Synopsis: A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.Read More »
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.Read More »
A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.Read More »
The tragedy of the death of Empedocles, philosopher in Ancient Greece. Hölderlin’s work adapted to cinema by Straub and Huillet.Read More »
Synopsis: A talented but irresponsible violinist ruins his marriage with his drinking and antisocial behaviour.Read More »
The North Star (also known as Armored Attack in the US) is a 1943 pro-resistance war film starring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim It was produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Lillian Hellman and featured production design by William Cameron Menzies. The music was written by Aaron Copland, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and the cinematography by James Wong Howe. The film also marked the debut of Farley Granger.
The film is about the resistance of Ukrainian villagers, through guerrilla tactics, against the German invaders of the Ukrainian SSR. The film is considered to be pro-Soviet propaganda at the height of the war.Read More »
FOR THOSE WHO WANTS TO SEE REAL, BEAUTIFULL, NON-ENCAGING MENTAL HEALTH EXPERIENCE
The clinic was founded by Jean Oury, a psychiatrist who previously worked in experimental therapy at Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital. The psychiatric practice borrowed the idea of Hermann Simon that it is necessary to look after the establishment and to look after each patient, while returning initiative and responsibility to them by developing situations in which they can work and express their creativity.Read More »
Georges “Jojo” Castagnier is an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section of Paris. He ran away from home when he realized that his stepmother hates him. Among Jojo’s many neighbors is the object of his affection, gorgeous nightclub dancer Jenny Dorr. But, to Jojo’s disappointment, Jenny becomes the lover of former boxer Dicky, who spends his time loafing about the Pigalle cafés.Read More »
Very rare. Fedor Hanzekovic’s comedy drama “Master of His Own Body” (1957) is certainly one of the audience’s most loved Croatian films made in the fifties. Based on a short story written by Slavko Kolar.
Plot:
Due to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father’s demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.Read More »