Haruo Kuramoto works in a company where he wants to climb by marrying the director’s daughter. But he has a problem: he maintains a secret relationship with Reiko, secretary in the same company, whom he has made pregnant and who under no circumstances intends to give him up.Read More »
‘A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy…’
– MUBIRead More »
Andreas and Agisilaos, two rich old friends, are fascinated with young Rita, a poor girl from Plaka, who often visits their aristocratic neighborhood in Kifissia with her mother. They dream of asking for her hand and wonder if aged men have the right to fall in love. Agisilaos actually means to propose marriage whereas Andreas would rather sell his soul to the devil, like Faust, (which he actually does) so he can be young again and win Rita’s love in the traditional way. But perhaps Agisilaos’ option proves to be more …traditional than Andreas’ and finally the two men (the former in his old age and the latter in his rejuvenated version) will have to fight hard to win Rita’s affection.Read More »
Amir needs money to marry his girlfriend Miriam, and joins a gang of counterfeiters, but soon Amir develops a relationship with the boss’s wife, and events reach a horrific and explosive conclusion.Read More »
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. They manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away.Read More »
Seemingly happy gun enthusiast Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) tells his wife Ilene (Tanya Morgan) that he’s feeling disturbed, but she hasn’t time to hear him out. Aging horror film star Byron Orlock (Boris Karloff) reluctantly agrees to a public appearance at a drive-in, even though he’s bitter and has announced his retirement. Their paths will eventually cross, as Tommy embarks on a wave of modern horror that outpaces anything in Orlock’s old movies.Read More »
Synopsis
Naive young Karen wants to help her struggling amateur-filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psycho prankster Otto stalks the building where Christopher is shooting a low-grade adult movie in order to keep himself afloat.Read More »
A magnificent city symphony, regarding the activity in and around New York City’s waterfront.
This copy comes from the website of the George Eastman House and has a watermark. They describe it thusly:
Quote:
A voyage of discovery among familiar things: the images and sounds of New York Harbor. This film-poem explores the edge of the shoreline, where man and nature persistently confront one another. In the words of critic, Faubion Bowers, “It is the most haunting film I have ever seen. The film’s poetry is utterly visual – such wonder at the ordinary, such mastery of the natural.” The film was made by Leo Hurwitz and still photographer, Charles Pratt.Read More »
Story:
Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness with him. When confronted by both, however, she decides to choose neither. She has been dependent for too long, she decides, and wishes to live her own life.Read More »