Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames’ Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show’s vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.
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Lejos del mar / Far from the Sea (2015) Imanol Uribe, Elena Anaya, Eduard Fernández, José Luis García Pérez, Drama, Thriller
In 2009, and after 22 years in prison, a former ETA’s terrorist named Santi is released due to the Parot Doctrine (a polemic judicial resource to liberate activists and terrorists according their sentences and years in detention).
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Cover Girl (1944) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rusty Parker, a red-headed leggy dancer at Danny McGuire’s Night Club in Brooklyn, wants to be a successful Broadway star. She enters a contest to be a ‘Cover Girl’ as a stepping-stone in her career. She reminds the publisher, John Coudair, of his lost love, showgirl Maribelle Hicks.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941) Wallace Fox, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Comedy, Crime, Drama
East Side Kids: Fighters Danny Breslin and Muggs McGinnis, once boyhood chums, have drifted apart. Policeman Tom Brady – because his own former friend fell into a life of crime and got the electric chair – takes rough and tumble Muggs under his wing to turn the lad’s life around, but Danny, brother of Mary Breslin (whom Tom plans to marry), is also at risk.
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Arrebatos (1998) Jesús Mora, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Documentary
Making-of documentary about Spanish auteur Iván Zulueta’s arthouse cult masterpiece “Arrebato” (1980) by Jesus Mora featuring interviews with cast and crew.
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Buried Alive (1990) Frank Darabont, Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money.
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What a Way to Go! (1964) J. Lee Thompson, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Comedy, Romance
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she’s crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist.
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Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930) Spencer Gordon Bennet, José Bohr, Myrna Loy, Walter Miller, Comedy, Musical, Western
El Malo, notorious Mexican bandit, forces the Mayor of Sierra Blanca, Seth Landport, to open the safe and turn over to him 2,000 pesos, which the bandit gives a promissory note for to the Mayor.
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Orfeu (1999) Carlos Diegues, Toni Garrido, Patrícia França, Murilo Benício, Crime, Drama, Music
In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro’s slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer, and Eurídice, a simple but pretty brunette, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival. A kind of Brazilian Romeo and Juliet, full of samba.
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Julia Misbehaves (1948) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Comedy, Romance
1936. Julia Packett, a London chorus girl, is always in trouble financially, but she always seems to manage to land on her feet by using her feminine wiles to manipulate the men in her life with a smile on her and usually their faces.
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