
Ron, who’s young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. Read More »
The Richest Girl in the World (1934) William A. Seiter, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Comedy, Romance

Dorothy Hunter is an heiress of untold wealth. She believes no one will love her for herself and not for her money, so she pretends to be her secretary Sylvia while Sylvia pretends to be Dorothy. Read More »
Midareru / Yearning (1964) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Drama

19yo girl loses husband in war. Bombing destroys his family’s shop and the widow stays to rebuild it as the rest of the family flee and runs it for 18 years out of love for her dead husband and his mother… Read More »
Jitters / Órói (2010) Baldvin Zophoníasson, Atli Oskar Fjalarsson, Ilva Holmes, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Drama, Romance

A 16-year old Icelandic boy’s first kiss with another boy gives him “jitters”–feelings he can’t deny. Read More »
The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951) George Cukor, Jeanne Crain, Thelma Ritter, Scott Brady, Comedy, Romance

Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients’ affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can’t resist meddling in her life Read More »
Entotsu no mieru basho / Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine, Drama

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. Read More »
Eyewitness (1981) Peter Yates, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily to watch after work. Read More »
Record Of A Tenement Gentleman (1947)

An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid board. Read More »
Goran (2016) Nevio Marasovic, Franjo Dijak, Natasa Janjic, Goran Bogdan, Drama, Thriller

Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. Read More »
Les grands ducs / The Grand Dukes (1996) Patrice Leconte, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Comedy

Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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