Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Read More »
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Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Adventure
At the end of the 19th century,during the German colonial rule,railway engineer Robert Adamson is sent to the Kilimanjaro Region to find out why the railroad construction works have stalled. Read More »
Sleepwalker (1984) Saxon Logan, Joanna David, Nickolas Grace, Heather Page, Horror
Rich couple Angela & Richard travel to the home of brother and sister Alex and Marion for dinner but end up clashing with their hosts over their different views. Read More »
Return to Oz (1985) Walter Murch, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. Read More »
Tommy the Toreador (1959) John Paddy Carstairs, Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sidney James, Comedy, Musical
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Read More »
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) Terence Fisher, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A remake of “The Man in Half Moon Street” (1945) (qv.). Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Read More »
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) Anthony Pelissier, Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, Drama, Fantasy
In London, the young Paul Grahame lives with his upper class but financially broken family. Read More »
The Flaw (1955) Terence Fisher, John Bentley, Donald Houston, Rona Anderson, Crime, Thriller, Drama
A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. Read More »
Background (1953) Daniel Birt, Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Drama
In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. Read More »
The Wild Heart (1952) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Drama, Romance
A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Read More »
The Scamp (1957) Wolf Rilla, Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison, Colin Petersen, Crime, Drama
Mike Dawson, out-of-work burlesque actor, is too busy with his latest girlfriend, June Cunningham, to pay too much attention to his young son Tod and, as a result, the boy is running wild. Read More »
Helter Skelter (1949) Ralph Thomas, Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
This is the ultimate screwball comedy, its weird, but endearing. An heiress who is being courted by two gentlemen develops incurable hiccups after watching a comedic dinner-theater performance. Read More »
Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) Stanley A. Long, Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett, Comedy, Crime
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to “solve” a case that comes in. Complications ensue. Read More »
Macbeth (1971) Roman Polanski, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Drama, War, History
Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Read More »
El Norte / The North (1983) Gregory Nava, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. Read More »