Fabiola is among the earliest and best of the big budget Roman spectacle film which
became popular both in Hollywood and European cinema in the late 1950s... [More...]
Le Port du désir is a
film which was clearly influenced by contemporary American film noir
and has much in common with another worthy example of French film noir... [More...]
The scope of this film and its scale are breathtaking – but the end result is only partially
successful. Even in his formidable epic of the 1920s... [More...]
After the sophistication and scale of René Clair’s grand melodramas of the late
1940s and early 1950s (such as Le Silence est d’or and Les Grandes manoeuvres
)... [More...]
Despite the shameful political-incorrectness of its title and some pretty blatant sentimentality,
this is an entertaining comedy thriller which achieves a satisfying blend of B-movie gangster
fare and slapstick.
Probably... [More...]
One of the lesser works from Hungarian filmmaker Géza von
Radványi, Ein Engel auf Erden
is an absurd fantasy comedy that is memorable only for its cast... [More...]
