1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Read More »
Romance
Crazy Desire (1962) Luciano Salce, Ugo Tognazzi, Catherine Spaak, Béatrice Altariba
A middle-aged and slightly conservative businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one named Francesca. Read More »
Higher and Higher (1943) Tim Whelan, Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra
Formerly rich Mr. Drake is broke…with his household staff’s wages seven months in arrears. Read More »
Cass Timberlane (1947) George Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. Read More »
Wings (1927) William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots in WW1. Read More »
Rose-Marie (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen
Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. Read More »
Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war Read More »
An Unmarried Woman (1978) Paul Mazursky, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. Read More »
Song Of The Scarlet Flower (1919) Mauritz Stiller, Lars Hanson, Greta Almroth, Lillebil Ibsen
Olof is the restless son of a wealthy farmer. He meets Annikki and brings her to the evening dance. Read More »
Theres No Business Like Show Business (1954) Walter Lang, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O’Connor
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. Read More »