Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 1: Rust (2003) Bing Wang
Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions Read More »
Billy Budd (1962) Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas
H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars Read More »
One Night Stand (1984) John Duigan, Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett
In Australia, four teenagers in the Sydney Opera House are horrified to hear the news that nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. Read More »
Japanese Girls at the Harbor AKA Minato no nihonmusume (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan Read More »
Passion AKA Szenvedély (1998) György Fehér, Ildikó Bánsági, Djoko Rosic, János Derzsi
In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband. Read More »
Tora-san’s Forget Me Not AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wasurenagusa (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Ruriko Asaoka
Tora visits his family after a year. After a misunderstanding he gets upset and leaves to end up in the countryside. Read More »
Versus (2000) Ryûhei Kitamura, Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met Read More »
April Story AKA Shigatsu monogatari (1998) Shunji Iwai, Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Read More »
Diabolical Pact AKA Pacto diabólico (1969) Jaime Salvador, John Carradine, Regina Torné, Miguel Ángel Álvarez
A crazed doctor performs gruesome experiments in his search for a youth serum. Read More »
A Better Tomorrow AKA Ying hung boon sik (1986) John Woo, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Yun-Fat Chow
This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful counterfeiter Read More »
Permanent Vacation (1980) Jim Jarmusch, Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie
In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy (‘Chris Parker’)whose Father is not around Read More »
Make a Million (1935) Lewis D. Collins, Charles Starrett, Pauline Brooks, George E. Stone
A college economics professor’s “radical” ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice Read More »
Its Always Fair Weather (1955) Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Ted, Doug, and Angie are three ex-G.I.s who vow to meet again at a New York bar on October 11, 1955. Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Roy Del Ruth, Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in his new show. Read More »