In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ Read More »
The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Robert Z. Leonard, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called “The Poker”. Read More »
Portrait of Jason (1967) Shirley Clarke, Jason Holliday, Carl Lee
The highlights of a 12-hour interview with Aaron Payne, alias Jason Holliday, a former houseboy Read More »
Murder at the Windmill (1949) Val Guest, Garry Marsh, Jon Pertwee, Jack Livesey
A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. Read More »
Fours a Crowd (1938) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Read More »
One Human Minute (2009) Pater Sparrow, Zoltán Mucsi, László Sinkó, Pál Mácsai
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti
Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »
Blue Black Permanent (1992) Margaret Tait, Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson
Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet. Read More »
Battle in the Sea of Japan (1969) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails Read More »
I Stand Alone (1998) Gaspar Noé, Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain
The Butcher (known from Noe’s short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Read More »