Based on a true story, Neapolitan gangster Giuseppe (Peppino) Navarra is credited with feeding the poor and needy during WW2 and in the years that followed. Read More »
Comedy
Strictly Dishonorable (1951) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Comedy, Romance, Musical
Strictly Dishonorable is a musicalized version of Preston Sturges’ cynical Broadway comedy of the same title, previously filmed sans songs in 1931. Read More »
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985) Linda Feferman, Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames, Maddie Corman, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Natalie Becker is staying at home studying and working on an essay to meet the president while her father is away. Read More »
Meet the Applegates (1990) Michael Lehmann, Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Giant preying mantis living in a south American jungle decide to move into suburban USA. Read More »
I Live My Life (1935) W.S. Van Dyke, Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Drama
Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece-where she meets, Terry, an archaeologist. Read More »
Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy – Disc One (1926-1931) Vitaphone Pioneers – Stars of Broadway, Vaudeville and Nightclubs
In 1926, Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone branch made movie history with its “sound-on-disc” recording process, and the studio-within-a-studio would go on to make a variety of short subjects Read More »
Touch (1997) Paul Schrader, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray Read More »
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Comedy, Horror
Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Read More »
Wives (1975) Anja Breien, Anne Marie Ottersen, Katja Medbøe, Frøydis Armand, Comedy, Drama
Though they were friends in school, the three women in this movie have not kept in touch. When they meet at an alumni meeting, they go off on a three-day jaunt together. Read More »
Escalation (1968) Roberto Faenza, Lino Capolicchio, Claudine Auger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Comedy
1968, London. Luca (Lino Capolicchio), the son of an Italian rich owner, is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties Read More »
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Comedy
The troubles begin when, in the absence of Lord Epping, his you partner, Dennis and the latter’s Aunt Della open up Eppings’ Read More »
Mexican Spitfire (1940) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods, Comedy
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita’s fiery Latin temper Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love. Read More »
Summer of 42 (1971) Robert Mulligan, Jennifer O’Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. Read More »
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »