Author Archive: Retro

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste.

Two soldiers–searching the Sahara for Atlantis–are captured by raiders from the lost city. They are taken before its beautiful queen who has over 50 mummified ex-lovers! What follows is an endless nightmare, climaxing with the murder of one of the soldiers. There are some brilliant moments in this sci-fi fantasy classic.

Woman marries boss to save him from his girlfriend, then falls in love with him. Dir. Luis Bunuel.

Woman marries boss to save him from his girlfriend, then falls in love with him. Dir. Luis Bunuel.

Four men face danger at every turn driving truckloads of nitroglycerin through jungle country to Guatemala’s to oil fields.

A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.

Cocteau’s final film is a surrealistic dream journey through his life, completing the trilogy that includes “Blood of a Poet” and “Orpheus”. English subtitles. Dir. Jean Cocteau.

Man is jeered for thinking he is Jesus Christ, but the ridicule ceases when he begins performing miracles. English subtitles.

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.