A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Read More »
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Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse / The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Victor De Santis, Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse, Yvonne Furneaux
The final film in the Dr. Mabuse series is also truly the least of the series. Read More »
A Blonde Dream / Ein blonder Traum (1932) Paul Martin, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Willi Forst
A penniless artiste is distracted from her dreams of Hollywood stardom Read More »
Yoen dokufuden: Hitokiri okatsu (1969) Nobuo Nakagawa, Junko Miyazono, Reiko Ônobuta, Kô Nishimura
Okatsu, the daughter of a katana instructor must avenge a judge who rapes and kills his father. Read More »
An Early Frost (1985) John Erman, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. Read More »
Internes Can’t Take Money (1937) Alfred Santell, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan
In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy Read More »
Romper Stomper (1992) Geoffrey Wright, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Read More »
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken Takakura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara
A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. Read More »
The Strangeness (1985) Melanie Anne Phillips, Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Rolf Theison
A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in Read More »
Fun and Games (1971) Ray Austin, Alexandra Hay, Sandor Elès, Harry Baird
The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school Read More »