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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. Read More »
The Dark Corner (1946) Henry Hathaway

Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving Read More »
Ben-Hur (1959) William Wyler, Charlton Heston

Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Read More »
Too Late for Tears (1949) Byron Haskin

One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else Read More »
The Morning After (1986) Sidney Lumet, Jane Fonda

Alex Sternberg wakes up with a hangover and no memory of how she ended up in bed with a dead man. Read More »
Street of Crocodiles (1986) Stephen Quay

Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. Read More »
Sole Survivor (1984) Thom Eberhardt

Denise Watson is a TV station worker who is the only survivor of a unexplained Read More »
His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Kiwako Harada, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Watanabe, Tomokazu Miura

After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree Read More »
House of Wax (1953) André De Toth, Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures Read More »
My Mother and Her Guest (1961) Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hie, Shin Yeong-gyun, Yeong-seon Jeon

Ok-hui lives with her grandmother, her mother and the maid. Read More »
Damsels in Distress (2011) Whit Stillman, Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Lio Tipton

Violet and her two cohorts attempt to help their “less-fortunate” students at Seven Oaks College Read More »
Frankenstein 1970 (1958) Howard W. Koch, Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund

Baron Victor Von Frankenstein has fallen on hard times Read More »
Red Angel (1966) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. Read More »
Black Book (2006) Paul Verhoeven, Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman

Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. Read More »