Larry Darrell returns from the battlefields of World War I to America a different person. Read More »
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From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò”, taken from classical mythology. Read More »
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) Kenneth Bowser, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich
Based upon Peter Biskind’s book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers Read More »
Widows’ Peak (1994) John Irvin, Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson
In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows’ Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Read More »
Journey of Honor (1991) Gordon Hessler, Shô Kosugi, David Essex, Kane Kosugi
In the seventeenth century, Japan is divided between two forces. Read More »
Mad Cows (1999) Sara Sugarman, Anna Friel, Joanna Lumley, Anna Massey
A single mother’s postnatal state leads her on a race to save her child and her sanity. Read More »
What a Whopper (1961) Gilbert Gunn, Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. Read More »
Flag Day (2021) Sean Penn, Mitchell McCormick, Tom Anniko, Dylan Penn
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter. Read More »
The Silver Darlings (1947) Clarence Elder, Norman Williams, Christopher Capon, Murdo Morrison
A harsh if ultimately optimistic depiction of life in the unforgiving Hebrides Read More »
Trottie True (1949) Brian Desmond Hurst, Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair
In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. Read More »