This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. Read More »
Churchill’s Leopards AKA I Leopardi di Churchill (1970) Maurizio Pradeaux, Richard Harrison, Pilar Velázquez, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
The mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam Read More »
Captain Blood AKA Le capitan (1960) André Hunebelle, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli
The young King Louis XIII is dominated by his mother Marie de Medici and her favorite Concino Concini. Read More »
Private Parts (1972) Paul Bartel, Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio
When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt’s skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. Read More »
Portrait of Jennie (1948) William Dieterle
Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. Read More »
Ruslan and Ludmila AKA Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) Aleksandr Ptushko, Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov
Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. Read More »
The 4th Man AKA De vierde man (1983) Paul Verhoeven, Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman
The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve who is bisexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death Read More »
Play It As It Lays (1972) Frank Perry
Maria Wyeth, an ex-model and B-movie actress, strolls on the grounds of a mental hospital Read More »
The Berlin Affair AKA Interno berlinese (1985) Liliana Cavani, Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets Read More »
The Future AKA Il Futuro (2013) Alicia Scherson, Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Rutger Hauer
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. Read More »
Black Orpheus AKA Orfeu Negro (1959) Marcel Camus, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira
In the heady atmosphere of Rio’s carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Read More »
Happiness Ahead (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Dick Powell, Josephine Hutchinson, John Halliday
Joan’s parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. Read More »
Si Versailles m’était conté (1954) Sacha Guitry, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV Read More »
The Blue Bird (1940) Walter Lang, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper’s children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past Read More »
Toto Who Lived Twice AKA Totò che visse due volte (1998) Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco, Marcello Miranda, Carlo Giordano, Pietro Arciadiacono
The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore Read More »