A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life. Read More »
La venganza del lobo negro (1980) Rafael Romero Marchent, Fernando Allende, Christian Bach, Álvaro de Luna, Action, Adventure, Drama
After two months of relative tranquility in California, the villanous old colonel is elected Governor of California. Read More »
Caddie (1976) Donald Crombie, Helen Morse, Takis Emmanuel, Jack Thompson, Drama, Romance
Sydney, Australia in the mid-1920’s. Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her rich cad husband walks out on her. Read More »
Ihre Majestät die Liebe / Her Majesty Love (1931) Joe May, Käthe von Nagy, Francis Lederer, Otto Wallburg, Comedy
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. Read More »
Lucky Jordan (1942) Frank Tuttle, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lucky Jordan, cynical gambler and racketeer, finds one thing his luck and connections can’t fix: the draft board. Read More »
U samogo sinego morya / By the Bluest of Seas (1936) Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin, Alexei Dolinin, Sergey Komarov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Drama, Musical, Romance
Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. Read More »
The Jerk (1979) Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Comedy
Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a fortune.
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Night of the Demons 2 (1994) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Cristi Harris, Darin Heames, Robert Jayne, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Angela, the universe’s most unpleasant party crasher, returns! Angela’s sister, Mouse, is taken by her bullying Catholic school classmates to a party at Angela’s favorite haunt Read More »
When the Clouds Roll by (1919) Victor Fleming, Douglas Fairbanks, Albert MacQuarrie, Kathleen Clifford, Action, Comedy, Romance
The comfortable and amiable Daniel Boone Brown, a resident of New York’s water front, becomes the victim of a mad scientist’s psychological experiments. Read More »
Once a Thief (1950) W. Lee Wilder, Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
Shiroi yajuu / White Beast (1950) Mikio Naruse, Mitsuko Miura, Sô Yamamura, Eiji Okada, Drama
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman’s prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy (1966) Kenji Misumi, Raizô Ichikawa, Shigeru Amachi, Shiho Fujimura, Action, Drama
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei Read More »
Haruka naru yama no yobigoe / A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) Yôji Yamada, Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka
A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. Read More »
Never Weaken (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Thriller
Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »
Duffer (1971) Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq, Kit Gleave, Erna May, Drama
An intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.
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