Queen Louise’s cabinet are worried that she will become an old maid, and are delighted when she marries the rougish Count Renard. Read More »
Kaette kita yopparai / Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968) Nagisa Ôshima, Kazuhiko Kato, Osamu Kitayama, Norihiko Hashida, Action, Comedy
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story. Read More »
Der Fälscher von London / The Forger of London (1961) Harald Reinl, Karin Dor, Hellmut Lange, Siegfried Lowitz, Crime, Drama
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may–or may not–have amnesia. Read More »
The Strange Countess (1961) Josef von Báky, Jürgen Roland, Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Lil Dagover, Adventure, Crime
(1961) Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum. A girl is almost murdered, but no explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered and linked to the case.
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El abrazo partido / Lost Embrace (2004) Daniel Burman, Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge D’Elía, Comedy
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture Read More »
Reg’lar Fellers (1941) Arthur Dreifuss, Billy Lee, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Buddy Boles, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the “Reg’lar Fellers”, and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine Read More »
Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo / Key of Life (2012) Kenji Uchida, Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Unemployed 35 year old Sakurai aspired to become an actor, but failed miserably. He decides to end his own life, but first he goes to purify himself at a public bathhouse. Read More »
Tie luo han / The Iron Buddha (1970) Chun Yen, Yun Ling, Yin Fang, Jeanette Yu Wei, Action, Adventure
A psychopathic serial rapist resumes his murderous rampage after ignoring a compassionate master’s plea to repent leading to his own demise Read More »
The Princess and the Call Girl (1984) Radley Metzger, Carol Levy, Victor Bevine, Shannah Hall, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
Two women–one a wealthy society débutante, the other an elegant call girl–with a remarkable resemblance to one another decide to trade professions and social positions temporarily and see what results from it. Read More »
Glad Tidings (1953) Wolf Rilla, Barbara Kelly, Raymond Huntley, Ronald Howard, Comedy, Drama
An English colonel finds love with an American widow, to the displeasure of his children. Read More »