The film is about the pursuit of a goal and tackles the anxieties of a young athlete who lives only for the race. Read More »
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Greetings (1968) Brian De Palma, Jonathan Warden, Robert De Niro, Gerrit Graham
An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. Read More »
Anyone Can Win (1963) Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. Read More »
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Franco Zeffirelli, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. Read More »
The Beacon (2009) Michael Stokes, Teri Polo, David Rees Snell, Elaine Hendrix
While trying to get their lives back on track after the loss of their four year old son, Bryn and Paul Shaw move to the charming old Beacon Apartments. Read More »
Chasing Amy (1997) Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee
Chasing Amy is the third installment in the “New Jersey Trilogy” from award-winning writer-director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma). Read More »
Spook Chasers (1957) George Blair, Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Darlene Fields
Hanging out in Mike Clancy’s diner, the Bowery Boys are engaged in their usual loafing sessions; Sach works on a puzzle book Read More »
The Howling (1981) Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
In a red light district, newswoman Karen White is bugged by the police, investigating serial killer Eddie Quist, who has been molesting her through phone calls. Read More »
Cabiria (1914) Giovanni Pastrone, Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna. Read More »
A New Life (2002) Philippe Grandrieux, Zachary Knighton, Anna Mouglalis, Marc Barbé
The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape. Read More »
The Honeymoon Machine (1961) Richard Thorpe, Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton
The crew aboard the USS Elmira are working on a project, code named Operation Honeymoon. Read More »
Peppermint Soda (1977) Diane Kurys, Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. Read More »
Only You (1992) Betty Thomas, Tom McFadden, Andrew McCarthy, Joel Murray
Clifford Godfrey is a doll house designer who, dumped by his girlfriend on Christmas Eve, meets a beautiful new girl and takes her to an island paradise. Read More »
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) Rosa von Praunheim, Berryt Bohlen, Bernd Feuerhelm, Ernst Kuchling
Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. Read More »
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) Paul Wendkos, Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger
While he studied at the university, Andrew Patterson, a successful professor, was initiated to the order of ‘The Brotherhood of the Bell’ Read More »