Clandestine romance provides sad but pleasurable viewing in the high-quality Hong Kong meller “Claustrophobia.” Read More »
Romance
Quality Street (1937) George Stevens, Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore
On Quality Street in 1805 England, a gentleman passerby is an event Read More »
Western (1997) Manuel Poirier, Sergi López, Sacha Bourdo, Élisabeth Vitali
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree Read More »
The Tiger’s Coat (1920) Roy Clements, Lawson Butt, Tina Modotti, Myrtle Stedman
A man agrees to marry the daughter of a deceased friend – who is, in fact Read More »
Sweet November (1968) Robert Ellis Miller, Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel
Sara Deever, a kooky Brooklyn Heights girl, sublets apartments and paints in her spare time. Read More »
The Mysterious Island (1929) Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen, Maurice Tourneur, Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Hughes
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar Read More »
Gentille (2005) Sophie Fillières, Emmanuelle Devos, Lambert Wilson, Bruno Todeschini
Fontaine Leglou is an anesthesiologist in a psychiatric clinic. Read More »
Mayerling (1936) Anatole Litvak, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He’s bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering Read More »
Still Crazy (1998) Brian Gibson, Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail
“Strange Fruit” had everything that makes a legendary rockband: money, fame, success Read More »
The Pearl / La perla (1947) Emilio Fernández, Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués, Fernando Wagner
Quino is a Mexican diver who discovers a pearl at the bottom of the sea. Read More »