The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy Read More »
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Upstream (1927) John Ford, Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers
Among the residents of a theatrical boarding house is the last member of a once great acting family, down on his luck. Read More »
Tanganyika (1954) André De Toth, Van Heflin, Ruth Roman, Howard Duff
In 1903 Kenya, tough colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken Read More »
Dimka AKA Ya kupil papu (1963) Ilya Frez, Aleksei Zagorsky, Olga Lysenko, Vladimir Treshchalov
It’s the story of a boy named Dimka (Alyosha Zagorsky), the young son of a lovely young widowed woman (Olga Lysenko) who is taking work as a typist. Read More »
Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading Read More »
The Europeans (1979) James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe Read More »
The Hamburg Cell (2004) Antonia Bird, Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Read More »
Heat (1972) Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Joey, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent Read More »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
On the Line (1984) José Luis Borau, David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril
A Border Patrol Agent is determined to catch his old nemesis Read More »