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Friday, May 24 @ 21:35
(1941) Starring Robert Young, Randolph Scott and Dean Jagger. Directed by Fritz Lang. When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Friday, May 24 @ 23:55
(2000) Chinese Comedy. Starring Lihua Dong, Bensahn Zhao and Jie Dong. Directed by Yimou Zhang. Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pairs off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
Saturday, May 25 @ 21:15
(1997) Starring Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett and Ciarán Hinds. Directed by Gillian Armstrong. In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. Lucinda is a teenage Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of contemporary Australia. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are ostracized from society for different reasons and so join forces.
Sunday, May 26 @ 15:30
1974 Drama. Director Michael Landon. Starring Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon and Melissa Sue Anderson. Pilot to the long running tv-series. Story of the Ingalls family who left house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, hoping to find a new place to call home.
Monday, May 27 @ 21:30
1982 Drama: (1982) Oscar winning drama. Starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek and Melanie Mayron. Directed by Costa-Gavras. This tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman, who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly disappears. In trying to find out what has happened, his wife Beth is stonewalled, not only by the ruling junta but by the American consulate. His father, staunchly patriotic Ed Horman, joins Beth in her search.
Wednesday, May 29 @ 23:35
2007 Comedy. Starring Christopher Plummer and Michael Angarano. Directed by Michael Schroeder. Christopher Plummer plays Flash, a curmudgeon with a hankering for classic movies and booze. Cameron is a volatile teen who commits grand theft auto just because the car is an exact replica from Christine. Their relationship is forged in the darkness of a movie theatre and fuelled by a mutual appreciation of rebellion and cinema.
Friday, May 31 @ 21:40
(1949) Starring Glenn Ford, William Holden and Ellen Drew. Directed by Henry Levin. Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behaviour becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Friday, May 31 @ 23:55
(2009) Starring Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg and Ruta Gedmintas. Directed by Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew. Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. One evening while returning to his home Bikila was involved in a tragic car accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down. For the first time, the true story of Bikila's epic quest for life and sport comes to the big screen.