
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. Read More »
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The Return of Don Camillo (1953) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont

After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Read More »
A Gathering of Eagles (1963) Delbert Mann, Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach

Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander Read More »
Cisco Pike (1972) Bill Norton, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, Gene Hackman

Cisco is an ex-rock star, famous in the 1960s, whose life and career has been a mess because of drugs. Read More »
Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Read More »
Romeo and Juliet (1936) George Cukor, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Drama, Romance

The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Read More »
Jabberwocky (1977) Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Following the passing of his father the young cooper’Dennis Cooper’ goes into city where he must pass a few experiences. Read More »
The Cannibals (1988) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »
The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (1969) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos, Action, Crime, Drama, Western

This movie is the sequel to “God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun” (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the “Blond Devil”), last of the Cangaceiros. Read More »
The Flying Dutchman (1995) Jos Stelling, René Groothof, Veerle Dobbelaere, René van ‘t Hof, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches Read More »