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Rockers (1978) Ted Bafaloukos, Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace, Richard ‘Dirty Harry’ Hall, Monica Craig
Making it in the music business in Kingston, Jamaica, is hard, and nobody knows it better than regularly unemployed drummer Horsemouth (Leroy Wallace). Read More »
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, Louise Lasser
Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. Read More »
Modigliani (2004) Mick Davis, Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Read More »
Desperate Search (1952) Joseph H. Lewis, Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina
The family and friends of two children lost in the wilderness mount a desperate search to find them. 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 »
Victims (1982) Tony Vorno, Lois Adams, Laura Borenstein, Ron Borenstein
Paulie is falling to pieces. His every encounter with the opposite sex ends in violence Read More »
Illegally Yours (1988) Peter Bogdanovich, Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars
Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Read More »
Erika’s Hot Summer (1971) Gary Graver, Erica Gavin, Walt Phillips, Merci Montello
Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them and then dumping them. Read More »
Where Adam Stood (1976) Brian Gibson, Alan Badel, Max Harris, Ronald Hines
“Where Adam Stood” is “based on” the 1907 autobiography, “Father and Son”, by Christian fundamentalist Read More »
The Falcon’s Adventure (1946) William Berke, Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward Brophy
The Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father’s secret formula for making diamonds. Read More »
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) Lee Sholem, Lex Barker, Vanessa Brown, Robert Alda
The Lionians are a tribe dying of a mysterious disease. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse Read More »
The Black Orchid (1958) Martin Ritt, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman
After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Read More »
Dangerous Paradise (1930) William A. Wellman, Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland
A young man named Heyst, soured on civilization, lives alone on a remote island “somewhere east of Suez”. Read More »
The Pumpkin Eater (1964) Jack Clayton, Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason
Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo’s eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. Read More »