
An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life Read More »
Film-Noir
Ladies in Retirement (1941) Charles Vidor, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes

In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live-in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso

Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »
All My Sons (1948) Irving Reis, Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians

All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. Read More »
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov

The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Read More »
Follow Me Quietly (1949) Richard Fleischer, William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey

For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he’s a self-appointed destroyer of ‘evil’ who only strikes on rainy nights. Read More »
The Desperate Hours (1955) William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy

After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house Read More »
The Fatal Witness (1945) Lesley Selander, Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, George Leigh

The young John Bedford fights with his wealthy old aunt Lady Elizabeth Ferguson. Read More »
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »
The Lost Moment (1947) Martin Gabel, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet Read More »