This is a samurai film with a foreign accent as the plot of “Kumonosu-jô – Throne of Blood” is conspicuously based on William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. Washizu is a mediaeval military chief who successfully helps his king keep his power by quashing military rebels; Miki is his companion. Both are…

“Do the right thing!” This is the advice Da Mayor, the bum pacing up and down the vibrant street in the borough of Brooklyn where the story takes place, gives to Mookie, the lead character, and his stern looks show he is dead serious about it…

The narrative of “Ikiru – Living” is divided in three parts. The first wryly introduces the main character, Watanabe Kanji, as a narrator tells the audience he is not really worthy of his hero status as his pen-pusher’s career has been useless and his…

The strange case of Angélica has nothing to do with her life but actually with her death. Summoned in the middle of the night by her mourning family to take pictures of her dead body before it is put on the casket amateur photographer Isaac, who shoots as a freelancer…

While traveling in the Trás-os-Montes e Aldo Douro province to shoot a documentary, Manoel de Oliveira saw three crosses on a hill and wondered what significance they held. What he found out was an act of folksy devotion…

After the long, tough, terrible workday that makes up the long first part of “Les misérables” come a long series of shots focusing on the cops as they come back to their homes and the few inhabitants of the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil they have clashed with, silently reflecting on…

In London, a beautiful and mysterious woman asks a Canadian traveler to shelter her as she worries for her safety. At his apartment, she candidly explains she is a spy and even evokes her current assignment. She is later shockingly stabbed and…