
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families’ descriptions. Read More »
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Quién sabe / A Bullet for the General (1967) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Western

El Chuncho’s bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias’ revolutionaries. Read More »
Malu Tianshi / Street Angel (1937) Muzhi Yuan, Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Comedy, Drama, Musical

In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller. Read More »
Hyènes / Hyenas (1992) Ami Diakhate, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mansour Diouf, Comedy, Drama

A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village’s elders are reduced to selling town possessions to pay debts. Read More »
Éducation sentimentale / Sentimental Education (1962) Alexandre Astruc, Jean-Claude Brialy, Marie-José Nat, Dawn Addams, Drama, Romance, Comedy

Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Read More »
Perceval le Gallois (1978) Éric Rohmer, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger, Drama, Music, Romance, War

The film chronicles Perceval’s knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table Read More »
Nel gorgo del peccato / Eternal Song of Love (1954) Vittorio Cottafavi, Elisa Cegani, Fausto Tozzi, Margot Hielscher

As Cottafavi himself said, “it is a story of love, death and drugs”. Read More »
East Side of Heaven (1939) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance

Singer Denny Martin’s marriage to telephone operator Mary Wilson has been postponed several times already and is delayed once again when he changes jobs from singing telegrams to being a singing cab driver. Read More »
Optimisti / The Optimists (2006) Goran Paskaljevic, Lazar Ristovski, Bojana Novakovic, Petar Bozovic, Drama

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire’s Candide: “Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad.”
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Poulet au vinaigre / Chicken with Vinegar (1985) Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Mystery, Crime, Thriller

When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Read More »