
Remy Marco, Prohibition beer baron, figures he’ll do even better after repeal. Only trouble is, his beer tastes terrible. Read More »
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It Should Happen to You! (1954) George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford

Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. Read More »
Night Flight (1933) Clarence Brown

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there’s only one way to get the medicine Read More »
The Eye Above the Well AKA Het oog boven de put (1988) Johan van der Keuken

A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. Read More »
Amsterdam Global Village (1996) Johan van der Keuken, Julika Marijn

“I am far away on a distant journey through my own city”, filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. Read More »
El bonaerense (2002) Pablo Trapero, Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy

Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. Read More »
Time of Love / Nobat e Asheghi (1995) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar

Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. Read More »
Hassan and Nayima AKA Hasan wa Naimah (1959) Henry Barakat, Muharram Fuad, Suad Husni, Mohammed Tawfik

Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt

King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Morphine AKA Morfiy (2008) Aleksey Balabanov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. Read More »