Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. Read More »
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‘Gung Ho!’: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders (1943) Ray Enright, Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr.
Seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. Read More »
Air Mail (1932) John Ford, Pat O’Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart
Level headed Mike Miller runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking Read More »
Show Boat (1929) Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath, Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy
The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy Read More »
Upstream (1927) John Ford, Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers
Among the residents of a theatrical boarding house is the last member of a once great acting family, down on his luck. Read More »
Tanganyika (1954) André De Toth, Van Heflin, Ruth Roman, Howard Duff
In 1903 Kenya, tough colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken Read More »
Dimka AKA Ya kupil papu (1963) Ilya Frez, Aleksei Zagorsky, Olga Lysenko, Vladimir Treshchalov
It’s the story of a boy named Dimka (Alyosha Zagorsky), the young son of a lovely young widowed woman (Olga Lysenko) who is taking work as a typist. Read More »
Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading Read More »
The Europeans (1979) James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy
It’s the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe Read More »
The Strange Summer AKA Liebmann (2016) Jules Herrmann, Godehard Giese, Adeline Moreau, Fabien Ara
The teacher Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside to leave his former life in Germany behind. Read More »
The Hamburg Cell (2004) Antonia Bird, Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Read More »
Heat (1972) Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Joey, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent Read More »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin
1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
On the Line (1984) José Luis Borau, David Carradine, Scott Wilson, Victoria Abril
A Border Patrol Agent is determined to catch his old nemesis Read More »
Miracle on Main Street (1939) Steve Sekely, Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr.
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Read More »