Author Archive: Retro

Comedy about Navy officer’s misadventures.

At the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them all conceivable provisions and their servants, and live in luxury in a mansion-like tent on the beach. After a short time, a group of uninvited friends arrive. They decimate the supplies and, in the course of a frenzied shooting party, kill every living animal on the island before leaving, bringing most of the servants with them. The only people left on the island are Liviu and his wife, their friend Larson, and one servant, Eusebio. The expected supplies do not arrive, the party has no way of communicating with the outside world, and passion is rife between the one woman and three men on the island

An elderly professor’s ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can’t seem to tear herself away from him.

Comedy about unruly girls at St Trinian’s school.

Two boys in WWII England discover a downed German pilot.

British children’s fantasy about a boy who turns yellow after a science experiment.

Japanese drama about a man and woman meeting by chance.

Baron von Weser keeps a menagerie of carnivorous plants, but takes great care of one particular specimen.