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?
Au Revoir les Enfants
Once upon a time in a boarding school in Nazi-occupied France
Ashes and Diamonds
Light is found in the dark last days of WWII in Poland
The River
Civilization flourished by rivers and one of Renoir’s best succeeds for its idyllic portrayal of life by the Ganges
The Man Who Wasn’t There
A mystifying neo-noir with a main character the defies convention
Serpico
One man’s moral nightmare where the right thing to do is not the most prudent action
The Wrong Man
Henry Fonda’s innocence and the injustice of the system are never in doubt in a classic procedural
The Host
A genre-bending horror film about a river monster and what a family owes to each other