In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
Crazy House (1943) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Cass Daley, Comedy, Musical
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi Read More »
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) Mike Newell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gregory Peck, Dean Alexander, Drama, Sport
Chuck Murdock is an all American kid living in a sleepy town in Montana. He is the top pitcher of the little league team as well. Read More »
Vampires Kiss (1988) Robert Bierman, Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Comedy, Horror
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. Read More »
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) Mark Bittner, Judy Irving, Documentary
In San Francisco, there are at least two flocks of largely wild parrots who flock around the city. Read More »
Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Bille August, Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Drama
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Read More »
John and Jane (2005) Ashim Ahluwalia, Glen Castinho, Sydney Fernandes, Nikesh Soares, Documentary
A entirely original blend of observational documentary and tropical science-fiction, JOHN & JANE follows the stories of six “call agents” that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center. Read More »
Blind Spot (1947) Robert Gordon, Chester Morris
A down-and-nearly-out writer makes a drunken visit to the office of his publisher Read More »
Postcards From The Zoo / Kebun binatang (2012) Edwin, Adjie Nur Ahmad, Klarysa Aurelia, Ladya Cheryl, Drama
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Read More »
Nippon konchuki / The Insect Woman (1963) Shôhei Imamura, Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki, Drama
Amorality in Japan. Tome is born into poverty in rural Japan, in the late 1910s. Chuji, her father, dotes on her; her mother is less faithful. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman (1968) Tokuzô Tanaka, Raizô Ichikawa, Miwa Takada, Yaeko Mizutani, Drama
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea – especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off. Read More »
The Light in the Forest (1958) Herschel Daugherty, Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance, Western
In 1764, the British come to an agreement with the native Delaware tribes in order to bring peace to the region. Read More »
Ninjô kami fûsen / Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) Sadao Yamanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Tsuruzô Nakamura, Drama
The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes. Read More »