In this prequel, Germán Areta leaves his position as a policeman to become a private detective in post-Francoist Spain. Read More »
Islands in the Stream (1977) Franklin J. Schaffner, George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland
It’s 1940 in the British-controlled Bahamas. While the war rages on in Europe, the islands are only peripherally affected by it Read More »
Women (1985) Stanley Kwan, Cora Miao, Yun-Fat Chow, Cherie Chung
Unfortunate Bao-er decides to divorce her husband Derek after she discovers he is having an affair. Read More »
Ladies of the Chorus (1948) Phil Karlson, Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. Read More »
Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room (1969) Kôsaku Yamashita, Bin Amatsu, Hiroshi Arikawa, Daisuke Awaji
After collecting her sickly follower from jail, Oryu is taken in by a fishing village. Read More »
The Dogs (1979) Alain Jessua, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence. Read More »
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) Robert Stevenson, Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo
Lord Southmere escapes from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X” Read More »
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
Riff-Raff (1947) Ted Tetzlaff, Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. Read More »
The Trip to Tilsit / Die Reise nach Tilsit (1939) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Anna Dammann
From the same Sudermann story that inspired Murnau’s Sunrise Read More »