Twenty-year-old Laszlo Sz., a driver’s mate, steals the money he was supposed to post and spends the day wandering around Budapest, visiting bars, restaurants, pinball parlors, and various other places in search of something different and meaningful.
Category: Drama
The story of a young boy (Izzy) and his family, living in New York. His father (Paul) has recently had a stroke, completely debilitating him mentally and physically. Izzy tries to escape the reality of it all by breaking into nearby homes. His mother (Sue) struggles to keep the family together, battling Izzy’s outbursts and the strains of the entire situation.
Set in the bull-fighting Patani Malay community of Southern Thailand. An ungracious loser in the arena kills his rival, whose brother Mamat then vows to get even. His wife Minah fails to stop this cycle of vengeance, which will also affect the younger generation.
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia’s Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne, who subsequently marries a powerful senator. What Mellon doesn’t know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father’s firm. In typical “B”-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients – and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
After Larry Darrant accidentally kills his lover’s estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before the trial, and if the man is found guilty then Larry will give himself up and prevent an innocent man going to the gallows.
Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an upstanding citizen and a loving husband, but Alex will not rest until justice is served.
In 1970s Yerevan, Armen, a compassionate archivist at the National Archives, spends his days helping ordinary citizens uncover forgotten truths about their past. Haunted by the human consequences of the records he handles, he becomes increasingly troubled by the way history can preserve injustice as easily as it preserves memory. As Armen struggles to reconcile his desire for truth with his concern for the people affected by it, his personal life and growing relationship with a young woman named Anahit intertwine with a profound meditation on memory, identity, and the weight of history.
André Delvaux’s final feature film, based on the novel L’oeuvre au noir (Het hermetisch zwart/The Abyss) by Belgian-born novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, tells the story of Zeno, a doctor and alchemist whose quest for knowledge takes him around 16th-century Europe. The film focuses on the end of Zeno’s travels, when he has returned to Bruges to contemplate his life. Living quietly under an assumed name, he treats the sick in one of the town’s religious houses. But once his identity becomes known, the church authorities put him on trial.