Author Archive: Retro

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.

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.

A team of international scientists and engineers attempts to build a tunnel under the ocean.

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.