This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company Read More »
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Tora-San 2: Cherished Mother / Zoku otoko wa tsurai yo (1969) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Chôchô Miyako
Tora-san hears that his mother is still alive and returns to Tokyo to track her down. Read More »
Not As a Stranger (1955) Stanley Kramer, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. Read More »
The Sisters (1938) Anatole Litvak, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise
Sisters Louise Elliott, Helen Elliott and Grace Elliott – the daughters of pharmacist Ned Elliott and his wife Rose Elliott Read More »
It’s a Gift (1934) Norman Z. McLeod, W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol
The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife Read More »
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) Kenneth Bowser, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich
Based upon Peter Biskind’s book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers Read More »
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (2013) Barry Avrich, Patrice Adcroft, Audrey Arnold, Peter Bloch
This is the extraordinary story of a visionary, public-relations master, recluse and self-destructive optimist who went from the pinnacle of power Read More »
Actress / Joyu (1947) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Isuzu Yamada, Michiko Araki, Eitarô Shindô
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought Read More »
Widows’ Peak (1994) John Irvin, Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson
In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows’ Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Read More »
Docteur Chance (1997) F.J. Ossang, Pedro Hestnes, Elvire, Marisa Paredes
A young gangster deals with stolen works of art and other dodgy items under the order of his overbearing mother. Read More »