Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
A Gentle Woman opens with a falling scarf, leading us to a young woman’s dead body on the street. From the later scenes, we understand that the young woman was Elle (Dominique Sanda), who steps off the balcony of her Parisian apartment, plunging to her death.
A Gentle Woman (1969) Read More
Conversation Piece storyline. A 60-ish American art collector and former scientist lives beautifully and alone in Rome but his life is radically disrupted.
Conversation Piece (1974) Read More
In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust a group of survivors, mostly US Air Force personnel, travel from the western US to Albany, New York from where a radio broadcast has been received. Led by a no nonsense Major, Eugene Denton, they travel in specialized vehicles built specifically for survival in harsh conditions. Along the way, they are joined by an attractive young woman when they stop in Las Vegas, are joined by a young boy when they meet desperate survivors in the desert, must face hoards of killer cockroaches and survive a major flood in Detroit.
Damnation Alley (1977) Read More
1900 movie storyline. Rural Italy, early 1900s. Two boys, Alfredo and Olmo, are born on the same day – one to the owner of a large estate, the other to one of his labourers.
1900 (1977) Read More
The Conformist opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist.
The Conformist (1970) Read More