1941-1950

After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.Read More »

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.Read More »

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Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. Chaplin is a twentieth-century bluebeard, an enigmatic family man who goes to extreme lengths to support his wife and child, attempting to bump off a series of wealthy widows (including one played by the indefatigable Martha Raye, in a hilarious performance). This deeply philosophical and wildly entertaining film is a work of true sophistication, both for the moral questions it dares to ask and for the way it deconstructs its megastar’s lovable on-screen persona.Read More »

Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.Read More »

This is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.Read More »

Joji Kawai was an engineer at an electric company. He was a serious and well-behaved man by nature, and was nicknamed “Kimiko” at work. He had one ideal in mind when it came to women. In order to fulfill this ideal, he took in a beautiful young woman named Naomi, who was working at a café in the middle of nowhere, and took care of her as if she were his sister or daughter. However, his unbalanced love and education resulted in Naomi growing up to be an arrogant woman. By the time Joji realized this, it was already too late…Read More »

The film is about the fate of the famous Soviet aviator Chkalov, who in mid 30’es made with his crew the first nonstop flight from Moscow to the Far East, covering over 9000 kilometers and later made the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Moscow to the USA across the North Pole.Read More »

Karin (Gunn Wallgren) is a young servant girl on a Swedish farm. She has a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality: her better side enjoys all the human emotions of love, kindness, and romance, while the evil being within her is controlled by the Devil (Stig Jarrel) to bring revenge and destruction upon a farmer and his family.Read More »

Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.Read More »