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  • Henry King – In Old Chicago (1937)

    USA1931-1940ActionDramaHenry King

    Storyline
    In 1854, the patriarch Patrick O’Leary of the O’Leary family dies in an accident nearby Chicago while traveling amid-western prairie. His wife Molly O’Leary raises her three sons alone working as laundress. Her son Jack becomes an idealistic lawyer; Dion is a gambler; and Bob helps his mother in the laundry business and marries local Gretchen (June Storey) in the old area known as The Patch. Dion meets the singer Belle Fawcett in the cabaret owned by Gil Warren and they fall in love with each other and become lovers. They also open a business of their own to compete with Gil that becomes their enemy. However Gil invites Dion to join the politics with him but Dion plots a scheme with tragic consequences.Read More »

  • Yen-Ping Chu – Hong fen bing tuan AKA Golden Queen’s Commando (1982)

    1981-1990ActionCrimeTaiwanYen-ping Chu

    A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.Read More »

  • Pierre Koralnik – Cannabis (1970)

    1961-1970ActionCultFrancePierre Koralnik

    Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers in , he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of Frrench drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane’s. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse…Read More »

  • Budd Boetticher – The Magnificent Matador (1955)

    1951-1960ActionBudd BoetticherDramaUSA

    Quote:
    Maureen O’Hara as the spoiled, rich, American preditor who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos (Anthony Quinn) who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the “alternativa” of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter (Manuel Rojas). The mystery is solved 94 minutes later, after Maureen has conquered Tony and Tony has saved Marueen’s life by caping a toro bravo with his plaid horse blanket.Read More »

  • David Wu – Bai fa mo nu zhuan II AKA The Bride with White Hair 2 (1994)

    1991-2000ActionDavid WuFantasyHong Kong

    imdb:
    On Kit and Lyre’s wedding night, Lien Ni-Chang, the bride with white hair kidnaps Lyre and takes her to her harem of fighting women to indoctrinate her against Kit. Kit tries to lead a rescue party and go up against the formidable enemies.Read More »

  • Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Shin kurama tengu AKA New Tengu from Mount Kurama (1965)

    1961-1970ActionDramaJapanKimiyoshi Yasuda

    Synopsis:
    The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi squad, who are chasing them.Read More »

  • Nikos Foskolos – Exodos kindynou AKA Emergency Exit (1980)

    1971-1980ActionCrimeGreeceNikos Foskolos

    Quote:
    Daisy Alexiou is a very conscientious traffic controlling police officer who happens to be near the scene of a bank robbery and manages to save police Captain Marcos Angelou’s life as well as chase the fleeing robber. For she’s brave and altruistic (let alone beautiful), she’s made police Lieutenant overnight and joins the newly formed Women’s Department in the Hellenic Police Force. She especially asks for a position in the Narcotics Prosecution Bureau and she has her reasons for doing so.Read More »

  • Anthony Neilson –  Debt Collector (1999)

    1991-2000ActionAnthony NeilsonCrimeUnited Kingdom

    Edinburgh cop Gary Keltie pursues violent 1970s debt collector Nickie Dryden, seeking revenge for his brutal crimes against locals. Their conflict escalates into a final violent confrontation on the city streets.Read More »

  • Takao Okawara – Yukai AKA Abduction (1997)

    Drama1991-2000ActionJapanTakao Okawara

    letterboxd wrote:
    The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective – who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process – isn’t sure who are the victims and who are the villains.Read More »

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