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The Assassination Bureau (1969) Basil Dearden, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Sonya Winter Read More »
Rain (1932) Lewis Milestone, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr., William Gargan
For residents on the idyllic South Seas island of Pago Pago, life is simple until Read More »
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997) Harry Sinclair, Danielle Cormack, Joel Tobeck, Ian Hughes
Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. Read More »
The Bigamist (1953) Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine, Edmund Gwenn
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. Read More »
The Great McGinty (1940) Preston Sturges, Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited Read More »
Christmas in July (1940) Preston Sturges, Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune Read More »
Android (1982) Aaron Lipstadt, Klaus Kinski, Don Keith Opper, Brie Howard
Eccentric scientist, Dr. Daniel, and his shy, clumsy assistant, Max Read More »
Run, Man, Run AKA Corri uomo corri (1968) Sergio Sollima, Tomas Milian, Donald O’Brien, Linda Veras
A knife-wielding Mexican ne’er-do-well is tasked by a scholar with locating $3 million Read More »
Animal Crackers (1930) Victor Heerman, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. Read More »
Darkness in Tallinn AKA Tallinn pimeduses (1993) Ilkka Järvi-Laturi, Ivo Uukkivi, Milena Gulbe, Monika Mäger
In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank Read More »
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) James Nguyen, Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore, Tippi Hedren
In the town of Half Moon Bay, California, an epidemic is on the horizon: a Birdemic. Read More »
Separate Lies (2005) Julian Fellowes, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Hermione Norris
A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. Read More »
No Way Out (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital Read More »
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) John M. Stahl, Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train and are attracted to each other. Read More »