Oliver Lane is “The Solitaire Man,” a renowned jewel thief who is ready to retire and marry Helen Read More »
Romance
The Last Frontier (1955) Anthony Mann, Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston
Crude and uncivilized backwoods trapper Jed Cooper and his two partners sign up as scouts in a remote Oregon army fort Read More »
God’s Little Acre (1958) Anthony Mann, Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray
A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. Read More »
Portrait of Jennie (1948) William Dieterle, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. Read More »
Black Orpheus AKA Orfeu Negro (1959) Marcel Camus, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira
In the heady atmosphere of Rio’s carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Read More »
Happiness Ahead (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Dick Powell, Josephine Hutchinson, John Halliday
Joan’s parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. Read More »
Love and Money (1981) James Toback, Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski
A billionaire businessman hires a man to influence a South American dictator. Read More »
Lilli Marlene (1950) Arthur Crabtree, Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Richard Murdoch
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle’s café in Benghazi, Libya Read More »
City Girl (1930) F.W. Murnau, Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence
Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. Read More »
Malady of Love AKA Maladie d’amour (1987) Jacques Deray, Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli
Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. Read More »
The Imperfect Lady (1946) Lewis Allen, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Cedric Hardwicke
Millicent Hopkins, while touring with a dancing troupe in 1892, meets Clive Loring who is campaigning in the English Midlands for Parliament. Read More »
The Chambermaid on the Titanic AKA La femme de chambre du Titanic (1997) Bigas Luna, Olivier Martinez, Romane Bohringer, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. Read More »
Feathers in the Wind AKA Git (2004) Il-gon Song, Hyeong-seong Jang, Yong-cheol Kim, So-yeon Lee
Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island Read More »
Private Detective (1939) Noel M. Smith, Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson
Private detective “Jinx” Wilsnow is working on the case of a divorcée who is accused of murdering her ex-husband. Read More »
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) Irving Reis, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him Read More »