In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko Read More »
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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. Read More »
Road to Utopia (1946) Hal Walker, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
At the turn of the century, Duke and Chester, two vaudeville performers, go to Alaska to make their fortune. Read More »
Unhinged (1982) Don Gronquist, Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley
College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm… Read More »
Baron Blood AKA Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (1972) Mario Bava, Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. Read More »
Victor Victoria (1982) Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), a down-and-out British soprano, struggles to find work in the nightclubs of 1930s Paris. Read More »
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Robert Wise, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
The abuse Rocky Barbella endures at the hand of his father and subsequent run-ins with the law lead him in Read More »
The Mummy (1959) Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka Read More »
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) Gregory Ratoff, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. Read More »
Michael Collins (1996) Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts
After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior UK forces during the Easter Rising Read More »