An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Read More »
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Suite 16 (1994) Dominique Deruddere, Pete Postlethwaite, Antonie Kamerling, Géraldine Pailhas
Glover is a shadow of the man he was. Once a handsome playboy, he is now confined to the luxurious prison Read More »
Wild Geese II (1985) Peter R. Hunt, Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. Read More »
Up at the Villa (2000) Philip Haas
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this tale of death, seduction, blackmail Read More »
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. Read More »
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Ang Lee, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage Read More »
Evdokia (1971) Alexis Damianos, Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou
A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Read More »
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Read More »
Alice AKA Alicja (1982) Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza, Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. Read More »
Testament (1988) John Akomfrah, Tania Rogers, Evans Oma Hunter, Frank Parkes
In Testament, the condition of the postcolony is embodied in the figure of activist turned television reporter Abena Read More »