It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes Read More »
Algol: Tragedy of Power AKA Algol – Tragödie der Macht (1920) Hans Werckmeister, Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers. Read More »
Hotel Berlin (1945) Peter Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey
Near the end of WW II, a member of the German underground (Martin Richter) Read More »
Hotel Reserve (1944) Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell
An Austrian medical student living and working in France is hauled in by the police Read More »
In the Shadow of the Vultures AKA A Sombra dos Abutres (1998) Leonel Vieira, Vítor Norte, Diogo Infante, José Eduardo
1962 in Tras-os-Montes, a miners’ strike begins to be repressed by the National Guard. Read More »
I Stole a Million (1939) Frank Tuttle, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran
A grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. Read More »
Chicago Confidential (1957) Sidney Salkow, Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran
An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. Read More »
The Sap from Syracuse (1930) A. Edward Sutherland, Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Granville Bates
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken Read More »
The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) Richard Whorf, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a servicemen’s canteen and meets a USO hostess. Read More »
Small World AKA Je n’ai rien oublié (2010) Bruno Chiche, Gérard Depardieu, Alexandra Maria Lara, Françoise Fabian
Sixty year-old Conrad Lang has Alzheimer’s. Though he’s losing his short-term memory Read More »