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The Man from Acapulco (1973) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. Read More »
It Happened on July 20th (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Drama, History, Thriller, War

A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. Read More »
Tartuffe (1925) F.W. Murnau, Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Drama

Young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance. Read More »
Freak Orlando (1981) Ulrike Ottinger, Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Comedy, Fantasy

In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors Read More »
Hell Bent (1918) John Ford, Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, Neva Gerber, Western

Some strong action and well sustained tension and a great third act, but this mostly a good showcase for Chayenne Harry’s presence Read More »
The Fight for Rome II (1969) Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton, Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Adventure, Drama

Cethegus succeeds in beginning a war involving the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, as well as the Portuguese Empire Read More »
The Fight for Rome I (1968) Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton, Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Adventure, Drama

A Roman noble, Cethegus, attempts to begin a war, putting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, contrary to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian Read More »
Hitlers Hollywood (2017) Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Zarah Leander, Documentary

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed. Read More »
The Big Bus (1976) James Frawley, Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Comedy, Action

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the Oil lobby. Read More »