Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement drew attention to the cause, but this left-wing collective picked up a cine-camera. The fictional story at the heart of the film is somewhat melodramatic, but the authentic surroundings give its message realism and weight.
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...
The story of the conflict between one of the poles of feudalism and his oppression to peasants by bu...
A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown ...
The story of three women, of very different epochs, whose lives are strangely parallel. The first st...
Corruption, political instability and social poverty are explored in this tense documentary film chr...