A wily D.A.(Brady) gets a 10 year conviction of a young 20 year old (Robert Graham)who he knows killed a man in self defense. Read More »
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Running on Empty (1988) Sidney Lumet, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
The Popes are a family who haven’t been able to use their real identity for years. Read More »
Double Confession (1950) Ken Annakin, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, Crime, Drama
When his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers. Read More »
The Devil and Miss Sarah (1971) Michael Caffey, Gene Barry, Janice Rule, James Drury, Horror, Western
A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man’s wife to try to possess her and help him escape. Read More »
Das fidele Gefängnis / The Merry Jail (1917) Ernst Lubitsch, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Paul Biensfeldt, Comedy
Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »
Varian’s War (2001) Lionel Chetwynd, William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Matt Craven, Drama, War
After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry Read More »
Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem / Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) Jindrich Polák, Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Read More »
Szindbád / Sinbad (1971) Zoltán Huszárik, Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai, Eva Leelossy, Drama
An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. Read More »
The Shuttered Room (1967) David Greene, Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Horror
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. Read More »
Stín kapradiny / The Shadow of the Ferns (1984) Frantisek Vlácil, Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszynski, Miroslav Machácek, Crime, Drama
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother Read More »
Wall of Noise (1963) Richard Wilson, Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, Dorothy Provine, Drama
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. Read More »
The Talk Of the Town (1942) George Stevens, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
In suburban Lochester, New England, three people end up living together in high school teacher Nora Shelley’s rental house. Read More »
Piccadilly Jim (1936) Robert Z. Leonard, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Comedy, Romance
Jim’s father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. Read More »
Pleasure or Pain (2013) Zalman King, Malena Morgan, Christos Vasilopoulos, Kayla Jane, Drama, Thriller, Erotic
A wealthy real estate developer takes a young woman from an everyday mundane life and shows her a world of decadence and debauchery that pushes her sexual limits to the brink.
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