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 »