
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 »
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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 »
Executive Suite (1954) Robert Wise, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson

Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named Read More »
Bound (1996) Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano

Intense, erotic crime thriller with Gina Gershon as an ex-con who Read More »