This film shows us the growth of Adolf Hitler out of a tiny radical political adventurer Read More »
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Tiger Bay (1959) J. Lee Thompson, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills
Gille Jenkins, a 12 year old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement Read More »
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi) Read More »
Crazy Mama (1975) Jonathan Demme, Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 1950s America: opportunity, rock’n’roll, and the road. Read More »
The Hours and Time (1991) Christopher Munch, David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963. Read More »
A Child Is Waiting (1963) John Cassavetes, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Read More »
Not As a Stranger (1955) Stanley Kramer, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. Read More »
Crush (1992) Alison Maclean, Marcia Gay Harden, Donogh Rees, Caitlin Bossley
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash Read More »
The Furies (1950) Anthony Mann, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon Read More »
Gimme Shelter (1970) Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
In December of 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane Read More »
Ukikusa / Floating Weeds (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Read More »
Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse / The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Victor De Santis, Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse, Yvonne Furneaux
The final film in the Dr. Mabuse series is also truly the least of the series. Read More »
A Blonde Dream / Ein blonder Traum (1932) Paul Martin, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Willi Forst
A penniless artiste is distracted from her dreams of Hollywood stardom Read More »
Yoen dokufuden: Hitokiri okatsu (1969) Nobuo Nakagawa, Junko Miyazono, Reiko Ônobuta, Kô Nishimura
Okatsu, the daughter of a katana instructor must avenge a judge who rapes and kills his father. Read More »
An Early Frost (1985) John Erman, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. Read More »