In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Read More »
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Love Letters (1945) William Dieterle, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. Read More »
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Hal Ashby, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. Read More »
Heroes For Sale (1933) William A. Wellman, Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon
The saga of Tom Holmes – a man of principles – from the Great War to the Great Depression. Read More »
The Raven (1935) Lew Landers, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi) Read More »
The War of the Worlds (1953) Byron Haskin, Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Earth is under attack in the chilling Cold War classic “The War of the Worlds” (1953). Read More »
Final Score (1986) Arizal, Christopher Mitchum, Mike Abbott, Ida Iasha
A Vietnam War veteran who now living in Indonesia discovers that gunmen invaded his home, murdered his son and his wife. Read More »
Strait-Jacket (1964) William Castle, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson
Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. Read More »
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophüls, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that Read More »
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) Michael Cimino, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault Read More »