
On 30 September 1659, the aristocratic British Robinson Crusoe’s ship sinks and he miraculously survives on a deserted island somewhere in South America. Read More »
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Suite Habana (2003) Fernando Pérez, Francisquito Cardet, Francisco Cardet, Norma Pérez, Documentary

Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music. Read More »
The Four Feathers (1978) Don Sharp, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War

In 1882, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the insurgent Arab tribes, British Lieutenant Faversham resigns his officer’s commission in order to remain with his fiancée Ethne in England. Read More »
The Song of Songs (1933) Rouben Mamoulian, Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Drama, Romance

Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Read More »
The Beginning and the End (1993) Arturo Ripstein, Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Drama

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father’s death. Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys Read More »
Three Cases of Murder (1955) David Eady, George More O’Ferrall, Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Fantasy

Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Read More »
Pollyanna (1960) David Swift, Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Drama, Family

A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. Read More »
A Woman Without Love (1952) Luis Buñuel, Rosario Granados, Julio Villarreal, Tito Junco, Drama

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Read More »
Big Trouble (1986) John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D’Angelo, Comedy

Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn’t making things any easier. Read More »