Brimstone and Treacle is a modern gothic tale about the evil that men do and the price that must be paid to make things right. Read More »
Drama
Carnival Story (1954) Kurt Neumann, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, Drama
In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Read More »
Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva, Drama
A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle Read More »
Island in the Sun (1957) Robert Rossen, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Drama, Romance
Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule, it focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. Read More »
Garbo Talks (1984) Sidney Lumet, Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Comedy, Drama
Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won’t cross a picket line for her son’s wedding. Read More »
Joyless Street (1925) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Drama
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. Read More »
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Irving Cummings, Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Biography, Drama, History
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. Read More »
The Show-Off (1926) Malcolm St. Clair, Ford Sterling, Claire McDowell, Charles Goodrich, Comedy, Drama
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family’s finances to the brink of ruin. Read More »
The Hustler (1961) Robert Rossen, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, Drama, Sport
“Fast” Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. Read More »
The Seventh Cross (1944) Fred Zinnemann, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Drama, War
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
Koshoku ichidai otoko / A Lustful Man (1961) Yasuzô Masumura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Tamao Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. Read More »
The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Action, Adventure, Drama
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. Read More »
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983) Claude Goretta, Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Drama
A TV journalist and his assistant come to interview a sociologist whose books deal with world hunger Read More »
Fear Me Not (2008) Kristian Levring, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Emma Sehested Høeg, Drama, Thriller
42-year-old Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig – without telling his family. Read More »