El Gran Calavera a dark comedy directed by Luis Buñuel deals with a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo (Luis Alconira). Read More »
The Dead Mother / La madre muerta (1993) Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Karra Elejalde, Ana Álvarez, Lio, Art-house, Drama, Thriller
Ismael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Read More »
Ulee’s Gold (1997) Victor Nunez, Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Drama
Ulee is called one day by his incarcerated son, Jimmy, asking for a favor. Jimmy will repay his debts if they save his wife, Helen, from hoodlums. Ulee must now risk his and his family’s lives to save Helen.
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The Ballad of Josie (1967) Andrew V. McLaglen, Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Comedy, Western
Starring Doris Day, The Ballad of Josie is a rousing western-comedy about a feisty widow who is determined to make a better life for herself and her young son. Read More »
You’ll Like My Mother (1972) Lamont Johnson, Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was recently killed in action in Vietnam Read More »
The Irish in Us (1935) Lloyd Bacon, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Comedy
The family consists of Pat, the cop, Mike the fireman, Danny the boxing promoter and Ma. Pat wants Danny to get a real job, because most of his fighters end up in Polookaville and Pat wants to marry Lucille. Read More »
Spokój / The Calm (1980) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela, Drama
Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. Read More »
La sorcière / The Sorceress (1956) André Michel, Marina Vlady, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Drama
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to “civilization”, but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
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Personel (1975) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Juliusz Machulski, Irena Lorentowicz, Wlodzimierz Borunski, Drama
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague Read More »
Border Incident (1949) Anthony Mann, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Read More »