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The Great War

  The Great War is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I.  Read More

1860

  1860 is a story about the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan (as part of the Risorgimento) to reach Garibaldi’s headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered Read More

Lolita

  With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a European professor Read More

The Bodyguard from Beijing

  A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is Read More

The Rickshaw Man

  At the turn of the Twentieth Century, rickshaw driver Matsugoro “Matsu” is a happy man and a troublemaker well-known by everyone in his village. One day, Matsu sees an Read More

Me and You

  Lorenzo has difficulties in communicating with other people and pays more attention to his inner world. When his class goes to the mountains for a week to ski, Lorenzo Read More

So Close to Paradise

  So Close to Paradise takes place in the 1980s in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The film follows two young migrant workers. Young innocent Dong Zi (Shi Yu) Read More

Shanghai Triad

  When teenager Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao Cuihua) arrives in Shanghai from the country, he is brought by his uncle (Li Xuejian) to work for gang leader Tang (Li Baotian). Tang Read More

Rouge

  In 1987 Hong Kong, newspaperman Yuen (Alex Man) and his girlfriend, Chor (Emily Chu) are drawn into a doomed 1930s romance when the ghost of courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui) Read More

Rickshaw Boy

  Xiangzi is a young, hardworking, well-built rickshaw puller who dreams of owning his own rickshaw. Just when he has earned enough to buy one, it is confiscated by warlord Read More