Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Marriage of Chiffon AKA Le mariage de Chiffon (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, André Luguet, Jacques Dumesnil
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. Read More »
Dance Hall (1950) Charles Crichton, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Read More »
People on Sunday AKA Menschen am Sonntag (1930) Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Edwin, a taxi driver, lives with Annie, a neurasthenic model. They plan to spend Sunday at the Nikolassee beach with Wolfgang Read More »
Beware of a Holy Whore AKA Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (1971) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm
On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. Read More »
The Stendhal Syndrome AKA La sindrome di Stendhal (1996) Dario Argento, Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. Read More »
Hustawka (2010) Tomasz Lewkowicz, Wojciech Zielinski, Joanna Orleanska, Karolina Gorczyca
35-year-old Michal (Wojciech Zielinski) has a beautiful wife, Anna (Joanna of Orleans) and daughter Justine. Read More »
2/Duo (1997) Nobuhiro Suwa, Eri Yu, Miyuki Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Yu, an employee at a clothing boutique, lives with Kei, an out-of-work actor who lives off of her. Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AKA Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Julian Schnabel, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Norman Taurog, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Read More »
Bathing Beauty (1944) George Sidney, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who’s been paid by Steve’s agent Read More »
China O’Brien (1990) Robert Clouse, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke
China O’Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge Read More »
Dark Star (1974) John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle
Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets Read More »
The Amateur (1981) Charles Jarrott, John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder Read More »
The Lighthouse Keepers AKA Os Faroleiros (1922) Maurice Mariaud, A. Castro Neves, Castro Neves
In a community of fishermen, a love triangle stands out, whose conflict culminates in a lighthouse isolated from the coast. Read More »