Painted Faces
The story of Peking Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Law
Actors: Cheng Pei-Pei, Cheung Man-Lung, Chung Gam-Yam, Goo Fai, John Shum Kin-Fun, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung, Siu Ming-Fui, Wong Chiu-Wai, Yeung Yam-Yin
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from…
Bloom
Adapted from James Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and…
Twin Flower
In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape…
The History of Love
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother’s loneliness.
Missionary
Grieving her mother’s death and estranged from her husband, Katherine Kingsmen does her best to raise her son alone. When she meets a supportive and handsome Mormon missionary, what seems…
The Boy in Blue
Ned Hanlan was Canada’s most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is…
99 Women
Jesus Franco’s campy women’s prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky…
Jennifer on My Mind
Marcus (Michael Brandon), a nice, rich, Jewish boy from New York, meets and falls in love with Jennifer (Tippy Walker), a girl from Oyster Bay, while they are both in…
The Lords of Discipline
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960’s. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will…
Boots Malone
In this 1952 drama directed by William Dieterle, William Holden stars as an agent for horse jockeys who faces his greatest challenge.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.