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Writer-director Diane Kurys’s French 1977 drama Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] stars Eléonore Klarwein and Odile Michel, and won the Prix Louis-Delluc. This autobiographical tale from début director Kurys follows one year in the lives of two […]
Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]
Director Beeban Kidron’s 1992 drama Used People offers good opportunities for a lovely bunch of actresses, and is a funny, good-natured, cosily predictable film, with enough edge to see it over the sticky sentiment. Shirley […]
‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]
The sweet 1990 comedy Betsy’s Wedding is a tour-de-force for Alan Alda. Alda writes, directs and stars in this warm and funny comedy about a man who will do anything to give his kooky daughter […]
Only Klaus Maria Brandauer raises a real spark of interest in director Joe Roth’s superficial 1986 Rocky clone, Streets of Gold, based on a story by Dezso Magyar. He plays Alek Neuman, a Russian Jewish […]
Melanie Griffith stars in writer-director David Seltzer’s hypnotically awful 1992 World War Two-set romantic thriller drama Shining Through as Linda Voss, gets a job at a New York law firm and later becomes a spy […]