Rich oriental lord Cassim’s cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave Read More »
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Stigma (1982) Pavlos Tasios
A young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down Syndrome. Read More »
Mother AKA Haha (1963) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Homizu Aratani
Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. Read More »
Beyond Oblivion AKA Más allá del olvido (1956) Hugo del Carril, Laura Hidalgo, Pedro Laxalt
A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease. Read More »
Comedians AKA Cómicos (1954) Juan Antonio Bardem, Elisa Galvé, Fernando Rey, Emma Penella
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, performs only small roles Read More »
Samurai Saga AKA Aru kengo no shogai (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. Read More »
The Betrayer AKA Vanina Vanini (1961) Roberto Rossellini, Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot Read More »
Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye
How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Read More »
Mouchette (1967) Robert Bresson, Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal
Mouchette is a young girl living in the country. Her mother is dying and her father does not take care of her. Read More »
Before I Hang (1940) Nick Grinde, Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals’ blood Read More »