Slightly Scarlet

Behind the Mask

February 1932 •English

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

Crumb Catcher

July 2024 •English

After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane and his wife head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a waiter and bartender from the reception, blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. But the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, an outlandish device called… The Crumb Catcher.

Framed

March 1930 •English

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.

Inkognito

January 1978 •Slovak

Psycho Beach Party

August 2000 •English

Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.

Interlude

January 1968 •Greek

An affair–parenthesis in the dull life of two people (Angelos Antonopoulos and Alexandra Ladikou), who meet by chance on a railway trip and spend a few hours together while the train is stuck in a station. Based on the same Noël Coward play that David Lean used for Brief Encounter.

Manhattan Melodrama

May 1934 •English

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Poppy

June 1936 •English

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.

My Cousin From Warsaw

August 1931 •German

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.

Escort

October 2023 •Croatian

For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.

Don Juan Tenorio

October 1922 •Spanish

Don Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a year. He wins, killing twirty-two men and seducing seventy-two women. In the end, however, he is saved from damnation through a return to true belief and the love of a saintly woman, Doña Inés.

International House

May 1933 •English

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.

The Ruling Class

September 1972 •English

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

It's the Rage

September 1999 •English

A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of it all are Helen and Warren Harding, an up-scale couple on the brink of divorce, whose awakening in the night by a burglar sets off a catastrophic series of events.

Antigone

December 1958 •Italian

Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

One Night at Susie's

October 1930 •English

A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.

Taková láska

October 1959 •Czech

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who is the guilty party.

Historia de una escalera

August 1950 •Spanish

The Thief

January 1955 •English

The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.

Murder She Said

September 1961 •English

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.