Is there a link between the murder of five foreign sailors from the East whose bodies have been found on the San Pedro waterfront and the issue of one million counterfeit dollars in the USA? Read More »
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F.I.S.T. (1978) Norman Jewison, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. Read More »
Manila, Open City (1968) Eddie Romero, Charito Solis, James Shigeta, Alex Nicol, Drama, War
In early February 1945 as Allied Forces slowly closed the net around the Japanese army entrenched within the city ruins of Manila, the defeated Empire’s soldiers adopted a brutal and savage operation of persecution against the citizens. Read More »
Night of Dark Shadows (1971) Dan Curtis, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches. Read More »
Fragment of Fear (1970) Richard C. Sarafian, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Crime, Mystery, Drama
A young British author is plunged into a nightmare as he tries to solve his aunt’s murder in Italy. Read More »
Desperate Moment (1953) Compton Bennett, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War
In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. Read More »
Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) Thomas Carr, Laraine Day, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Carlson, Crime, Drama
Unscrupulous trial lawyer and his operatives fix a case involving a wealthy client accused of murder. He finds and exploits the weaknesses of three jurors who capitulate at first. Read More »
Screwball Hotel (1988) Rafal Zielinski, Michael Bendetti, Andrew Zeller, Jeff Greenman, Comedy
Three boys drop out of military school. They get jobs working at a hotel, but it’s about to go under. They decide to help the owner raise enough money to stay in business. Read More »
Tarzan and the Great River (1967) Robert Day, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr., Action, Adventure
Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. Read More »
Two Hands (1999) Gregor Jordan, Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Read More »
For Men Only (1952) Paul Henreid, Kathleen Hughes, Russell Johnson, Drama
A college professor begins to suspect that a student’s accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional “hazing” and was no accident. Read More »
Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Art-house, Horror, Drama
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Read More »
Orders to Kill (1958) Anthony Asquith, Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Film-Noir, Drama, War
A grounded American figter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis. Read More »
Valley of Hunted Men (1942) John English, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Drama, Western
It’s 1941 and three Nazis escape from a Canadian prison. Two are killed but the third kills Paul Schiller and assumes his identity. Read More »
The Green Man (1956) Robert Day, Basil Dearden, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Comedy
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. Read More »