One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Read More »
Drama
Baby Face Nelson (1957) Don Siegel, Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After being released from prison, Nelson goes to work for mob boss Rocca (Ted De Corsia), who eventually recognizes that a madman is in his service and turns him in to the cops. Read More »
The President Vanishes (1934) William A. Wellman, Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron, Paul Kelly, Drama
Like the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war. Read More »
Smashing the Spy Ring (1938) Christy Cabanne, Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Drama, Mystery
At Duncan Aircraft, John Baxter and Ted Hall, government agents impersonating factory employees, capture Quirk, a spy whose real name is Schuster. Read More »
The Family Secret (1951) Henry Levin, John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance, Crime, Drama
A lawyer faces a difficult decision when his son accidentally kills his best friend with no witnesses present, and a rift develops in his mother and father offer contradictory solutions to their sons dilemma. Read More »
Kizzu ritân / Kids Return (1996) Takeshi Kitano, Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto, Crime, Drama, Sport
Two buddies visit the schoolyard of the high school they used to attend, and remember their young and dumb days. They used to be the bullies in the school, until they find their own ways of life; one as a boxer, and the other as a member of the yakuza.
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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 »
Das Versprechen / The Promise (1995) Margarethe von Trotta, Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Romance, Drama
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. Read More »
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) Milos Forman, Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Biography, Drama
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
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Sapphire (1959) Basil Dearden, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. Read More »