Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn’t. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
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Les Témoins / The Witnesses (2007) André Téchiné, Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Drama, Romance
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer’s return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Read More »
Miss Julie (1999) Mike Figgis, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Drama
Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex strictures of class bind a man and a woman. Read More »
Cita imposible (1958) Antonio Santillán, Beni Deus, Claudine Dupuis, Juanita Espín, Crime, Drama
When Rosario is released from a one year prison sentence in Barcelona women’s detention center, she is determined to prove her innocence. Read More »
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Drama, Western
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »
Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Read More »
Sword in the Desert (1949) George Sherman, Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Action, Drama, History, War
Cynical freighter captain Mike Dillon hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine. Read More »
Rikollinen nainen / A Woman of Crime (1952) Teuvo Tulio, Regina Linnanheimo, Eija Karipää, Tauno Majuri, Drama, Romance
Regina Linnanheimo plays Eeva, a happy and spirited lady who is being courted by two gentlemen. Read More »
Shi no toge / The Sting of Death (1990) Kôhei Oguri, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi, Drama
Period drama set in the 1950’s about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair. Read More »
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Action, Adventure
The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. Read More »