
The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. Read More »
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Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman

Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake

A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »
The Return of the Vampire (1943) Lew Landers, Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch

When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly Read More »
House of Games (1987) David Mamet, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum

A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. Read More »
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Douglas Sirk, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn

Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate Read More »
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Michael Curtiz, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell

In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum…and his ‘children.’ Read More »
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Terence Fisher, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir

Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Read More »
Killer! (1989) Tony Elwood, Duke Ernsberger, Andy Boswell, Keith Liles

A man is made insane by medical experiments and begins a murder and cannibalism spree. Read More »
House on Haunted Hill (1959) William Castle, Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. Read More »
Midnite Spares (1983) Quentin Masters, James Laurie, Gia Carides, Max Cullen

After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father’s untimely death Read More »
Ladies of Leisure (1930) Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman

Jerry Strong is the son of a wealthy businessman, but he wants to be a painter. Read More »
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Lewis Milestone, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott

In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Read More »
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) John M. Stahl, Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. Read More »
Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Preston Sturges, Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick

Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, naive director of fluffy films with a heart of gold Read More »