After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, Mexico Read More »
Comedy
Who Done It? (1956) Basil Dearden, Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. Read More »
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) Mark Sandrich, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting
Todd stars as Amelia Frisby, the owner of a beauty supply business. Andy Williams (Wheeler) and Dr. Bob Dudley (Woolsey) Read More »
Who’s Minding the Store? (1963) Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Ray Walston
Barbara is a very rich girl who falls in love with Norman Phiffier, a poor young man. Read More »
My Wife Is an Actress AKA Ma femme est une actrice (2001) Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Terence Stamp
Paris can boast a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses. Read More »
Kit Kat (1991) Daoud Abdel Sayed, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Read More »
Shelf Life (1993) Paul Bartel, O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner
On November 22, 1963, Mister and Misses St. Cloud hear about the tragic assassination of the President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Read More »
Many Happy Returns AKA Kyôso tanjô (1993) Toshihiro Tenma, Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Tamaki, Ittoku Kishibe
A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense Read More »
Lautrec (1998) Roger Planchon, Régis Royer, Elsa Zylberstein, Anémone
Life, passion, love…all these were part of Toulouse-Lautrec’s art. Read More »
The Passion AKA La passione (2010) Carlo Mazzacurati, Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Kasia Smutniak
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town. Read More »
Serenade for Two Spies AKA Serenade für zwei Spione (1965) Michael Pfleghar, Alberto Cardone, Wolfgang Neuss, Hellmut Lange, Barbara Lass
An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. Read More »
ITV Playhouse: Casting the Runes (1979) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Iain Cuthbertson, Jan Francis, Bernard Gallagher
Like Night of the Demon (1957), this adaptation is only very loosely based on the original ghost story by M.R. James. Read More »
Death in Brunswick (1990) John Ruane, Sam Neill, Zoe Carides, John Clarke
Carl Fitzgerald is down-on-his-luck until he meets Sophie, a beautiful Greek girl. Read More »
Desire (1936) Frank Borzage, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain Read More »
Hot Water (1924) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Josephine Crowell
Episodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey Read More »