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Guns at Batasi (1964) John Guillermin, Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson
Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale is a spit-and-polish, by-the-book disciplinarian Read More »
The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided Read More »
Book of Lore (2007) Chris LaMartina, Mike Baldwin, D. Patrick Bauer, Matt Benicewicz
When Rick’s girlfriend is found brutally murdered, he and his friends must band Read More »
Code of Honor / Yi ben wu yan (1987) Billy Chan, Chun-Hsiung Ko, Wai Lam, Dick Wei
In Hong Kong, Ho Chen-tung is the aging Mob boss, living by a code of honor Read More »
I Walk Alone (1948) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner, Frankie’s former partner in bootlegging Read More »
Mademoiselle (1966) Tony Richardson, Jeanne Moreau
In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. Read More »
A Month in the Country (1987) Pat O’Connor, Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, John Atkinsons
Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Read More »
Giant (1956) George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Jordan ‘Bick’ Benedict Jr., is a wealthy landowner and cattle rancher who marries Read More »
The Dark Half (1993) George A. Romero, Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker
When Thad Beaumont was a child, he had an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. Read More »
Woman Who Came Back (1945) Walter Colmes, John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger
An old woman flags down a bus in woods near Eden Rock, Massachusetts. Read More »
Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins, Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano
“Punishment Park” is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews’s news coverage Read More »
Fifteen Stitches for the Soul / Quinze Pontos na Alma (2011) Vicente Alves do Ó, Rita Loureiro, João Reis, Marcello Urgeghe
On a day like many others, a woman leaves work. She’s late for a party, in the outskirts of Lisbon. Read More »
R.P.M. (1970) Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor Read More »
Raising Victor Vargas (2002) Peter Sollett, Victor Rasuk, Donna Maldonado, Kevin Rivera
Victor is growing up on the Lower East Side and is at the age where Read More »