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The Passenger / Professione: reporter (1975) Michelangelo Antonioni, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre

A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. Read More »
Lady Killer (1933) Roy Del Ruth, James Cagney

When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals Read More »
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) John Badham, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor

Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter (Ted Ross) Read More »
The Good Fairy (1935) William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan

Luisa Ginglebusher (Sullavan) leaves the orphanage where she grew up to take a job as a movie theater usherette. Read More »
The Player (1992) Robert Altman, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward

A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. Read More »
Dog Day / Canicule (1984) Yves Boisset, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. Read More »
Bliss (1985) Ray Lawrence, Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones

Harry suffers a heart attack and has a near-death experience that changes his outlook on life. Read More »
The Hit (1984) Stephen Frears, Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke

Ex-gangster Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) has betrayed his former “colleagues” Read More »
Picture Snatcher (1933) Lloyd Bacon

Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. Read More »
Dark Intruder (1965) Harvey Hart, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith

The story takes place in 1890 San Francisco, where a series of gruesome murders attracts the attention Read More »
The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd

In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Read More »
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee

Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Read More »
Horror Rises from the Tomb / El espanto surge de la tumba (1973) Carlos Aured, Paul Naschy, Emma Cohen, Víctor Alcázar

In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Read More »
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »