The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid (1993)

1993

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in […]

Brotherly Love (1970)

1970

In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O’Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). However, while at a local sheep auction, she encounters Douglas and realizes she still loves him. They agree […]

Prorva (1992) aka Moscow Parade

1992
February 2, 2021

Set in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin’s secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler. In this free-wheeling drama, dozens of little dramas center around an affair between the wife of an NKVD official and a baggage handler she has met. The woman, a former aristocrat, is relatively safe in Moscow in 1930, even though Joseph Stalin is running the country since she is […]

Illicit Sins (2006)

2006

On the eve of their wedding, Lauren and Derek start to have second thoughts brought on inadvertently by their friends Carly and Rob when they tell them separately stories about other couples who have sexual problems after they have married. When Carly and Rob realize the damage they may have caused they quickly meet up with Lauren and Derek again and share other couples’ good experiences in the hopes that Lauren and Derek will change […]

Madam Savant (1997)

1997

In this sexy drama, Kira Reed stars as Suzy Largo, who finds herself on the run after her slow-witted husband catches her in bed with another man. While trying to avoid her husband, a series of mix-ups puts Suzy in the middle of a party at an upscale brothel when the police stage a raid just as the Madame is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Suzy makes a run for it, and after she slips through […]

Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle (1976)

1976

The movie revolves around a family of women living in Egypt for some reason. The mother (Nieves Navarro) spends her time getting it on with her native manservant and a handsome, much younger spiritual guru (Al “Zombie” Cliver). The older daughter gets off on teasing and tormenting the manservant when her mother’s not busy with him. The younger daughter, Pina (Annie Belle ) also shows up, apparently returning from school or something. Finally, you have […]