This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist Read More »
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Death Knows No Time (1969) León Klimovsky, Guglielmo Spoletini, Wayde Preston, Agnès Spaak
A Mexican peasant evicted from his land becomes an enraged outlaw. Read More »
The Erl King (1931) Marie-Louise Iribe, Joë Hamman, Mary Costes, Rosa Bertens
A young man races to save his son’s life, but death – incarnated in the child’s imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly. Read More »
The Crossing of the Rhine (1960) André Cayatte, Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. Read More »
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985) Fernando E. Solanas, Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá
In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. Read More »
A City of Sadness (1989) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung Young Chen
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers. Read More »
River of Gold (1998) Paulo Rocha, Isabel Ruth, Lima Duarte, Joana Bárcia
Carolina (Isabel Ruth), an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river Read More »
My Brother’s Wedding (1983) Charles Burnett, Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother Read More »
The Sicilian (1987) Michael Cimino, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland
Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the poor, serf-like peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. Read More »
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) Bille August, Julia Ormond, Ona Fletcher, Agga Olsen
Based on Peter Hoeg’s bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Read More »