A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Read More »
Romance
The Wrong Man (1993) Jim McBride, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Anderson, John Lithgow
US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico Read More »
My Father the Hero / Mon père, ce héros. (1991) Gérard Lauzier, Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. Read More »
Jack London (1943) Alfred Santell, Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen
Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »
Hell Below Zero (1954) Mark Robson, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through Read More »
The Prickly-mouthed Geisha / Beran me-e geisha (1959) Eiichi Koishi, Hibari Misora, Shinjirô Ebara, Takashi Shimura
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Read More »
By Player / Sanmon yakusha (2000) Kaneto Shindô, Naoto Takenaka, Keiko Oginome, Hideko Yoshida
Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo Read More »
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) Roy William Neill, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact Read More »
Akitsu Springs / Akitsu onsen (1962) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura
The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. Read More »
I Love a Bandleader (1945) Del Lord, Phil Harris, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Leslie Brooks
Harris and his assistant Eddie “Rochester” Anderson are painters doing a job at a nightclub. Read More »