During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

I've been reading some of the other reviews of this on letterboxd and I'm definitely in the minority. I found the movie to be fine, but nothing special. Ask me about it in 6 months and I'm not sure I'...

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Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee B...

This was one of the first movies produced in France after the German occupation of world war II. Far be it from me to try to analyze an entire nation's psyche from events that happened 15 years before...

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the ...

I've been trying to catch up on old classic films that I've never seen, and I choose my films randomly so I never know what's going to be next. For some reason whenever I heard about this one, I alway...

Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the...

At the beginning of this film I was trying to figure out if it was an homage to, or a rip off of Sergio Leone. Having now watched the whole thing I still don't know. But it was clear that the director...

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught ...

I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a horror movie in the mode of the Annabelle movies (it had dolls) or a serial killer movie in the mode of silence of the lambs (it had a female FBI agent search...

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal ...

I've never been a big fan of movies or couples are constantly sniping at one another. One of my all-time least favorite films was war of the roses. This movie didn't rise to that level of sniping but ...

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple...

I came into this knowing virtually nothing about the film but most everything I read about it was good. Sometimes a film can be well made but still it doesn't give you the emotional punch that it gives other people and that's what it was like for me. It was well made with some nice cinematography. I particularly liked the shots of the fields near tenements in Rome that were built right next to ancient Roman ruins with the ancient aqueducts in the background. I really liked Anna Magnani in the title role. Her performance was a little over the