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Magnificent Obsession (1935) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Drama, Romance

The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once Read More »
Tender Comrade (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Drama, Romance

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. Read More »
Serzanta Lapina atgriesanas / Return of Sergeant Lapins (2010) Gatis Smits, Baiba Broka, Vilis Daudzins, Gatis Gaga, Comedy, Drama

The film is set in Riga, where sergeant Krists Lapins returns from an international mission and moves into a remote flat in the city’s suburb. Read More »
Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni / Somewhere Beneath The Wide Sky (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Hideko Takamine, Drama

A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems. Read More »
Hong quan xiao zi / Disciples of Shaolin (1975) Cheh Chang, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ming Li Chen, Action, Drama

Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill. Read More »
Saigo no tokkôtai / The Last Kamikaze (1970) Jun’ya Satô, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Drama, War

Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) is set in the final months of World War II, when it was increasingly obvious that Japan was going to lose the war. Read More »
Nuummioq (2009) Torben Bech, Otto Rosing, Lars Rosing, Angunnguaq Larsen, Julie Berthelsen, Drama, Romance

Nuummioq tells the story of a young man’s odyssey from mundane existence into an acute sense of the sacred. Read More »
La torre de los siete jorobados / Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944) Edgar Neville, Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

In the Madrid of the 19th century a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number where the ball is going to fall. Read More »
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) Terence Fisher, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Horror

In Spain, Leon is born on Christmas day to a mute servant girl who was raped by a beggar. His mother dies giving birth and he is looked after by Don Alfredo. Read More »
The Greatest (1977) Tom Gries, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Biography, Drama, Sport

Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. Read More »
Afsporet / Derailed (1942) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen, Illona Wieselmann, Ebbe Rode, Poul Reumert, Crime, Drama, Romance, Film-Noir

“Afsporet” (Derailed) focuses on the intense erotic relationship between a rich woman suffering from amnesia and petty thief on probation entangled with organized crime. Read More »
Ondt blod / The Bad Seeds (1996) Carsten Fromberg, Thomas Bo Larsen, Jens Okking, Anders Nyborg, Drama

Policeman Lasse rehabilitates young prisoners by taking them on survival course in the Swedish wasteland. And before he has to retire due to illness, he arranges one last trip. Read More »
Münchhausen / The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943) Josef von Báky, Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice Read More »
La antena / The Aerial (2007) Esteban Sapir, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Valeria Bertuccelli, Julieta Cardinali, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

This near-silent black and white film from Argentina tells the story of a city that has lost its voice, stolen by Mr. TV, and the attempts of a small family to win the voice back. Read More »