Two million dollars have vanished into thin air. Lemmy Caution, an American agent, is assigned by the FBI to investigate in Casablanca. Read More »
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Hideaway (1937) Richard Rosson, Fred Stone, Emma Dunn, Marjorie Lord
A homeless family lays claim to an abandoned house only to discover gangsters use it as a safe house after committing robberies. Read More »
The Statement (2003) Norman Jewison, Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates
Set in modern day France, the story of Pierre Brossard who, as a young man, was a Nazi executioner under the Vichy regime. Read More »
Barnacle Bill (1957) Charles Frend, Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors…but is all too susceptible to seasickness. Read More »
Motor Psycho! (1965) Russ Meyer, Haji, Alex Rocco, Steve Oliver
Three bad boy motorcyclists get kicks raping other people’s women and generally being a nuisance. Read More »
Lady of the Tropics (1939) Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton, Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut
A party of yachting jet-setters visit French Saigon, where they meet lovely Manon deVargnes Read More »
This is the Army (1943) Michael Curtiz, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »
Cargo of Love (1968) Anton Holden, Sheila Britt, Gloria Irizarry, Tony Pascal
A young woman answering an ad for a traveling companion winds up drugged, kidnapped and in the clutches of a white slavery ring. Read More »
The Brother from Another Planet (1984) John Sayles, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter
The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. Read More »
Poison (1991) Todd Haynes, Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman
Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In “Hero,” Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. Read More »
The Crowning Experience (1960) Marion Clayton Anderson, Rickard Tegström, Muriel Smith, Ann Buckles, Louis Byles
Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that Read More »
Sins of Rome (1953) Riccardo Freda, Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina, Yves Vincent
74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Read More »
Murder by the Book (1987) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier Read More »
Hills of Home (1948) Fred M. Wilcox, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Read More »
Show Boat (1951) George Sidney, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
The “Cotton Blossom”, owned by the Hawk family, is the show boat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south. Read More »