CELLULOIDE

DescriptionDescription A group of struggling young artists in wartime Italy manages to make a film under the noses of the Nazis. This picture chronicles the making of Roberto Rossellini's classic Open City and presents portrayals of luminaries Rossellini, Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini.

BLUE MOUNTAIN

DescriptionDescription The Balmer villa is just as perfect and pleasant as can be. Manfred is a respected and well-to-do businessman, Renate a competent and happy housewife, and their pre-teen daughter, Sonia, a nice young lady. Within this idyllic household, however, a silent storm simmers. Emerging from adolescence, young Sonia longs for more. She finds the...

BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE

DescriptionDescription Married doldrums are out, swinging is in. Sex-savvy couple Robert Culp and wife Natalie Wood show bored Dyan Cannon and bewildered lawyer-husband Elliott Gould how it's done. A comic, unabashedly commercial debut for director Paul Mazursky. 1969. 104 min.

BUTTERFIELD 8

DescriptionDescription It's been called garish, trashy, cliched. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her portrayal of a high-class prostitute wanting to go straight, convinced she's found Mr. Right. Dina Merrill is the noble wife to end all noble wives. With Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher. Adapted for the screen from John O'Hara's novel. Directed by...

BETWEEN PANCHO VILLA AND A NAKED WOMAN (ENTRE PANCHO VILLA Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA)

DescriptionDescription This story describes the dilemma of Gina, an enterprising, fortyish, divorced woman who wants more out of her casual relationship with Adrian, a liberal intellectual who's in it only for some good sex and shies away from any form of commitment. Adrian, who is writing a book on Pancho Villa's life, uses the famed...

BETWEEN THE FAMILIAR

DescriptionDescription In Brighton Beach, a young girl feels estranged from her pretentious mother, and finds strength with a lonely salesman.

BLACK DJU

DescriptionDescription From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Islands, it's one very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journ?y 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. But it's not just the weather that's not welcoming,...

THE BLIND COW (DIE BLINDE KUH)

DescriptionDescription Satellite television in 1994 is available for all Europeans to enjoy. What is puzzling scientists as well as the public is why the ominous flickering swastikas and images of Hitler have been appearing on a certain satellite frequency. Two highly opposing figures meet and embark upon an investigation: a Luxembourg engineer and science fiction...

THE BRYLCREEM BOYS

DescriptionDescription The story of The Brylcreem Boys takes place against the backdrop of the Republic of Ireland in 1941, when-as part of an effort to remain strictly neutralthe Dublin Government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for...

BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA

DescriptionDescription Set in Greenville, S.C., not long after WWII, this story looks behind Tobacco Road cliches to evoke the complex weave of love, hardship and family bonds that conditioned the life of the poor whites in the days before New South prosperity kicked in. Pie opens with a narrator recalling that she was born after...

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