Some guy wants something badly enough to literally sell his skin to get it. Metaphorically, of course, we all know he is selling his soul to get his heart’s desire. Read More »
Kidnapning / The Kidnapping (1982) Sven Methling, Michael Nezer, Jesper Lund, Tobias Fog, Comedy, Family
Three young brothers decide with their uncle to become criminals and kidnap the son of a wealthy man. This film is based on a story by Bjarne Reuter.
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Lionheart (1987) Franklin J. Schaffner, Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Adventure, Drama
A young knight sets out to join King Richard’s crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. Read More »
Sordid Lives (2000) Del Shores, Delta Burke, Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Comedy, Romance
We become intimate with the “Sordid Lives” of a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Read More »
Hikinige / Hit and Run (1966) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Eitarô Ozawa, Crime, Drama
A working-class woman becomes bent on revenge after her little boy is killed in a hit and run; she discovers that the man who took the rap was simply a corporate lackey covering up for his boss’s wife. Read More »
Der Schatz der Azteken / Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) Robert Siodmak, Lex Barker, Gérard Barray, Rik Battaglia, Adventure, Western
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico Read More »
Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Robert Florey, Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Crime, Drama, Romance
Set in San Francisco, ANNA MAY WONG stars as woman who is thrust into danger after her father is murdered by criminals involved with human trafficking. Read More »
Tsuma to shite onna to shite / As a Wife, As a Woman (1961) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Chikage Awashima, Masayuki Mori, Drama
The children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother. Read More »
Always Together (1947) Frederick De Cordova, Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Comedy
Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Read More »
You Never Can Tell (1951) Lou Breslow, Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden, Comedy, Fantasy
An ex-police/army dog (German Shepherd), named Rex inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. Read More »