Castles and Cottages

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of wh...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Malte Ludin

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Pa...

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

René Clément

Cast

Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Philippe de Chérisey

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Cast

Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Wolfgang Staudte, Hans Heinrich

Cast

Hildegard Knef, Wilhelm Borchert, Erna Sellmer

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Slatan Dudow

Cast

Paul Bildt, Harry Hindemith, Paul Edwin Roth

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Lee Van Cleef, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Ralph Bellamy, Farrah Fawcett, Polly Bergen

After years of living in the city and working in a business world altogether apart from his roots, Mike, a westernized First Nations, is contacted by freelance reporter Maureen, who was enlisted by his grandfather, shaman Old Man Hawk, to track his grandson. When Mike assents to returning with Maureen, they find that the village is bes...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

George McCowan, Daryl Duke

Cast

Jan-Michael Vincent, Marilyn Hassett, Chief Dan George

A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles. Several National Hockey League players also appear in the film.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Art Hindle, Trudy Young, John Vernon

Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Mo...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse