• Oswald Mitchell – The Greed of William Hart AKA Horror Maniacs (1948)

    1941-1950DramaHorrorOswald MitchellUnited Kingdom

    Late 1940s British horror drama inspired by the true story of bodysnatchers Burke and Hare who became serial killers in Edinburgh in the 1800s. In order to make money William Hart (Tod Slaughter) and Mr. Moore (Henry Oscar) begin digging up corpses and selling them to the medical school. As the demand for dead bodies grows, Hart and Moore decide to get more corpses by killing the living. While they choose victims whose disappearance will most likely go unnoticed it is only a matter of time before they make a mistake that could lead to their discovery..Read More »

  • Sidney Gilliat – London Belongs to Me AKA Dulcimer Street (1948)

    1941-1950ClassicsDramaSidney GilliatUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    On Christmas Eve of 1938, the widow landlord of the boarding house at 10 Dulcimer Street, Mrs Vizzard (Joyce Carey), allows manipulative elderly dance hall coat checker Connie Coke (Ivy St. Helier) to put off payment of her back rent until after the holiday. The landlord rents out her basement room to phony medium Henry Squales (Alastair Sim), who performs a seance at her occult club. The mousey cockney Fred Josser (Wylie Watson) is given a clock at his retirement celebration by his firm after forty years of service and his crabby wife (Fay Compton) groans at his foolish contentment.Read More »

  • Richard Sale – Let’s Make It Legal (1951)

    1951-1960ComedyDramaMarilyn MonroeRichard SaleUSA

    Synopsis:
    The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Hugh wouldn’t dream of calling it off, but can’t abandon his rose garden. Things change that afternoon, though, when Miriam’s old suitor Victor Macfarland checks into the hotel where Hugh is publicity man. With Miriam’s daughter Barbara rooting for Hugh and son-in-law Jerry rooting for Victor, things are unlikely to be resolved by midnight…Read More »

  • Frederick De Cordova – Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

    1951-1960ComedyFrederick De CordovaUSA

    Synopsis:
    Professor Peter Boyd’s engagement to the Dean’s daughter is upset by the revelation that his father was a habitual convict. To prove the Dean’s genetic theory of inherited traits as wrong, Boyd starts a ‘secret’ experiment. He borrows the science department’s chimpanzee with the goal of showing that it is one’s environment that affects your reaction to right and wrong.Read More »

  • Antonio Carlos da Fontoura – Copacabana Me Engana AKA Copacabana Fools Me (1968)

    1961-1970Antonio Carlos da FontouraBrazilComedyDrama

    From IMDB:
    Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn’t have a job, he doesn’t go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life – for a while.Read More »

  • Sylvestre Amoussou – Africa paradis AKA Africa Paradise (2006)

    2001-2010African CinemaBeninComedyDramaSylvestre Amoussou

    When Olivier and Pauline, a French engineer and a French teacher, can not live decently in their own country any longer, they decide to emigrate to the United States of Africa.Read More »

  • Raymond Rouleau – Les sorcières de Salem AKA The Crucible (1957)

    1951-1960ClassicsDramaFranceRaymond Rouleau

    Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town’s minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression. John too, is accused; Abigail offers him a way to avoid hanging. Elisabeth has her own confession.Read More »

  • Robin Hessman – My Perestroika (2010)

    2001-2010DocumentaryPoliticsRobin HessmanUSA

    Synopsis:
    An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country. Engaging, funny, and positively inspiring, in MY PERESTROIKA politics is personal, honesty overshadows ideology, and history progresses one day, one life at a time.
    — (C) International Film CircuitRead More »

  • Jack Arnold – No Name on the Bullet (1959)

    1951-1960Jack ArnoldThrillerUSAWestern

    Synopsis:
    Cool, cultured John Gant rides into Lordsburg. Gant is a professional killer, and although no one knows who he is there to kill, they are all worried. Everyone has enemies, and maybe Gant is in town for them. While they wait for him to make his move, paranoia starts taking over…Read More »

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