Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man’s execution. Read More »
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The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Paul Schrader, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson
An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them Read More »
Call of the Wild (1935) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. Read More »
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Wes Craven, Suze Lanier-Bramlett, Robert Houston, John Steadman
A family going to California accidentally goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. Read More »
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Ronald Neame, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. Read More »
The Black Pirate (1926) Albert Parker, Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. Read More »
Imitation of Life (1934) John M. Stahl, Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea’s husband died. Read More »
Tapeheads (1988) Bill Fishman, John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby
After being fired from their jobs as security guards, Josh and Ivan form Video Aces, a video production company. Read More »
Polyester (1981) John Waters, Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
Francine Fishpaw is an upper middle class suburban housewife in Baltimore. Read More »
Our Song (2000) Jim McKay, Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa Martinez
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female Read More »
Fort Apache (1948) John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
In John Ford’s sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday Read More »
Mr. Skeffington (1944) Vincent Sherman, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy Read More »
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2016) Simon Sheridan, Dexter Fletcher, David Sullivan, Dudley Sutton
Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington – Britain’s most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s. Read More »
Alice’s Restaurant (1969) Arthur Penn, Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick
Arlo Guthrie’s song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. Read More »
The Iceman Cometh AKA Ji dong qi xia (1989) Clarence Yiu-leung Fok, Maggie Cheung, Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen
A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he’s tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong. Read More »