
Rich old Cyrus West’s relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. Read More »
Mystery
The Whole Truth (1958) John Guillermin, Dan Cohen, Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

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 »
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 »
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 »
Youth of the Beast / Yajû no seishun (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Mystery

Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. Read More »