Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Read More »
Mystery
Return to Oz (1985) Walter Murch, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. Read More »
Panna a netvor / Beauty and the Beast (1978) Juraj Herz, Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Read More »
The Devil’s Mask (1946) Henry Levin, Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Based on the “I Love a Mystery” radio program (where most of the stories were told in serial fashion over several episodes): Searching through the wreckage of a crashed airline Read More »
The Snake Pit (1948) Anatole Litvak, Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Drama, Mystery
Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum…and can’t remember how she got there. Read More »
Sibirska Ledi Magbet / Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Andrzej Wajda, Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric, Drama, Mystery, Romance
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. Read More »
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948) Zoltan Korda, Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. Read More »
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) Robert Stevenson, Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Lord Southmere escapes from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious “Lotus X”, and is captured by Chinese spies who have been instructed to retrieve the microfilm from him. Read More »
The Killers (1964) Don Siegel, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. Read More »
The Killers (1946) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, “the Swede,” who’s expecting them. Read More »