The Criterion Channel writes:
The first of three film adaptations Universal made of Fannie Hurst’s tear-jerking novel chronicles the fate-battered relationship of Ray (Irene Dunne) and Walter (John Boles), two star-crossed lovers seemingly thwarted from being together by circumstances and time. Tracing their relationship across decades—as the married Walter ascends to prominence as a wealthy financier while Ray remains in the background as the perpetual “other woman”—BACK STREET offers a beautifully restrained and deeply affecting vision of self-sacrifice in the name of love.
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Adapted from Rod Serling’s celebrated teleplay, this fight-film classic stars Anthony Quinn as Mountain Rivera, a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick (Jackie Gleason), schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army (Mickey Rooney), oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.Read More »

“The past is an animal that can’t be tamed…”

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Mariana (42) is part of that Chilean upper class that takes privilege for granted. Despised by both her father and her husband, she feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan (60), a former colonel suspected of human rights abuses during the dictatorship.Read More »

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Year 1573. Nobleman and Calvinist Sieniawski interrupts the baptism of another child of the Catholic Bielecki family. The godfather, young nobleman Jan Bielecki, swears revenge on the Calvinist. He sets out for King Sigismund Augustus, but when he reaches his court, the king dies. The new ruler, Henry Valois, provides his subjects with religious freedom. Bielecki and other Catholics feel betrayed by the king. There is a pogrom against followers of other religions.Read More »

ynopsis wrote:
Kidnapped by some fake policemen, young Richard Werner is taken to the headquarters of Fantabulous Inc. on the outskirts of Geneva and transformed into a Superman, F. 17. Professor Beethoven, owner of Fantabulous, initiates negotiations to sell his superman to the great powers, but as F. 17 accidentally sees Deborah, his girlfriend, again, something scrambles in his brain, blowing up the electronic devices embedded in it so that he regains all his normal faculties. As military troops converge on Fantabulous to seize him, F 17, back to being Richard again, succeeds in destroying the electronic brain that guided his movements so as to prevent Professor Beethoven’s scientists from creating any more monstrous dehumanized beings.Read More »

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This film is an adaptation of the historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.Read More »

A CIA agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.Read More »

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The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.Read More »

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Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original and get paid both ways. To find an artist, they pick the young, beautiful, naive Anna. When Anna has doubts, Sam strings her along and then marries her and go to Sicily on their honeymoon. Anna finds out that Sam is a thief and is very disappointed. Felix finds out that Sam has the original and is out to get it. The police are also waiting along with the buyer that Sam has for the painting.Read More »