Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Read More »
Drama
Murder by Proxy / Blackout (1954) Terence Fisher, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
An American in London, down on his luck, runs into a beautiful blonde in a bar who offers him a lot of money to marry her. Read More »
An American in Paris (1951) Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Musical, Romance, Drama
Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Read More »
Black Market Baby (1977) Robert Day, Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz Jr., Jessica Walter, Drama
A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby’s father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.
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Boots Malone (1952) William Dieterle, William Holden, Stanley Clements, Basil Ruysdael, Drama, Sport
Boots Malone is jockey’s agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. Read More »
Duffy of San Quentin (1954) Walter Doniger, Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly, Crime, Drama
Based on the book and the reflections of San Quentin Prison Warden Clinton T. Duffy, the film is episodic and rambling in nature but, unlike most prison dramas, there are touches of humor. Read More »
The Bay Boy (1984) Daniel Petrie, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Drama
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? Read More »
Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama
James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
Pushover (1954) Richard Quine, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. Read More »
Quelqu’un derrière la porte / Someone Behind the Door (1971) Nicolas Gessner, Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Crime, Drama
Dr. Laurence Jeffries, a neurosurgeon, intent on his research, neglects his wife Frances. The frustrated woman accordingly takes a lover, Paul Damien, a French journalist. Read More »