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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 »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova

For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
The Anatomy of Love AKA Tempi nostri – Zibaldone n. 2 (1954) Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot, Vittorio De Sica, Dany Robin, François Périer

A five-part compilation film. in “The Baby,” a poverty-ridden couple with children decides Read More »
Play Misty for Me (1971) Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills

Disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) attracts the amorous attentions of a demented fan named Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter). Read More »
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet AKA La danse (2009) Frederick Wiseman

The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets Read More »
Hellfire (1949) R.G. Springsteen, Bill Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker

Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him Read More »
The Sea Hawk (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains

Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. Read More »
Greenery Will Bloom Again / Torneranno i prati (2014)

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. Read More »
House of Ricordi AKA Casa Ricordi (1954) Carmine Gallone, Roland Alexandre, Myriam Bru, Elisa Cegani

The story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all of Italy. Read More »
The Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Norman Jewison, Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka Read More »
The Blood AKA O Sangue (1989) Pedro Costa, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. Read More »
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Robert Wise, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane

The abuse Rocky Barbella endures at the hand of his father and subsequent run-ins with the law lead him in Read More »
The Wishing Tree AKA Natvris khe (1976) Tengiz Abuladze, Lika Kavzharadze, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili

This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams… Read More »
The Chess of the Wind AKA Shatranj-e baad (1976) Mohammad Reza Aslani, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Shahram Golchin, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz

The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance. Read More »