The Emperor of California
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter’s Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
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Director: Luis Trenker
Actors: August Eichhorn, Bernhard Minetti, Elise Aulinger, Hans Zesch-Ballot, Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, Reginald Pasch, Viktoria von Ballasko, Walter Franck, Werner Kunig
The Juror
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as “the Teacher” tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that…
Cazuza: Time Doesn’t Stop
Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza’s mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief…
One Deadly Summer
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out…
A Message to Garcia
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
Posthumous Memories
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis’ classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
Man of a Thousand Faces
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even…
The Children Are Watching Us
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent…
20th Century Nostalgia
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to…
The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
“The Work and The Glory: American Zion” sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people’s move into the West. Divided by…
Fingers
A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.
The Evening Star
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a…