In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. Read More »
Crime
South of Pago Pago (1940) Alfred E. Green, Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer
In the 1890s, white-skinned Ruby Taylor (Frances Farmer) makes a strange journey from Singapore Read More »
Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) Gordon Wiles, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley
An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions Read More »
Beyond the Law (1968) Norman Mailer, Rip Torn, George Plimpton
Author Norman Mailer’s sporadic ventures into filmmaking are usually pretty bad, but never without interest. Read More »
Hell’s Outpost (1954) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, Chill Wills
A Korean war veteran attempts to help a small town mine owner develop his tungsten mine in spite of efforts by the town boss to stop him. Read More »
Blue Rita (1977) Jesús Franco, Martine Fléty, Sarah Strasberg, Dagmar Bürger
Nightclub owner and erotic dancer Rita Blue uses her place as a front for working undercover as a spy. Read More »
Velvet Hustler (1967) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Ruriko Asaoka, Jô Shishido
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. Read More »
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (1961) Seijun Suzuki, Kôji Wada, Mayumi Shimizu, Nobuo Kaneko
A carnivalesque tale of a young student who hooks up with a down-at-heels traveling circus troupe. Read More »
Society Smugglers (1939) Joe May, Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. Read More »
The Raven (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town Read More »
The Spider (1931) Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel
The great Chartrand (Edmund Lowe) can make people disappear and his assistant, Alexander, dazzles the crowd with his psychic abilities. Read More »
River’s Edge (1986) Tim Hunter, Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye
Based on the horrifying real-life murder of a young California girl, this “powerful portrait” (Newsweek) of deadly Read More »
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) Anthony Kimmins, John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter’s current boyfriend is a nasty character Read More »
Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. Read More »
Sins of the Night (1993) Gregory Dark, Nick Cassavetes, Deborah Shelton, Miles O’Keeffe
Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works as an insurance investigator for Anaconda Casualty Company Read More »