It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending. Read More »
Sex Is Crazy (1981) Jesus Franco, Lina Romay, Lynn Endersson, Antonio Mayans
A group of actresses appear in an adult science fiction film but are later abducted by real aliens Read More »
Choses secrètes / Secret Things (2002) Jean-Claude Brisseau, Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont
Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie Read More »
From Hell to Texas (1958) Henry Hathaway, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Read More »
The Solitaire Man (1933) Jack Conway, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Lionel Atwill
Oliver Lane is “The Solitaire Man,” a renowned jewel thief who is ready to retire and marry Helen Read More »
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. Read More »
Un amor / One Love (2011) Paula Hernández, Diego Peretti, Luis Ziembrowski, Elena Roger
Childhood friends Bruno and Lalo are inseparable, until Lisa enters their lives. Read More »
Nine Men (1943) Harry Watt, Jack Lambert, Grant Sutherland, Gordon Jackson
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. Read More »
The Stone Raft (2002) George Sluizer, Federico Luppi, Icíar Bollaín, Gabino Diego
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. Read More »
Taras Shevchenko (1926) Pyotr Chardynin
The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. Read More »