Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Read More »
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When the Cat Comes AKA Az prijde kocour (1963) Vojtech Jasný, Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský
Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes Read More »
Messiah of Evil (1973) Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Read More »
Le beau Serge (1958) Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. Read More »
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Elia Kazan, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty Read More »
Ninety Degrees in the Shade (1965) Jirí Weiss, Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínský
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. Read More »
The Neptune Factor (1973) Daniel Petrie, Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine
Aboard the R/V Triton, the Project Neptune team is doing oceanographic research. Read More »
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) Michael A. Hoey, Jon Hall, Arthur C. Pierce, Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Billy Gray
Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers Read More »
Closed Circuit AKA Circuito chiuso (1978) Giuliano Montaldo, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Umberto Gradi, Elisabetta Virgili
After a man is shot dead in his seat during a matinee showing of a Spaghetti Western Read More »
The Leather Boys (1964) Sidney J. Furie, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. Read More »
The Snorkel (1958) Guy Green, Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller
Paul Decker murders his wife in her Italian villa by drugging her milk and asphyxiating her by gas. Read More »
Roger Dodger (2002) Dylan Kidd, Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini
Set against the bright lights of Manhattan, a tale which takes a comic, urbane look Read More »
Gigi (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training Read More »
The Ambassador (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson
Robert Mitchum plays a controversial U.S. ambassador to Israel who tries to solve the Palestinian Read More »
Foxy Brown (1974) Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. Read More »