Category: Drama
July 28, 2019 / Drama

Soldaat van Oranje (1977) AKA Soldier of Orange

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This bracing World War II epic was the film that brought Verhoeven to Hollywood’s attention. It follows a group of college friends through the Nazi occupation of Holland, as two becomes heroes of the resistance movement, while another turns traitor. As usual, Verhoeven’s moral ambiguity and skewed sensibility keep things complicated: far from a patriotic flag-waver, Soldier of Orange is as knotty, subversive, and gonzo as war movies get (witness the hero performing a homoerotic tango), while demonstrating Verhoeven’s ability to balance action with involving human drama.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Soldaat van Oranje (1977)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Soldier of Orange</span>
July 28, 2019 / Drama

A Story of David (1960)

King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul’s armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. Saul’s son, and David’s best friend, Jonathan, conspires to help David, who is reluctant to fight back against his own people the Israelites.

WATCH HEREA Story of David (1960)
July 28, 2019 / Arthouse

Um Trem para as Estrelas (1987) AKA Subway to the Stars

The young Vinicius is a young saxophone player, from Rio’s poor suburbs, facing an uncertain but perhaps promising future. One day his girlfriend suddenly disappears after a night of love under the stars. Day and night, often on the ‘Trem’ (Rio’s subway lines), others with the help of a Detective and his sources, Vinicius discovers the city’s underbelly: its low-lives, its victims, its most eccentric characters, and milieus.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Um Trem para as Estrelas (1987)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Subway to the Stars</span>
July 28, 2019 / Drama

Zbabelec (1962) AKA The Coward

In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans, but, at the end of his humiliation, finds the courage to save his honor and the innocent victims of the Nazis.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Zbabelec (1962)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA The Coward</span>
July 26, 2019 / Arthouse

Shiroi Kyoto (1966) AKA The Great White Tower

July 25, 2019 / Drama

Angi Vera (1979)

Angi Vera is a strikingly beautiful 18-year-old assistant nurse living in postwar Hungary. When she speaks out publicly about problems at her hospital, she’s not condemned by the new communist regime — she’s earmarked for big things. Sent to a party training school in a rural town, she must debate the nation’s new philosophies with other “chosen” pupils.

WATCH HEREAngi Vera (1979)
July 22, 2019 / Drama

Reach the Rock (1998)

A small-town troublemaker, directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief engage in a battle of wills and wit.

WATCH HEREReach the Rock (1998)
July 18, 2019 / Drama

The Big Fisherman (1959)

Simon Peter, a disciple of Jesus, attempts to live according to the guidance of the Messiah. Peter takes in a runaway fugitive he assumes to be a boy but who turns out to be a half-Arab princess named Fara. Fara wants to take revenge against her father, King Herod, for his humiliation of her mother. However, when she is joined by a suitor, Prince Voldi they both feel the influence of Peter’s teachings about the word of Christ.

WATCH HEREThe Big Fisherman (1959)