Indian scout Jim Read is picked by his commander to set up a meeting between Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and a representative from Washington to negotiate a peace treaty. Read More »
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The Leech Woman (1960) Edward Dein, Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
When a very old African woman offers an ambitious endocrinologist the secret of eternal youth, he decides to take his estranged and no-longer-young-and-beautiful wife along with him on the safari. Read More »
Yankee Buccaneer (1952) Frederick De Cordova, Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Adventure, History, Romance
A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas Read More »
Man of La Mancha (1972) Arthur Hiller, Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Read More »
Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler, Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Drama, Romance
A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Read More »
Midnight (1939) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Comedy, Romance
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. Read More »
Monkey Business (1931) Norman Z. McLeod, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Comedy, Musical
While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters while trying desparately to evade the ship’s crew. Read More »
Hanky Panky (1982) Sidney Poitier, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Architect Michael Jordan, a Chicago Architect, is New York on business. A beautiful stranger identifying herself as Janet Dunn, runs into the taxi cab he’s using. Read More »
Conseil de famille / Family Business (1986) Costa-Gavras, Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Comedy, Crime
French rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. Read More »
Kong shan ling yu / Raining in the Mountain (1979) King Hu, Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Chun Shih, Action, Drama
An esquire brings a female thief and his bailiff to search out a priceless handwritten scroll by Tripitaka, in a temple at the mountains. Read More »
Violette (2013) Martin Provost, Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Drama, Romance, Biography
Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Read More »
Galia (1966) Georges Lautner, Mireille Darc, Venantino Venantini, Françoise Prévost, Crime, Drama
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. Read More »
Tap Roots (1948) George Marshall, Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Drama, War, Western
Morna Dabney is engaged to soldier Clay MacIvor in the days before the War Between the States. Read More »
Off Beat (1986) Michael Dinner, Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Joe Gower’s job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Read More »
Head Office (1985) Ken Finkleman, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Comedy
Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel is promptly hired by Helmes’s company I.N.C. At INC, the one who gets ahead, does it by kissing ass, or over someone else’s dead body. Read More »