Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Read More »
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Great Expectations (1934) Stuart Walker, Henry Hull, Phillips Holmes, Jane Wyatt, Drama, Romance
Nine year-old orphan ‘Pip’ Pirrip lives with his harridan older sister and her hen-pecked but good-natured blacksmith husband Joe Gargery in rural, Regency-Period Britain. Read More »
Escape Clause (1996) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Andrew McCarthy, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A man finds out from a would be killer that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Read More »
Dream Man (1995) René Bonnière, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Greenwood, Andrew McCarthy, Thriller
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. Read More »
Mister Roberts (1955) John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Comedy, Drama, War
Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. Read More »
Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Read More »
Death of a Salesman (1966) Alex Segal, Stanley Adams, Edward Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Drama
An abridged award-winning TV adaptation of a famous play about an aging traveling salesman who’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Read More »
Tell It to the Marines (1926) George W. Hill, Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
U.S. Marine Sergeant O’Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, ‘Skeets’ Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. Read More »
Lyrical Nitrate (1991) Peter Delpeut, Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm, Documentary
This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. Read More »
Man Wanted (1932) William Dieterle, Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Romance, Comedy, Drama
Lois is the editor of the 400 Magazine and is a work-a-holic. When Tom comes to her office to sell her a rowing machine, he leaves as her personal secretary. Read More »
Two on a Guillotine (1965) William Conrad, Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Mystery, Horror
Duke Duquesne is a very eccentric magician, and owing to his lifestyle his two-year-old daughter, Cassie, is sent away to live with an aunt. Read More »
Lady in the Lake (1947) Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
The camera shows Phillip Marlowe’s view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s book. Read More »
Hitlers Children (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis, Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Drama, Romance
This propaganda piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols’ American school in Berlin is next door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Read More »
The Bramble Bush (1960) Daniel Petrie, Richard Burton, Barbara Rush, Jack Carson, Drama
A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. Read More »
Helter Skelter (1976) Tom Gries, George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and ‘control’ committed numerous murders. Read More »