A Walk with Love and Death
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France’s Hundred Years’ War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the pretty aristocrat Lady Claudia,…
The Red Badge of Courage
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane’s novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love…
The Roots of Heaven
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining “roots of Heaven.” At…
Wise Blood
A Southerner–young, poor, ambitious but uneducated–determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his…
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
In 1944, in South Pacific, the castaway Marine Corporal Allison drifts in a raft to the Tuasiva Island, where he meets Sister Angela. She tells him that she is the…
Freud: The Secret Passion
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients,…
On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day’s roving…
Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British…
The Night of the Iguana
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
The Kremlin Letter
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter…
In This Our Life
A young woman dumps her fiancée and runs off with her sister’s husband. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home…
Moulin Rouge
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The List of Adrian Messenger
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking…
The Bible: In the Beginning…
Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Covers Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood and Abraham and Isaac.
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his…
Annie
An orphan at a centre run by the expression Miss Hannigan, Annie considers that her parents abandoned her there by error. Every time a wealthy guy called Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks…
The Man Who Would Be King
A strong journey about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as “godlike” rulers, assembly a tragic finish via their need for a local lady. Based mostly on a…
Fat City
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Weird story of sex, desperation, and perversion in a army article.
The Misfits
While submitting for a divorce, amazing ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up fulfilling aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two guys immediately become infatuated…
The Unforgiven
The neighbors of a frontier household activate them when it’s suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the native Kiawa tribe.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama movie directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based mostly partly on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was…
Moby Dick
In 1841, younger Ishmael indicators up for service overseas the Pequod, a whaler crusing out of New Bedford. The ship is beneath the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian…
The African Queen
In the beginning of the First World War, at the center of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to move down river along…
The Asphalt Jungle
Lately paroled from jail, mythical thief “Doc” Riedenschneider, together with funds in Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked attorney, collects a small number of veteran offenders jointly in the Midwest to get…
Key Largo
The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes a situation that calls him with three bizarre offenders, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.