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Valley Girl (1983) Martha Coolidge, Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily

Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. Read More »
Road to Morocco (1942) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour

Jeff and Turkey, two wild and crazy guys adrift on a raft in the Mediterranean Read More »
The Ape (1940) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O’Donnell

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio. Read More »
Sex and Fury AKA Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô (1973) Norifumi Suzuki, Reiko Ike, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema

Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. Read More »
The Big Clock (1948) John Farrow, Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Laughton

When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janoth commits an act of murder at the height of passion Read More »
Nashville (1975) Robert Altman, Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley

Five days in the Nashville country and gospel music scene, filled with stars, wannabe stars Read More »
Shining Sex (1976) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Evelyne Scott, Monica Swinn

Cynthia, an exotic dancer in a upscale resort in Southern France, is seduced by a strange couple Read More »
The Holcroft Covenant (1985) John Frankenheimer, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant

Noel Holcroft is a foreign-born American citizen working in New York as an architect. Read More »
Seraphim Falls (2006) David Von Ancken, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston

In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. Read More »
Vixen! (1968) Russ Meyer, Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page

Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. Read More »
A Scandal in Paris (1946) Douglas Sirk

The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 Read More »
The Set-Up (1949) Robert Wise, Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

Over-the-hill boxer Bill ‘Stoker’ Thompson insists he can still win, though his wife Julie pleads with him to quit. Read More »
Deadly Embrace (1989) David DeCoteau, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jack Carter, Mindi Miller

The pulsating, passion-driven story of a man, his wife, and the lovers they play their nasty cat and mouse games with. Read More »
The Addiction (1995) Abel Ferrara, Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra

A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood. Read More »