The 1920’s and 30’s career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival Read More »
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Road to Life AKA Putyovka v zhizn (1931) Nikolai Ekk, Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. Read More »
Trial on the Road (1986) Aleksey German, Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Russia in WWII. Read More »
Heart of a Dog AKA Sobache serdtse (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »
War-Time Romance (1983) Voenno-polevoy roman
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer Read More »
Unhook the Stars (1996) Nick Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu
Mildred is a widow who discovers a whole new world when her grown children move away. Read More »
Among Grey Stones AKA Sredi serykh kamney (1983) Kira Muratova, Igor Sharapov, Oksana Shlapak, Stanislav Govorukhin
This film is based on a short story of Vladimir Korolenko, Russian (born in Ukrainia) writer. Read More »
The Mysterious Island AKA La isla misteriosa (1973) Juan Antonio Bardem, Henri Colpi, Omar Sharif, Ambroise Bia, Jess Hahn
A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. Read More »
The Stepford Wives (1975) Bryan Forbes, Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson
The Stepford Wives is about a small suburb where the women happily go about their housework Read More »
Rush (1991) Lili Fini Zanuck, Jason Patric
Raynor is an undercover narcotics cop. For his next assignment he chooses the more inexperienced but tough and good-looking Kristen. Read More »