In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy (‘Chris Parker’)whose Father is not around Read More »
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The Garden of Eden AKA Eden no sono (1980) Yasuzô Masumura, Ronni Valente, Leonora Fani, Angela Goodwin
A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. Read More »
Au royaume des cieux AKA The Sinners (1949) Julien Duvivier, Serge Reggiani, Jean Davy, Monique Mélinand
Story takes place in a dreadful girls’ reformatory. Read More »
Parade of Wives (1974) Kwon-taek Im, Hee-ra Kim, Mi-ra Yu, Yang-ha Yun
A newlywed wife, Ji-sun moves to her husband’s village in a rural area called Sambatgol Read More »
Portland Street Blues (1998) Wai Man Yip, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng, Kristy Yang, Alex Fong
Following Sister Thirteen, from her teenage years, her bisexual love life Read More »
A Fine, Windy Day (1980) Jang-ho Lee, Sung-kee Ahn, Seong-chan Kim, Yeong-ho Lee
The lives of three young working-class male friends are followed in the film. Read More »
The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975) Vladimir Motyl, Irina Kupchenko, Aleksey Batalov, Natalya Bondarchuk
On December 14, 1825 the military units of the Russian army were supposed to swear their allegiance to the new czar, Nicholas I. Read More »
The Petrified Forest (1973) Masahiro Shinoda, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »
The Life of Chikuzan (1977) Kaneto Shindô, Ryûzô Hayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Baishô
Chikuzan Takahashi, in his late sixties at the time of filming, is a blind musician who has spent most of his life on the roads of Northern Japan Read More »
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) Robert Mulligan, Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Don Murray
With her infant daughter Margaret Rose in tow, Georgette Thomas pulls up stakes from Tyler, Texas to head to Columbus Read More »
Simon of the Desert (1965) Luis Buñuel, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The ascetic Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal Read More »
Till We Meet Again (1950) Tadashi Imai, Yoshiko Kuga, Eiji Okada, Osamu Takizawa, Drama, History
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of the war separates them. Read More »
Did You See the Barefoot God? (1986) Soo-Kil Kim, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Gen Kodama, Yoriko Dôguchi, Drama
In a small backwater in Northern Japan, self-assured Shigeru and shy Shinji are best friends since childhood. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
Soul to Soul (1971) Denis Sanders, Willie Bobo, Roberta Flack, Eddie Harris, Documentary, Music
Footage of a concert held in Ghana to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the independence of that country. Read More »