Christian Petzold – Polizeiruf 110: Tatorte (2018)
Christian Petzold’s third episode for the Polizeiruf 110 series, “Tatorte,” starring Matthias Brandt, who has a major cameo in Transit. Episode description: A woman is executed in a secluded parking...
View ArticleJoseph L. Mankiewicz – The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Synopsis:At Maria Vargas’ funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards...
View ArticleBrian Desmond Hurst – Sensation (1936)
John Lodge plays a reporter who is one of what is known as the Murder Gang.As soon as a murder occurs he and journalists from other papers descend on the town where the homicide occurred and prey like...
View ArticleGiuseppe Ferrara – Cento giorni a Palermo (1984)
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take...
View ArticleKunitoshi Manda – Seppun AKA The Kiss (2007)
Synopsis:One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul....
View ArticleFred F. Sears – The Miami Story (1954)
Synopsis:When Miami, Florida became national headquarters for a ten billion dollar crime syndicate ruled by crime-czar Tomy Brill (Luther Adler), whose chief henchman is Ted Delacorte (John Baer), a...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Synopsis:There is a dead well-dressed man in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Captain Albert Wiles, who stumbles across the body and finds by the man’s identification that...
View ArticleRobert Bresson – L’argent AKA Money (1983)
Quote:In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new level of astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – To Catch a Thief (1955)
Synopsis:American expatriate John Robie, living in high style on the Riviera, is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copycat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him....
View ArticleFrederick De Cordova – Her Kind of Man (1946)
Quote:Georgia King (Janis Paige) thought she was sitting pretty, Broadway-bound and the chosen gal of bad boy Steve Maddux (Zachary Scott). Things go awry when Steve plugs a mug in self-defense and...
View ArticleJules Dassin – Up Tight! (1968)
Proto-blaxploitation from great master Jules Dassin Jules Dassin wanted to remake the 1935 film “The Informer” with an all-black cast, set in inner-city America. The original story was based on the...
View ArticleHerman Yau – Deng hou dong jian hua fa la AKA From the Queen to the Chief...
Quote:Beginning in 1997 with television footage of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region being sworn into office, we next see an appeal being made to the Chief Executive....
View ArticleBertrand Blier – Les valseuses AKA Going Places (1974)
Quote:Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether...
View ArticleAlfred Vohrer & Samuel M. Sherman – Die blaue Hand AKA Creature With the Blue...
Die blaue Hand is a pretty wild movie on its own terms. It crams a lot of bizarre digressions into a mere 74 minutes, not counting some stuff reportedly inserted after the fact by an American...
View ArticleSeymour Friedman – Loan Shark (1952)
Quote:A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try...
View ArticleIrvin Kershner – The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Mordecai Jones is a rural con artist (a ‘flim-flam man’) who takes on a young army deserter; Curley as his protege, and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade is in hot pursuit of the...
View ArticleJim Jarmusch – The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Quote:The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. 2.39GB | 1 h 44 min | 1024×576 | mkv...
View ArticleMarco Bellocchio – Il traditore AKA The Traitor (2019)
Quote:The real life of Tommaso Buscetta the so called “boss of the two worlds”, first mafia informant in Sicily 1980’s. 3.82GB | 2 h 31 min | 1024×552 | mkv...
View ArticleRoy Rowland – The Girl Hunters (1963)
Synopsis:Private detective Mike Hammer (Mickey Spillane) is found by the police, lying in a back alley in a drunken stupor – the same drunken stupor he’s spent the last few years suffering from since...
View ArticleWilliam Castle – Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
In order to smash a dope ring, a federal agent (Howard Duff) makes a deal with an Alcatraz convict (Dan Duryea) to help him infiltrate the ring. 1.29GB | 1h 15mn | 754×566 | mkv...
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