Small time racketeer Marc Fury agrees to plead self-defense for a murder committed by gang boss Joe Farrow in exchange for Farrow’s I.O.U. for $50,000. Read More »
Film-Noir
Women’s Prison (1955) Lewis Seiler, Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore
During the 1950s, two women inmates are sent to a maximum security state prison. Read More »
Federal Agent at Large (1950) George Blair, Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Kent Taylor
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. Read More »
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957) Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Marcel Dalio
An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor) Read More »
Framed (1947) Richard Wallace, Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan
Mike Lambert, unemployed mining engineer, arrives in a small town with a bang when the brakes fail on the truck he’s driving. Read More »
Fingers at the Window (1942) Charles Lederer, Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone
The City of Chicago is gripped by an Axe Murderer. The streets are empty at night as there has been six murders Read More »
Lure of the Swamp (1957) Hubert Cornfield, Marshall Thompson, Willard Parker, Joan Vohs
Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou. Read More »
Julie (1956) Andrew L. Stone, Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
Her new husband’s behaviour convinces Julie Benton that his jealousy is dangerous Read More »
Cargo to Capetown (1950) Earl McEvoy, Broderick Crawford, Ellen Drew, John Ireland
The plot involves Ireland, captain of a tired oil tanker, and Crawford, the ship’s engineer. Read More »
Beyond the Day AKA Fuori dal Giorno (1983) Paolo Bologna, Leonardo Treviglio, Ennio Fantastichini, Angelica Ippolito
Outside of the day. Leo has a dream: to make a movie in the great outskirts of the metropolis (Rome). Read More »
Violent Saturday (1955) Richard Fleischer, Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally
A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. Read More »
Hoodlum Empire (1952) Joseph Kane, Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker
A former gangster who joined the army during World War II and became a hero is now leading a respectable life, out of the rackets. Read More »
Summer Storm (1944) Douglas Sirk, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor Read More »
A Woman’s Secret (1949) Nicholas Ray, Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
Susan is in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up singing. Read More »
The Crooked Way (1949) Robert Florey, John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is released from a veteran’s hospital Read More »