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The House of Mirth (2000) Terence Davies, Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron

Terence Davies’ The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background Read More »
The Time Element (1958) Allen Reisner

Small-time bookie and one-time bartender (William Bendix) asks a psychiatrist (Martin Balsam) Read More »
The Photon Effect (2010) Dan Poole, Derek Minter, Brian Razzino

During a freak accident involving an experimental microwave antenna, two tower engineers gain superhuman abilities. Read More »
King of the Jungle (2000) Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Cliff Gorman, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez

Seymour is a mentally challenged young man living in New York. Read More »
Angel (1983) Robert Vincent O’Neil, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn

15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Read More »
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) John Badham, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti

Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident Read More »
Tap (1989) Nick Castle, Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr.

Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. Read More »
Treeless Mountain / Na-moo-eobs-neun san (2008) So Yong Kim, Chae Gil Byung, Jung Gil Ja, Shin Hyun Je

What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Read More »
Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

Mild mannered paleontology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal Read More »
Assassination (1967) Emilio Miraglia, Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Ida Galli

In order to assign him to a dangerous mission, a CIA agent is subjected to an intervention Read More »
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) Frank Tashlin, Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O’Brien

The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture Read More »
The Mole People (1956) Virgil W. Vogel, John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont

On an archaeological dig in Asia, Dr. Roger Bentley finds a cuneiform tablet referring Read More »
The Body Snatcher (1945) Robert Wise, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell

In Edinburgh in 1831, Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane runs a medical school where Donald Fettes is a student. Read More »
I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Jacques Tourneur, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison

Young Canadian nurse Betsy comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica Read More »