Director George Sluizer’s terrifying 1988 Dutch mystery horror psycho thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos], based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg with a screenplay by the author, is highly disturbing, even uniquely disturbing, but with […]
Director Andrew Lau’s excellent, well-staged 2019 Chinese blockbuster real-life disaster movie The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] is based on a terrifying incident in May 2018 when a Sichuan Airlines flight cockpit’s windshield cracked and […]
The 1974 Euro-thriller movie The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] stars Anthony Quinn as a US narcotics agent hiring an English contract killer (Michael Caine) to kill a French crime boss (James Mason). Director Robert Parrish’s […]
Director Jean Renoir’s 1938 historical drama La Marseillaise is his epic account of the French Revolution, which focuses on human interactions instead of on political events. Financed by trade unions and performed by mostly non-professional […]
Director Jean Renoir’s 1962 French wartime comedy drama The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] stars Jean-Pierre Cassel as a Parisian corporal, who is captured by the invading Germans and, along with two of […]
Director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s colourful, lively and fast-paced 1955 dubbed Italian romantic adventure swashbuckler The Golden Falcon [Il Falco d’Oro] is set in Sienna in the 17th century. The story is about two rival families […]
The 1952 French romantic comedy drama The Golden Coach [Le Carosse d’Or] [La Carrozza d’Oro] is filmed by the great Jean Renoir in rich, effervescent style, with gorgeous, luminous Technicolor photography by his gifted nephew […]
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