The story of the voyage of the “Mayflower” in its historic voyage across the Atlantic to the New World. Read More »
Drama
Men Are Like That (1930) Frank Tuttle, Hal Skelly, Doris Hill, Clara Blandick, Drama, Comedy
This is the first sound version of George Kelly’s THE SHOW OFF. There was a silent version starring Ford Sterling a few years earlier and two MGM versions later on, one starring Spencer Tracy and the other Red Skelton. Read More »
Mokey (1942) Wells Root, Dan Dailey, Donna Reed, Robert Blake, Drama
Mokey is an eight-year-old boy whose father gives him too little attention and whose stepmother misunderstands him. His misdeeds are due to neglect and misunderstanding on the part of his elders.
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Ratboy (1986) Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A physically deformed and somewhat feral teenager whose face looks like the snout of a rodent lives in solitude and misery in a city dump. Read More »
Shûu / Sudden Rain (1956) Mikio Naruse, Setsuko Hara, Shûji Sano, Kyôko Kagawa, Comedy, Drama
Setsuko Hara plays Fumiko, whose unsuccessful marriage has made her become more and more cynical. When her niece, Ayako visits and complains about her own marriage, she is unsurprised. Read More »
Hitler’s Madman (1943) Douglas Sirk, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Drama, War
Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it. Read More »
Femmes femmes (1974) Paul Vecchiali, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Huguette Forge, Comedy, Drama
The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives Read More »
Edge of Eternity (1959) Don Siegel, Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O’Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. Read More »
Appointment with Venus (1951) Ralph Thomas, David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris, Comedy, Drama, War
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can’t prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. Read More »
A Summer Place (1959) Delmer Daves, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Drama, Romance
The Hunter family has long owned a mansion on Pine Island, a summer resort located off the Maine coast. Read More »
36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) Aparna Sen, Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Drama, Romance
After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. Read More »
Oklahoma Crude (1973) Stanley Kramer, George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Comedy, Drama, Western
It’s oil boom time in Oklahoma and Lena Doyle, a hard-bitten, cyncial feminist has a fight on her hands: the big oil companies don’t like the fact that she’s working a potentially profitable wildcat rig. Read More »
Izumi / Fountainhead (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, Yôko Katsuragi, Drama
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply. Read More »
Aizen katsura / The Love-Troth Tree (1938) Hiromasa Nomura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideo Fujino, Drama, Romance
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura (Uehara), falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi (Tanaka). But she’s got a secret: she’s a widow with a son. Read More »
Ghost of the China Sea (1958) Fred F. Sears, David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, War, Drama
A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way. Read More »