This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. Read More »
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Lust for Life (1956) Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness 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 »
Nightmare City AKA Incubo sulla città contaminata (1980) Umberto Lenzi, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio
In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies Read More »
Easy Living (1937) Mitchell Leisen, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. Read More »
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Anatole Litvak, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. Read More »
The Black Swan (1942) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Laird Cregar
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners Read More »
Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage Read More »
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) Mark Robson, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »
Whole New Thing (2005) Amnon Buchbinder, Aaron Webber, Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins
After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson is enrolled at his local high school. Read More »
In a Year with 13 Moons AKA In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Read More »
Not of This Earth (1957) Roger Corman, Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. Read More »
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (2000) Paul Tickell, Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
The Proposal (2018) Jill Magid, Federica Zanco
An artist fights to make the archives of Mexico’s most famous architect available to the public. Read More »
Husbands (1970) John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk
A common friend’s sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. Read More »