An outlandish science-fiction, comedy-thriller full of tongue-and-cheek action, ingenious gadgets in the James Bond style combining violence Read More »
Plunder of the Sun (1953) John Farrow, Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist Read More »
Visit to a Chiefs Son (1974) Lamont Johnson, Richard Mulligan, Johnny Sekka, John Philip Hogdon
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe. Read More »
The Eternal Return (1943) Jean Delannoy, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »
Les filles du Golden Saloon (1975) Gilbert Roussel, Sandra Julien, Evelyne Scott, Roger Darton
Richard le Noir, disguised as a woman, helps free the local girls of the California town of Harriba Lannana, from enslavement at a local brothel called the Golden Saloon. Read More »
Jirocho Fuji (1959) Kazuo Mori, Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu
An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
Steel Trap (2007) Luis Cámara, Georgia Mackenzie, Mark Wilson, Pascal Langdale
A who-is-it setting in the claustrophobic corridors of an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests Read More »
A Gamblers Life: The Massacring Fudo (1969) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Jûshirô Konoe, Machiko Hasegawa
A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler – the gambler’s wife and daughter are sick Read More »
The Penalty (1920) Wallace Worsley, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were perhaps needlessly amputated after an accident Read More »
Somewhere Beyond Love (1974) Luigi Comencini, Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. Read More »