrux, Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Drama, History, Music
This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock ‘n’ roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks
In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »