 |
A Touch of Zen |
1971 |
King Hu |
Hsu Feng, Shih Chun, Pai Ying |
Fantasy, Action, Adventure |
Ming dynasty noblewoman Yang must escape from the evil eunuch Hsu. She seeks refuge at a decrepit town where she gets assistance from a naïve scholar and a group of mysterious yet powerful monks. |
180 |
4.1 |
Jeff |
 |
Andrei Rublev |
1966 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko |
Drama, History |
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again. |
183 |
4.4 |
Jeff |
 |
Cabaret |
1972 |
Bob Fosse |
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem |
Romance, Drama, Music |
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. |
124 |
4.1 |
Jeff |
 |
Come and See |
1985 |
Elem Klimov |
Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius |
War, Drama |
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family’s wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope. |
142 |
4.6 |
Jeff |
 |
Cool Hand Luke |
1967 |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew |
Crime, Drama |
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers. |
127 |
4.1 |
Jeff |
 |
Godzilla |
1954 |
Ishiro Honda |
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata |
Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction |
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yemani soon discover something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well. |
96 |
4.0 |
Jeff |
 |
High Noon |
1952 |
Fred Zinnemann |
Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell |
Drama, Western |
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he gathers a posse from among the local townspeople. |
85 |
4.0 |
Jeff |
 |
La Dolce Vita |
1960 |
Federico Fellini |
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée |
Drama, Comedy |
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer. |
176 |
4.3 |
Jeff |
 |
The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard |
Mystery, Thriller |
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a “third man” present at the time of Harry’s death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover, Anna. |
104 |
4.3 |
Jeff |
 |
Throne of Blood |
1957 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura |
History, Drama |
Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit’s prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa’s resetting of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films. |
108 |
4.3 |
Clark, Jeff |
