
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she’ll use Millie, an aging French star. Read More »
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Hollow Reed (1996) Angela Pope, Sam Bould, Martin Donovan, Ian Hart

Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality Read More »
Can-Can (1960) Walter Lang, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Read More »
The Outskirts (1998) Pyotr Lutsik, Yuriy Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksei Pushkin

The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted Read More »
The Vampire Family (1990) Gennadiy Klimov, Igor Shavlak, Yelena Karadzhova, Yuriy Katin-Yartsev, Nikolay Kochegarov

A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Read More »
The Hunley (1999) John Gray, Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings

During the siege of Charleston of 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submersible to sink an enemy warship in wartime. Read More »
Ten Little Indians (1959) Paul Bogart, Philip F. Falcone, Leo Farrenkopf, Nina Foch, Barry Jones, Romney Brent

Agatha Christie mystery in which one of ten suspects in an isolated island mansion is a killer. Who is It? Read More »
Winter Cherries (1985) Igor Maslennikov, Elena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family. Read More »
Going Home / Oeroeg (1993) Hans Hylkema, Jeroen Krabbé, Rik Launspach, Martin Schwab

A white Dutch boy and the son of an Indonesian servant grow up together. Later on, their lifes take different paths. Read More »
Retour à Kotelnitch (2003) Emmanuel Carrère

Kotelnitch is a small town 800 km east of Moscow. The author went on the trail of a Hungarian prisoner Read More »