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Romper Stomper (1992) Geoffrey Wright, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Read More »
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken Takakura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara

A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. Read More »
The Strangeness (1985) Melanie Anne Phillips, Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Rolf Theison

A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in Read More »
Fun and Games (1971) Ray Austin, Alexandra Hay, Sandor Elès, Harry Baird

The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school Read More »
Love in a Fallen City / Qing cheng zhi lian (1984) Ann Hui, Chow Yun-Fat, Cora Miao, Gerry Barnett

A cynical playboy pursues an introverted divorcee in the decadence of Hong Kong on the eve of the 1941 Japanese invasion. Read More »
Die Kathedrale der neuen Gefühle / The Cathedral of New Emotions (2006) Helmut Herbst

A commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Read More »
5 Card Stud (1968) Henry Hathaway

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one. Read More »
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962) Werner Klingler, Gert Fröbe, Senta Berger, Helmut Schmid

It’s part of the long running Dr. Mabuse franchise and a remake of the 1933 movie with the same title, directed by Fritz Lang. Read More »
Man of the World (1931) Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. Read More »
Straight Time (1978) Ulu Grosbard, Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. Read More »
Compulsion (1959) Richard Fleischer, Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi

In 1924 Chicago, two rich college students, Judd Steiner and Arthur Strauss, decide they can commit Read More »
Dark Victory (1939) Edmund Goulding, Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart

Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. Read More »
L’atalante (1934) Jean Vigo, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon

When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him as he captains a river barge. Read More »
And God Said to Cain (1970) Antonio Margheriti, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten, Marcella Michelangeli

After 10 years in prison, a man who was betrayed by his ex-lover Read More »