A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas Read More »
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White Nights (1985) Taylor Hackford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Drama
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. Read More »
Molchi, grust… molchi / Be Silent, Sorrow, Be Silent (1918) Pyotr Chardynin, Konstantin Khokhlov, Vera Kholodnaya, Drama
Pola performs in a circus double act of music and clowning with her husband Lorio. Read More »
The Idiot (1958) Ivan Pyrev, Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny, Drama
Upon Prince Myshkin’s return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. Read More »
Deti Veka / Children Of The Age (1915) Yevgeni Bauer, Arsenii Bibikov, V. Glinskaya, Ivan Gorskij, Drama
The picture tells the story of Maria (Vera Kholodnaya), a devoted wife of a bank employee. Read More »
War Arrow (1953) George Sherman, Maureen O’Hara, Jeff Chandler, John McIntire, Romance, War, Western
Major Howell Brady and two non-coms are assigned to go to Indian territory and recruit peaceful Seminoles relocated from Florida to aid the army in fighting the larger, rampaging Kiowa tribe. Read More »
Manderlay (2005) Lars von Trier, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Drama
After gangster Mulligan’s cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled Read More »
Priyatel pokoynika / Friend of the Deceased (1997) Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Comedy, Drama
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Read More »
Kidnapning / The Kidnapping (1982) Sven Methling, Michael Nezer, Jesper Lund, Tobias Fog, Comedy, Family
Three young brothers decide with their uncle to become criminals and kidnap the son of a wealthy man. This film is based on a story by Bjarne Reuter.
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The Molly Maguires (1970) Martin Ritt, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Drama, History
Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. Read More »