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The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cukor, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart

When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter Read More »
Lucky Luciano (1973) Francesco Rosi, Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi

Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal Read More »
My Darling Clementine (1946) John Ford, Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. Read More »
Highway 61 (1991) Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagiar, Earl Pastko

A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans Read More »
The Childhood of a Leader (2015) Brady Corbet, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin

A chronicle of the childhood of a post-World War I leader. Read More »
Rumble Fish (1983) Francis Ford Coppola, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane

Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. Read More »
The People Next Door (1970) David Greene, Eli Wallach, Julie Harris, Deborah Winters

Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night Read More »
The Warrior (2001) Asif Kapadia, Irrfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Aino Annuddin

Circa feudal India in the State of Rajasthan is a desert region that is ruled over by a cruel and sadistic Lord Read More »
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007) Larry Blamire, Daniel Roebuck, Susan McConnell, Fay Masterson

A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people Read More »
They Might Be Giants (1971) Anthony Harvey, George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford

In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes Read More »
Bad Moon (1996) Eric Red, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Paré, Mason Gamble

After being bitten by a werewolf in the jungle, Ted looks for a cure. Read More »
The Incredible Torture Show (1976) Joel M. Reed, Seamus O’Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster

In New York’s Soho district, the master of ceremonies Sardu runs the Theater of the Macabre Read More »
Tenement (1985) Roberta Findlay, Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house. Read More »
Journey to Italy / Viaggio in Italia (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban

Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples Read More »