The film dramatizes about a dozen vignettes from the life of St. Francis and his early followers Read More »
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Mrs. Mike (1949) Louis King, Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J.M. Kerrigan
While visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O’Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. Read More »
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965) Gottfried Reinhardt, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford
During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Read More »
Blazing Saddles (1974) Mel Brooks, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. Read More »
Loos (1989) Theo van Gogh, Tom Jansen, Renée Fokker, Marie Kooyman
A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion. Read More »
Goldengirl (1979) Joseph Sargent, Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens
A neo-Nazi doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed Read More »
Dinky (1935) Howard Bretherton, D. Ross Lederman, Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor
Mrs. Daniels has been framed on a fraud charge and sent to prison. Read More »
Weekend Lover (1995) Ye Lou, Nai An, Hongshen Jia, Xiaoqing Ma
The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Read More »
A Special Cop in Action (1976) Marino Girolami, Maurizio Merli, Raymond Pellegrin, John Saxon
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. Read More »
Paracelsus (1943) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Harry Langewisch, Annelies Reinhold
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Read More »