William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century Read More »
Sword of Fury AKA Miyamoto Musashi (1973) Tai Katô, Jirô Tamiya, Keiko Matsuzaka, Mitsuko Baishô
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war Read More »
The Blood of Heroes (1989) David Webb Peoples, Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo
A post-apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal, futuristic game resembling football. Read More »
Outland (1981) Peter Hyams, Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle
Marshal O’Niel’s assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. Read More »
The Music AKA La musica (1967) Marguerite Duras, Paul Seban, Delphine Seyrig, Robert Hossein, Julie Dassin
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation Read More »
Tender Moment AKA La leçon particulière (1968) Michel Boisrond, Nathalie Delon, Renaud Verley, Katia Christine
Olivier, a seventeen-year-old high school student, is a good-looking young man Read More »
Blueprint for Robbery (1961) Jerry Hopper, J. Pat O’Malley, Robert J. Wilke, Robert Gist
A gang plots the robbery of an armored-car company headquarters. Read More »
What Price Hollywood? (1932) George Cukor, Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton
Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey and is soon in the big-time. Read More »
The King of Wild Horses (1924) Fred Jackman, Charley Chase, Rex the Wonder Horse, Edna Murphy
A stallion known as “The Black” is the leader of a band of wild horses. Read More »
The Satan Bug (1965) John Sturges, George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis
A germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the nasty germs has gotten free and killed several scientists. Read More »
Leave of Absence (1994) Tom McLoughlin, Brian Dennehy, Jacqueline Bisset, Blythe Danner
When a married man’s mistress falls seriously ill, he must make the toughest choice of his life. Read More »
The River with No Bridge AKA Hashi no nai Kawa (1992) Yôichi Higashi, Naoko Ôtani, Tamao Nakamura, Tetta Sugimoto
Though ethnically and culturally identical to the average Japanese, the burakumin have been an underclass in Japanese society Read More »
I Am Guilty AKA Falscher Bekenner (2005) Christoph Hochhäusler, Constantin von Jascheroff, Manfred Zapatka, Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. Read More »
Dino (1957) Thomas Carr, Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner
A rebellious young man, just released from reform school, returns home only to come into conflict with his father. Read More »
Desire (1936) Frank Borzage, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain Read More »