Black comedy about a blind man, Martin, who takes photographs as “proof” Read More »
Romance
Portrait of an Unknown Woman AKA Bildnis einer Unbekannten (1954) Helmut Käutner, Ruth Leuwerik, O.W. Fischer, Erich Schellow
Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. Read More »
My Wife Is an Actress AKA Ma femme est une actrice (2001) Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Terence Stamp
Paris can boast a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses. Read More »
Men in Her Life (1931) William Beaudine, Lois Moran, Charles Bickford, Victor Varconi
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves Read More »
Kit Kat (1991) Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Read More »
As Tears Go By AKA Wong gok ka moon (1988) Kar Wai Wong, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
A low-level triad “big brother” has a hot-tempered “little brother” who can’t keep out of trouble Read More »
Hibiscus Town AKA Fu rong zhen (1986) Jin Xie, Wen Jiang, Linian Liu, Xiaoqing Liu
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life Read More »
The Consequences of Love AKA Le conseguenze dell’amore (2004) Paolo Sorrentino, Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini
Titta di Girolamo apparently has a regular and tedious life with nothing strange Read More »
Housewife (1934) Alfred E. Green, George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Read More »
Desire (1936) Frank Borzage, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain Read More »