
Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell, however, there is no Mrs. Holliday: it’s the guise assumed by idealistic missionary Ruth (Durbin) to sneak a group of Chinese war orphans into the US. Read More »
Drama
Shadows In Paradise / Varjoja paratiisissa (1986) Aki Kaurismäki, Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Only connect. In gray, class-conscious Helsinki, Nikander is a stoic, solitary garbage man. Cigarettes, coffee, bingo games, and English lessons border his circumscribed life. Read More »
Le feu follet / The Fire Within (1963) Louis Malle, Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Drama

Alain Leroy is having a course of treatment in a private hospital because of his problem with alcohol. Read More »
Nella città l’inferno / …and the Wild Wild Women (1959) Renato Castellani, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Myriam Bru, Drama

A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Read More »
The Night Holds Terror (1955) Andrew L. Stone, Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare. Read More »
Juke Box Rhythm (1959) Arthur Dreifuss, Jo Morrow, Jack Jones, Brian Donlevy, Drama, Musical

While in New York to select her coronation wardrobe, Princess Ann is photographed dancing with Riff Manton, son of impoverished producer George Manton. Read More »
Toys in the Attic (1963) George Roy Hill, Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Drama

Sisters Carrie and Anna Berniers have been supporting their ne’er-do-well brother Julian through various failed businesses; now, he returns home with a sudden fortune and his young bride. Read More »
Television Spy (1939) Edward Dmytryk, William Henry, Judith Barrett, William Collier Sr., Drama, Sci-Fi

It’s 1939. The scientist Douglas Cameron invents a television device called the “Iconoscope”. With the Iconoscope television broadcasts can be send across the country. Read More »
Pursued (1947) Raoul Walsh, Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western

After his family is murdered in the 1880s, orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their nearby horse ranch. Read More »
Flight to Hong Kong (1956) Joseph M. Newman, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is attracted to a pretty novelist, Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush), who returns the attention. Read More »