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Restless Natives (1985) Michael Hoffman, Vincent Friell, Ned Beatty, Joe Mullaney
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. Read More »
Rumble Fish (1983) Francis Ford Coppola, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. Read More »
The People Next Door (1970) David Greene, Eli Wallach, Julie Harris, Deborah Winters
Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night Read More »
Of Mice and Men (1992) Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Ray Walston
Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie Read More »
The Warrior (2001) Asif Kapadia, Irrfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Aino Annuddin
Circa feudal India in the State of Rajasthan is a desert region that is ruled over by a cruel and sadistic Lord Read More »
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007) Larry Blamire, Daniel Roebuck, Susan McConnell, Fay Masterson
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people Read More »
They Might Be Giants (1971) Anthony Harvey, George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford
In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes Read More »
Bad Moon (1996) Eric Red, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Paré, Mason Gamble
After being bitten by a werewolf in the jungle, Ted looks for a cure. Read More »
Topaze (1933) Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason
An honest and naive school teacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside Read More »
The Incredible Torture Show (1976) Joel M. Reed, Seamus O’Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster
In New York’s Soho district, the master of ceremonies Sardu runs the Theater of the Macabre Read More »
Tenement (1985) Roberta Findlay, Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant
A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house. Read More »
Journey to Italy AKA Viaggio in Italia (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples Read More »
The Dauphin AKA O Delfim (2002) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Alexandra Lencastre, Rui Morisson
Portugal, late sixties. Tomás Palma Bravo, the Dauphin, is the heir to a world in decay. Read More »
Paris Is Burning (1990) Jennie Livingston, Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey
A chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls Read More »