A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. Read More »
Perfect Understanding (1933) Cyril Gardner, Gloria Swanson, Laurence Olivier, John Halliday
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. Read More »
Ryôjû / Hunting Rifle (1961) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshie Minami, Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »
The Florentine (1999) Nick Stagliano, Jeremy Davies, Virginia Madsen, Luke Perry
The bar in an old Pennsylvania steel town, housed with many of life’s losers and disillusioned men, is the main setting for this slice-of-life film. Read More »
Stormy Weather (2003) Sólveig Anspach, Élodie Bouchez, Didda Jónsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur
A very sad but genuinely human story. The middle-aged Icelandic woman Loa is seriously mentally ill. Read More »
Because of You (1952) Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol
Blonde ‘doll’ Christine Carroll finds too late that her fiancée Mike is a gangster and she’s his unwitting accessory. Read More »
Male Hunt (1964) Édouard Molinaro, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Dorléac
Fernand, a groom-to-be who is dissuaded from stepping up to the altar by his two friends Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
Finis Hominis / The End of Man (1971) José Mojica Marins, Teresa Sodré, Roque Rodrigues
Stark naked man comes out from the sea and begins to walk the streets, interfering in daily episodes, always in search of justice. Read More »
Full Contact (2015) David Verbeek, Grégoire Colin, Lizzie Brocheré, Slimane Dazi
Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose Read More »