In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
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Princess Chang Ping (1976) John Woo, Kim Sung Lung, Shuet Shi Mui, Kim-Dan Chu
Love story of Princess Changping, the last princess of the Ming Dynasty in China. Read More »
Beauties of the Night (1952) René Clair, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »
Sadie McKee (1934) Clarence Brown, Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone
The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family. Read More »
Cisco Pike (1972) Bill Norton, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, Gene Hackman
Cisco is an ex-rock star, famous in the 1960s, whose life and career has been a mess because of drugs. Read More »
Outside the Law (1920) Tod Browning, Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing Read More »
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) Irwin Allen, Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. Read More »
Torch Singer (1933) Alexander Hall, George Somnes, Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Drama, Musical, Romance
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. 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 »
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 »
Nine Queens (2000) Fabián Bielinsky, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice, María Mercedes Villagra, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Read More »
Wonderland (1999) Michael Winterbottom, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Drama
There’s little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. Read More »
The Red and the Black (1954) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Drama, Romance
It’s no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era Read More »
The Garment Jungle (1957) Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich, Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
During the 1950s, the New York garment industry is going through a turmoil. Read More »