The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose
Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicol...
The Sword of El Cid AKA La spada del Cid (1962) Miguel Iglesias, Chantal Deberg, Roland Carey, Sandro Moretti
Film based on the homonymous poem and other documents from the epoque.
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) George Seaton, William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith
An American oil company executive of Swedish descent, now living in Sweden,...
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) John Ford, Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel...
Weeping for a Bandit AKA Llanto por un bandido (1964) Carlos Saura, Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy
José María “El Tempranillo” fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Mo...
A House in Jerusalem / Bait be Yerushalayim (1998) Amos Gitai
Can a house be a metaphor for Arab-Jewish relations in Israel? Amos Gitai r...
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Comedy, Western
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting ...
The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Drama, History
This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over th...
Land of Mine / Under sandet (2015) Martin Zandvliet, Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Drama, History, War
In the wake of the Second World War, the Danish authorities force thousands...
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Roberto Rossellini, Aldo Fabrizi, Gianfranco Bellini, Peparuolo
The film dramatizes about a dozen vignettes from the life of St. Francis an...
Marat/Sade (1967) Peter Brook, Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Drama, History, Music
July 13, 1808 in the Charenton Insane Asylum just outside Paris. The inmate...
Prince Ehtejab (1974) Bahman Farmanara, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, ...
The Golden Horde (1951) George Sherman, Ann Blyth, David Farrar, George Macready
In 1220, a small band of English crusaders arrives at Samarkand in Central ...
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) Delmer Daves, Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie
The story picks up at the point where “The Robe (1953)” ends, following the...
