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Copkiller (l’assassino dei poliziotti) (1983) Roberto Faenza, Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia
A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City apartment. Read More »
Banning (1967) Ron Winston, Robert Wagner, Anjanette Comer, Jill St. John
A playboy golf pro down is on his luck. Kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating he is forced to hustle for a living. Read More »
Renegades of the West (1932) Casey Robinson, Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates, Betty Furness
Tom Bagby has gone to prison to learn of his father’s killer. Read More »
Smithereens (1982) Susan Seidelman, Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell
An restless and abrasive young woman eschews the affections of a sensitive young portrait artist Read More »
Pacific Liner (1939) Lew Landers, Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post Read More »
The Cake Eaters (2007) Mary Stuart Masterson, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayce Bartok, Bruce Dern
‘The Cake Eaters’ is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected Read More »
The Invincible Barbarian (1982) Francesco Prosperi, Pietro Torrisi, Malisa Longo, Giovanni Cianfriglia
The peaceful countryside village of Solmen is savagely assaulted by wild Ungats led by bloodthirsty Magen. Read More »
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) Stanley Kwan, Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality Read More »
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) Clive Donner, Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower) Read More »
The Gypsy (1975) José Giovanni, Alain Delon, Paul Meurisse, Annie Girardot
Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. Read More »
Tabloid (2001) David Blair, Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Hurt
A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own. Read More »
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940) Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) Jean Renoir, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. Read More »
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) John Cromwell, Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. Read More »