
Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province’s notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. Read More »
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Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) / Not for, or Against (Quite the Contrary) (2003) Cédric Klapisch, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Simon Abkarian, Crime, Drama

“Ni Pour, Ni Contre” tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. Read More »
Le voyage du ballon rouge / Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Drama, Family

In Paris, Chinese cinema student Song Fang is hired to work as the nanny of Simon by his divorced mother Suzanne, who works voicing marionettes in a theater. Read More »
A Bronx Tale (1993) Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Crime, Drama

Gangster Sonny is the big man in the Bronx neighborhood of an Italian small boy named Calogero. Read More »
Yankee Buccaneer (1952) Frederick De Cordova, Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Adventure, History, Romance

A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas Read More »
Man of La Mancha (1972) Arthur Hiller, Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Drama, Fantasy, Musical

This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Read More »
Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Read More »
Stalag 17 (1953) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Drama, War

One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Read More »
Kizzu ritân / Kids Return (1996) Takeshi Kitano, Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto, Crime, Drama, Sport

Two buddies visit the schoolyard of the high school they used to attend, and remember their young and dumb days. They used to be the bullies in the school, until they find their own ways of life; one as a boxer, and the other as a member of the yakuza.
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Les aventures d’Arsène Lupin / The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957) Jacques Becker, Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, O.E. Hasse, Crime, Mystery

Arsène Lupin, the multifaceted gentleman thief, steals two masterpieces from the President of the Council. Read More »
Das Versprechen / The Promise (1995) Margarethe von Trotta, Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Romance, Drama

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. Read More »
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) Milos Forman, Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. Read More »
Sapphire (1959) Basil Dearden, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. Read More »
Genji monogatari / The Tale of Genji (1951) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiyo Kogure, Machiko Kyô, Drama

Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks Read More »
Vredens dag / Day of Wrath (1943) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Drama

In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft. In the shadow of her flight, capture, confession, and burning at the stake, the young wife of the town’s aging pastor falls in love with the pastor’s son. Read More »