This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »
Im Going Home (2001) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Read More »
Forbidden (1984) Anthony Page, Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Drama, Romance, War
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »
Down Mexico Way (1941) Joseph Santley, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Comedy, Thriller, Western
Gene and Frog head down to Mexico, hot on the trail of a group of swindlers who convince townspeople to invest in movies to be filmed on location in their town, and then skip out without making the films. Read More »
Mandalay (1934) Michael Curtiz, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Drama, Romance
Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. Read More »
Ratas, ratones, rateros (1999) Sebastián Cordero, Carlos Valencia, Marco Bustos, Cristina Dávila, Action, Crime, Drama
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Read More »
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, César Silvagni, Biography, History
1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Read More »
Joan at the Stake (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Biography, Drama, History, Musical
The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. Read More »
Crab Trap (2009) Oscar Ruiz Navia, Karent Hinestroza, Arnobio Salazar Rivas, Rodrigo Vélez, Drama
A drama set in the black communities of Colombia’s Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman. Read More »
The Naked Runner (1967) Sidney J. Furie, Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Drama, Thriller
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. Read More »