• Charles Lane – Sidewalk Stories (1989)

    1981-1990Charles LaneComedySilentUSA

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    A 1989 American low-budget, nearly silent movie directed by and starring Charles Lane. The film was shot in black and white and tells the story of a young African American man raising a small child after her father is murdered. The film is inspired by “Tiger Bay“ (1959) and partly Charlie Chaplin`s 1921 feature “The Kid“. The film was televised by PBS as well as saw limited exposure on VHS and cable television in the 1990sRead More »

  • Antoine Barraud – Madeleine Collins (2021)

    2021-2030Antoine BarraudDramaFranceThriller

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    Judith leads a double life: two lovers, two sons in France and one daughter in Switzerland. Entangled in secrets and lies, her lives begin to shatter.Read More »

  • Blake Edwards – Darling Lili (1970)

    Drama1961-1970Blake EdwardsMusicalUSAWorld War One

    Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film.

    Set during World War I, it centers on Lili Smith, a popular British music hall performer who is regarded as a femme fatale. She’s actually a German spy, and the uncle she dotes upon is really Col. Kurt Von Ruger, a fellow espionage agent and her contact for the Huns. In hopes of gaining valuable information, Lili begins using her feminine wiles on Maj. William Larrabee, a top American pilot. However, Lili soon discovers that she’s falling in love with Larrabee and can’t find the courage to betray him, and when Larrabee discovers Lili’s secret, he refuses to turn her in.Read More »

  • Víctor Iriarte – Sobre todo de noche AKA Foremost by Night (2023)

    2021-2030DramaSpainVíctor Iriarte

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    Exploring the issue of stolen children in Spain, the plot tracks Vera’s search for her biological son, given in adoption, thereby coming across Cora and her adoptive son Egoz.Read More »

  • Frederick Wiseman – Racetrack (1986)

    1981-1990DocumentaryFrederick WisemanUSA

    Synopsis:
    RACETRACK is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading race tracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses. Everyday occurrences are shown: in the backstretch — the grooming, feeding, shoeing, and caring for horses and the preparation for races; at the practice track the various aspects of training, exercising, and timing the horses; at the paddock — the pre-race presentation of the horses; and in the grandstand — betting and watching the races. The film also has sequences showing the variety of work done by trainers, jockeys, jockey agents, grooms, hot walkers, stable hands, and veterinarians.Read More »

  • Yan Vizinberg – The Unfinished Time: Russia in the 90s (2024)

    Documentary2021-2030PoliticsRussiaYan Vizinberg

    From the collapse of the Soviet Union to Putin’s rule: how Russia became free and what it did with this freedom. The story of Boris Yeltsin and his times, told by his comrades, family, friends, and foes.

    S1.E1 ∙ The Awakening

    The young General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to reform the decrepit regime, inadvertently launching a chain reaction of events that the Soviet government quickly becomes unable to control. A new leader is born from the turmoil of perestroika: Boris Yeltsin becomes the spearhead of democratic forces, and Gorbachev soon begins perceiving him as a threat.Read More »

  • Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Nishizumi senshacho-den AKA The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi (1940)

    1931-1940DramaJapanKôzaburô YoshimuraWar

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    Story of a young man as an individual and as a family man told through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China. Based on a true story of the Sino-Japanese war involving Japanese war hero Kojirō Nishizumi.Read More »

  • Nicolás Echevarría – Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

    1991-2000AdventureMexicoNicolás Echevarría

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    An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.Read More »

  • Zbynek Brynych – Souhvezdí panny AKA Constellation of the Virgo (1965)

    1961-1970ComedyCzech RepublicRomanceZbynek Brynych

    Private Standa Urban is one of a group of disappointed soldiers who had been planning to go on leave from a military airfield. He is supposed to be having an important meeting with his great love Jana, who has come to the nearest little town to see him. They have not seen each other for some time and Standa is afraid for the relationship. Unfortunately a second-degree alert has been sounded and the soldiers are not allowed to leave the garrison. The unhappy Standa volunteers for guard duty. Captain Pazourek seems very severe but in fact he is an understanding man. He sends an ambulance with two nurses, Veleba and Rejman, for the girl, and they secretly smuggle her into the sick bay. The attractive blonde becomes the centre of unwanted attention from the soldiers, and before his friends have found Standa, she has become disgusted with the whole adventure.Read More »

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