Forget her string of Broadway successes. Forget even the flowers-and-candlelight ardor of handsome bachelors. Read More »
Romance
Hassan and Nayima AKA Hasan wa Naimah (1959) Henry Barakat, Muharram Fuad, Suad Husni, Mohammed Tawfik
Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Battle Circus (1953) Richard Brooks, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn
Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. Read More »
Show Boat (1929) Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath, Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy
The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy Read More »
The Europeans (1979) James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe Read More »
Heat (1972) Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Joey, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent Read More »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
The Crowd (1928) King Vidor, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. Read More »
Kings and Queen AKA Rois et reine (2004) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed Read More »
Sleepless AKA La anam (1957) Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamamah, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
‘I Never Sleep’ (also called ‘Sleepless’) is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl Read More »