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The Man I Married (1940) Irving Pichel, Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Drama
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »
The Toy Tiger (1956) Jerry Hopper, Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Tim Hovey, Comedy
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Read More »
Deported (1950) Robert Siodmak, Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Read More »
Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Drama, Romance
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. Read More »
White Nights (1985) Taylor Hackford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Drama
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. Read More »
Young Fury (1964) Christian Nyby, Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, William Bendix, Western
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. Read More »
Little Old New York (1940) Henry King, Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn’t. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
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Miss Julie (1999) Mike Figgis, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Drama
Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex strictures of class bind a man and a woman. Read More »
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Drama, Western
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »
Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Read More »
Sword in the Desert (1949) George Sherman, Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Action, Drama, History, War
Cynical freighter captain Mike Dillon hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine. Read More »
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Action, Adventure
The young D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. Read More »
Lo sbarco di Anzio / Anzio (1968) Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan
Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. Read More »
Oviri / The Wolf at the Door (1986) Henning Carlsen, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Biography, Drama
This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover. Read More »