We see people in a shopping mall; one man deliberately leaves a backpack behind in the crowd Read More »
Vote for Huggett (1949) Ken Annakin, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river Read More »
Story of a Beloved Wife / Aisai monogatari (1951) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Jûkichi Uno, Ichirô Sugai
Shindo’s directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Read More »
Mr. Poirier’s Son-in-Law / Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Léon Bernard, Annie Ducaux, Jean Debucourt
This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter Read More »
The Forest for the Trees / Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003) Maren Ade, Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann
As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city Read More »
Scissere (1982) Peter Mettler, Anthony Downes, Greg Krantz, Christie MacFadyen
Bruno Scissere, a heroin addict who has been confined to a psychiatric Read More »
Cow Country (1953) Lesley Selander, Edmond O’Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery
A “big” western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander. Read More »
Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987) Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D’Amato, Lara Wendel, Robert Vaughn, Timothy W. Watts
In Louisiana, a soldier returning from Vietnam finds his wife in bed with her lover Read More »
Back Street (1932) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde
A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life. Read More »
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan
Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage Read More »