A bored teenage girl decides to become a groupie to meet rock stars, joining Opal Butterfly on the road. Read More »
Miss Bonaparte (1942) Maurice Tourneur
Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III. Read More »
Rumpelstiltskin (1955) Rumpelstilzchen
A goblin helps a miller’s daughter spin straw into gold, asking in return for her first child, in this amusing ‘teaching play’ about greed, envy and helpfulness. Read More »
The Less Fortunate Return of Josef Katusz to the Land of Rembrandt (1966)
Emblematic Dutch New Wave entry: A youth returning from Paris deals in drugs and participates in rebel street demonstrations by the anarchic Provo guerillas. Read More »
Strange Cargo (1940) Frank Borzage
Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. Read More »
A Rather Complicated Girl (1969)
This erotic sexploitation feature concerns a couple and their pursuit of sexual fulfillment with each other – and their mutually agreed upon third bed guests. Read More »
The World Will Shake (1939) Le Monde tremblera
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Read More »
The Best of Youth (2003) La Meglio Gioventu
Nicola and Matteo Carati are two brothers of Rome, who live the years from 1966 to 2000 and all the events which have signed this period. Read More »
Appointment with Venus (1951) Ralph Thomas
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can’t prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. Read More »
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958) Afrodite, dea dell’amore
Year 67 A.D. the ruler of Corinth is a fan of Nero. Fails to set fire to his hometown, dedicated to the worship of Aphrodite, goddess of love Read More »