May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Read More »
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Son of Sinbad (1955) Ted Tetzlaff, Dale Robertson, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. Read More »
Taxi Blues (1990) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Comedy, Drama
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Read More »
Tsar / Tzar (2009) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Ramilya Iskander, Drama, History
TSAR, French poster art, Pyotr Mamonov as Ivan the Terrible, 2009. ph: Alexandra Morozova/©Rezo
In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
Telets / Taurus (2001) Aleksandr Sokurov, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Drama
The second in Alexander Sokurov’s teratology of films concerning twentieth century dictators, Taurus is a poetic and partially factual film of the last days of Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Ulyanov ‘Lenin’. Read More »
The Island at the Top of the World (1974) Robert Stevenson, David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. Read More »
Madron (1970) Jerry Hopper, Richard Boone, Leslie Caron, Gabi Amrani, Western
U samogo sinego morya / By the Bluest of Seas (1936) Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin, Alexei Dolinin, Sergey Komarov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Drama, Musical, Romance
Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. Read More »
Pikunikku / Picnic (1996) Shunji Iwai, Chara, Tadanobu Asano, Koichi Hashizume, Drama, Fantasy
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Read More »