The Assassination of Trotsky 1972  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi, Duilio Del Prete, Claudio Brook, Jean Desailly, Simone Valere, Carlos Miranda, Peter Chatel, Jack Betts, Michael Forest
While exiled in Mexico City, Russian Revolution leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) is the victim of Frank Jacson's (Alain Delon) successful assassination plot. This film involves the final months in Trotsky's life and shows how Jacson, with help from his girlfriend Gita Samuels (Romy Schneider)–who just happens to be one of Trotsky's secretaries–manages to get close enough to Trotsky to kill him.
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer 1956 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Albert C. Gannaway, Ismael Rodriguez
Cast: Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., Faron Young, Kem Dibbs, Damian O'Flynn, Jacqueline Evans, Nancy Rodman, Eduardo Noriega, Fred Kohler Jr., Claudio Brook
This low-budget biography of Daniel Boone (Bruce Bennett) is entertaining and educational as it tells the story of Boone's pioneering efforts into Kentucky.
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The Devil's Rain 1975  PG, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Feust
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, Keenan Wynn, Joan Prather, John Travolta, Claudio Brook
Small town Devil worshippers go for it in this watchable film, and the ending is worth the wait. John Travolta's film debut, but you'll have to look fast.
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The Exterminating Angel 1962  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
aka: El Angel Exterminador
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Enrique Rambal, Lucy Gallardo, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Enrique Rambal, Antonio Bravo, Cesar del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Ofelia Guilmain, Nadia Haro Oliva
While attending a dinner party, the guests are entranced by their host's music room and then find that, for reasons unknown to them, they are trapped in the room. As the days pass, they are reduced to living like savages. Russell (Antonio Bravo) dies, and the other guests put his body in a cupboard. More guests die, and the situation deteriorates until it is suggested that they sacrifice Nobile (Enrique Rambal). Then Letitia (Sylvia Pinal) recommends that they retrace their actions of the last days, and they find themselves freed from the room. Celebrating their freedom, the guests attend mass at a cathedral–only to find that they, along with the priest and congregation, are now trapped inside the cathedral.
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The Mansion of Madness 1972  R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
Director: Juan Lopez Moctezuma
Cast: Arthur Hansel, Claudio Brook, Ellen Sherman, Martin LaSalle, David Silva, Monica Serna, Max Kerlow, Susana Kamini, Pancho Cordova, Roberto Dumont
Loosly based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather," this bizarre film begins with reporter Gaston (Arthur Hansel) visiting a remote asylum. It soon becomes clear that the lunatic director (Claudio Brook) has taken over the asylum and allows the inmates to act out their insane fantasies.
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The Return of a Man Called Horse 1976  PG, 129 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Enrique Lucero, Ana DeSade, Claudio Brook, Jorge Russek
This excellent sequel to "A Man Called Horse" again features Richard Harris portraying John Morgan, a former captive of the Sioux who returns to America to help save his tribe from the perils of Western expansion by white Americans. There is another sequel: "Triumphs of a Man Called Horse."
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The Scarlet Lady 1968 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean Valere
Cast: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook, Albert Simono, Lucien Raimbourg, Monique Melinand, Simone Bach, Robert Rollis, Sabine Sun, Colette Gerard, Antonio Passalia
Lucie (Monica Vitti) decides to kill herself after breaking up with her boyfriend (Robert Hossein). But first, she gets drunk on champagne. Then she continues her drinking while thinking it over, finally coming to the conclusion that no man is worth the trouble of committing suicide. Harmless, black comedy.
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Simon of the Desert 1965 N/R, 45 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Enrique Alvarez Felix, Enrique del Castillo, Jesus Fernandez, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Antonio Bravo, Francisco Reiguera, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Eduardo MacGregor
Simon (Claudio Brook) is an extremely religious man in the fifth century who has been standing on a tall column in a desert for over six-and-a-half years. Crowds gather as he dispenses healing to the deserving or hands out punishment as needed. Meanwhile, the Devil (Silvia Pinal andk Francisco Reiguera) shows up in several forms to entice Simon off the column, but he recognizes her each time. She finally gets him off, and takes him to a disco in 1960s Manhattan. The film stopped abruptly when Bunuel ran out of money, but he still made his anti-Christian point.
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Viva Maria! 1965 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure / Comedy
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, George Hamilton, Paulette Dubost, Gregor von Rezzori, Poldo Bendandi, Claudio Brook, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Francisco Reiguera, Jose Baviera
In 1907, Maria I (Jeanne Moreau) and Maria II (Brigitte Bardot) are vaudevillians who gain fame in the circus and end up fighting for Pancho Villa.
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| 1. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
2. Cronos (1992)
3. Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)
4. The Devil's Rain (1975)
5. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
aka: El Angel Exterminador
6. The Mansion of Madness (1972)
aka: Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
7. The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
8. The Scarlet Lady (1968)
9. Simon of the Desert (1965)
10. Viva Maria! (1965)
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