We the Poor
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his…
Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Bandits of Orgosolo
A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may…
Lillian Russell
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
The Moon and Sixpence
Loosely inspired from Gauguin’s life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted…
The Savage Innocents
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
Daughter of Darkness
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called…
The River
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing…
A Message to Garcia
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
Paris Frills
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend’s fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of…
Jailhouse Rock
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
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