
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father’s death. Read More »
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Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys Read More »
Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. Read More »
L.627 (1992) Bertrand Tavernier, Avec Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A police inspector more because he loves it than because it’s his job, Lucien Marquet, 35, nicknamed Lulu, spends his nights and days sniffing out clues that might lead to solving cases. Read More »
Adventure in the Hopfields (1954) John Guillermin, Mandy Miller, Hilda Fenemore, Russell Waters, Adventure, Family

A little girl accidentally breaks her mother’s favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it. Read More »
Summer of 42 (1971) Robert Mulligan, Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. Read More »
Pollyanna (1960) David Swift, Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Drama, Family

A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. Read More »
Rosemarys Baby (1968) Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Drama, Horror

Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. Read More »
Portrait of a Nude Woman (1981) Nino Manfredi, Alberto Lattuada, Eleonora Giorgi, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Comedy, Romance

Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. Read More »
Chatos Land (1972) Michael Winner, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Western

Half-Apache Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) finds himself in a bar fight with a bigoted sheriff and kills the man to save his own life. Read More »
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Drama

Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Read More »
A Woman Without Love (1952) Luis Buñuel, Rosario Granados, Julio Villarreal, Tito Junco, Drama

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Read More »
The Stewardess (2002) Tak-Sam Leong, Sam Lee, San-san Lee, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Keung suffers from a recurring nightmare in which a woman in red chases him down a highway and tries to kill him with a plastic toy jet. Read More »
Ginger and Fred (1986) Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Comedy, Drama

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. Read More »
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009) Manoel de Oliveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória, Drama, Romance

On a train to the Algarve, Macário tells his story to a sympathetic woman he’s just met. Read More »