In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man’s wife as his own. Read More »
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The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »
Something for Everyone (1970) Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins
Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Read More »
One Way Street (1950) Hugo Fregonese, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea
Shortly after a bank robbery, gangster John Wheeler and his henchmen hide in a small apartment, awaiting for the rest of the gang to arrive. Read More »
Montparnasse 19 (1958) Jacques Becker, Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Read More »
Raising the Wind (1961) Gerald Thomas, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Paul Massie
A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together. Read More »
The Secret Place (1957) Clive Donner, Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, Michael Brooke
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a smalltime gang of hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery. Read More »
Wharf Angel (1934) William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, Preston Foster
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright’s bar. Read More »
Bengazi (1955) John Brahm, Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson
An American with a shady past, John Gilmore and an Irishman without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan Read More »
Interrupted Melody (1955) Curtis Bernhardt, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. Read More »
Bring Your Smile Along (1955) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle’) Read More »
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) David Lowell Rich, Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy
The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. Read More »
Silk Stockings (1957) Rouben Mamoulian, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris Read More »
Mystery in Mexico (1948) Robert Wise, William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. Read More »
Beket (2008) Davide Manuli, Fabrizio Gifuni, Paolo Rossi, Luciano Curreli
Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man’s world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. Read More »