
Based on Ivan Turgeyev’s novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Read More »
Drama
Witness in the War Zone (1987) Nathaniel Gutman, Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Action, Drama, Mystery, War

Don Stevens is an ace reporter sent to Beirut, Lebanon to report on the Lebanese civil war. Read More »
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) Richard Loncraine, Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright, Drama, Thriller

Brimstone and Treacle is a modern gothic tale about the evil that men do and the price that must be paid to make things right. Read More »
Carnival Story (1954) Kurt Neumann, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, Drama

In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Read More »
Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975) Manoel de Oliveira, Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva, Drama

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle Read More »
Island in the Sun (1957) Robert Rossen, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Drama, Romance

Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule, it focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. Read More »
Garbo Talks (1984) Sidney Lumet, Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Comedy, Drama

Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won’t cross a picket line for her son’s wedding. Read More »
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Irving Cummings, Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Biography, Drama, History

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. Read More »
The Show-Off (1926) Malcolm St. Clair, Ford Sterling, Claire McDowell, Charles Goodrich

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family’s finances to the brink of ruin. Read More »
The Hustler (1961) Robert Rossen, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, Drama, Sport

“Fast” Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. Read More »