The year is 1506 and Duke of Riveria y Fuentes has been sent to Rome by King Philippe Read More »
Tora-san 16 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Katsushika risshi hen (1975) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Fumie Kashiyama
Tora-san returns to his family’s shop in Shibamata, Tokyo to find himself accused Read More »
Tora-san 15 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro aiaigasa (1975) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Ruriko Asaoka
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Nissim dit Max (2004) Pierre Léon, Vladimir Léon, Jacques Rossi, Marina Vlady
Two brothers ask their father about his communist years, then their mother, and sister. Read More »
The Emperor’s Nightingale / Cisaruv slavík (1949) Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec, Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »
The Night Before Christmas / Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) Aleksandr Rou, Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov
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Caligula Reincarnated As Nero / Nerone e Poppea (1982) Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia, Piotr Stanislas, Françoise Blanchard, Patricia Derek
History tells us that Nero was the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. Read More »
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) Terence Fisher, Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank
In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate Read More »
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979) Joseph Pevney, Steven Keats, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jayne Kennedy
Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. Read More »
Twelve Chairs / Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva
In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »