In Zagreb, the striper Anna de Istria works in a sleazy cabaret. She is seduced by the blonde Cynthia Robins that invites her to move to her house. Read More »
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Komitas (1989) Don Askarian, Samvel Ovasapian, Margarita Woskanjan, Omig Saadetian
The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
The Comedians (1941) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. Read More »
Mission to Hell (1964) Gianfranco Parolini, Paul Hubschmid, Marianne Hold, Brad Harris
Some guys try to locate a evil guy’s secret diamond mine somewhere in Thailand. Read More »
The Dark Eyes of London (1939) Walter Summers, Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt
A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family Read More »
Pour le Mérite (1938) Karl Ritter, Paul Hartmann, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Albert Hehn
This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Read More »
The Deserter (1971) Burt Kennedy, Niksa Fulgosi, Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors
Bitter over his wife’s death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. Read More »
In July (2000) Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus
Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Read More »
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Robert Siodmak, Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can’t seem to catch him, the SS is brought into the case. Read More »