A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Read More »
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Comedy
Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won’t marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. Read More »
The Charlatan (1929) George Melford, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Rockliffe Fellowes, Thriller, Crime
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Read More »
Palio (1932) Alessandro Blasetti, Leda Gloria, Laura Nucci, Guido Celano, Drama
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance’ to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe’ chanteuse. Read More »
The Champ (1979) Franco Zeffirelli, Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder, Drama, Sport
Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J. Read More »
Hard to Handle (1933) Mervyn LeRoy, James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Comedy, Romance
Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. Read More »
Heart of the Rockies (1951) William Witney, Roy Rogers, Trigger, Penny Edwards, Western
Roy Rogers, a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker where young first-offenders can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. Read More »
Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) Pere Portabella, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda, Documentary, Horror
An experimental film using the stock footage of Jeas Franco’s Count Dracula with an atmospheric sound track to create a subversive experience. Read More »
Charade (1963) Stanley Donen, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Regina Lampert, a Paris based American, has decided to divorce her Swiss husband, Charles Lampert, because of the secrets and lies that have pervaded their marriage Read More »
Mabo (2012) Rachel Perkins, Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Ewen Leslie, Biography, Drama
Mabo tells the story of one of Australia’s national heroes – Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15 Read More »