The most important family in Hickoryville is (naturally enough) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. Read More »
Romance
Scarlet Négligée (1968) Ron Scott, Byron Lord, Shirley Boyd, Nancy Reeves, Crime, Romance
Three robbers hide out in a brothel. Read More »
Violette (2013) Martin Provost, Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Drama, Romance, Biography
Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Read More »
Le Lieu du crime / Scene of the Crime (1986) André Téchiné, Nicolas Giraudi, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Crime, Drama, Romance
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. Read More »
The Honeymoon Killers (1969) Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
In the early 1950s, Martha Beck, who lives with her slightly senile mother, is the head nurse in a Mobile, Alabama hospital. Read More »
The Mother (2003) Roger Michell, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Drama, Romance
Toots and May’s marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Read More »
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) George Waggner, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Adventure, Romance, War, Western
Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »
The Adventures of Tartu (1943) Harold S. Bucquet, Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. Read More »
Unelma karjamajalla / In the Fields of Dreams (1940) Teuvo Tulio, Sirkka Salonen, Olga Tainio, Kaarlo Oksanen, Drama, Romance
This rural melodrama, based on the play “Hälsingar” by Swedish playwright Henning Ohlson, tells a story of two brothers, one a honest, hard-working man and the other a womanizing gambler who threatens to ruin their house. Read More »
Loss of Innocence / The Greengage Summer (1961) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Comedy, Drama, Romance
When she arrives in the French region of Champagne in the company of her mother, her two sisters and her brother, sixteen-year-old Joss Grey is still just a teen-ager. Read More »
Bible! (1974) Wakefield Poole, Bo White, Caprice Couselle, Georgina Spelvin, Fantasy, History, Romance, Erotic
An anthology film crafted from three stories from The Bible: First story is, of course, Adam & Eve. Read More »
The Goodbye Girl (1977) Herbert Ross, Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. Read More »
The Tiger of Eschnapur / Der Tiger Von Eschnapur (1959) Fritz Lang, Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
An architect travels to the remote city of Eschnapur to oversee some work being done at the bequest of the local Maharajah. Read More »
Scenes from the Goldmine (1987) Marc Rocco, Catherine Mary Stewart, Cameron Dye, Steve Railsback, Drama, Music, Romance
A young songwriter/musician joins a rock group but pays the price for success when she becomes involved with the band’s leader and he tries to steal her music. Read More »
40 Carats (1973) Milton Katselas, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Comedy, Romance
Forty year old Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley owns her own Manhattan based real estate agency specializing in upscale Manhattan apartments. Read More »