Marcia Cameron, the mistress of gang leader Dan Tyler, desires to end their relationship after she falls in love with Bob Henderson, an honest banker’s son who does not wish to know about her past. Read More »
I’ll Wait for You (1941) Robert B. Sinclair, Robert Sterling, Marsha Hunt, Virginia Weidler, Drama, Romance
A remake of Robert Montgomery’s 1934 hit Hide-Out, this superb film directed by Robert B. Sinclair (known for his classic Broadway productions of The Philadelphia Story, Dodsworth and Pride and Prejudice) creates a mesmerizing dance between innocence and a life gone wrong. Read More »
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan (1951) Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Read More »
Insurance Investigator (1951) George Blair, Richard Denning, Audrey Long, John Eldredge, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
John Hammond’s partner, George Sullivan, dies in an apparently accidental death, with Hammond the beneficiary of his double-indemnity insurance policy. Read More »
Lured (1947) Douglas Sirk, George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. Read More »
Buta to gunkan / Pigs and Battleships (1961) Shôhei Imamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Kinta is caught in the mesh of poverty and opts out by joining the local yakuza gang. His greed draws him into the drug dealing, pimping, and racketeering that fill the gang’s coffers. Read More »
Wedad (1936) Ahmed Badrakhan, Fritz Kramp, Ahmed Allam, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abdel Fatah Hassan, Drama
Baher is a merchant in love with his serf Wedad who goes bankrupt because his merchandises are stolen. Read More »
Hu die / Butterfly (2004) Yan Yan Mak, Josie Ho, Yuan Tian, Eric Kot, Drama
Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. Read More »
I nostri mariti (1966) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Comedy, Romance
Movies in three episodes due to three different hands. In the first, D’Amico, a young man is attracted by a rather masculine woman. Read More »
One More Kiss (1999) Vadim Jean, Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler, Valerie Gogan, Drama, Romance
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam Read More »