The Lighthouse (2019)
Epic and stark, The Lighthouse is a descent into true madness
Spellbound (1945)
Bergman and Peck have chemistry, but Spellbound is too dizzy as a whole
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
A film that encapsulated the grief and hope of the Soviets after years of subjugation and slaughter
Forbidden Games (1952)
The horrors of war hit home in a modern fairy-tale about death
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
Alexander Nevsky
The propaganda is strong with this one…
Kanal
What horrors lie beneath the streets of Warsaw?
Ashes and Diamonds
Light is found in the dark last days of WWII in Poland
The Man Who Wasn’t There
A mystifying neo-noir with a main character the defies convention
The Wrong Man
Henry Fonda’s innocence and the injustice of the system are never in doubt in a classic procedural