
Returning to Shanghai to marry his fiancée, Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) a student of renowned martial arts teacher Huo Yuanjia Read More »
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Roger Corman, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher

The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Read More »
Diary of a Madman (1963) Reginald Le Borg, Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield

Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man’s execution. Read More »
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Paul Schrader, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson

An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them Read More »
Call of the Wild (1935) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. Read More »
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Wes Craven, Suze Lanier-Bramlett, Robert Houston, John Steadman

A family going to California accidentally goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. Read More »
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Ronald Neame, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters

A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. Read More »
The Black Pirate (1926) Albert Parker, Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. Read More »
Imitation of Life (1934) John M. Stahl

Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea’s husband died. Read More »
Polyester (1981) John Waters, Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey

Francine Fishpaw is an upper middle class suburban housewife in Baltimore. Read More »
Our Song (2000) Jim McKay, Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa Martinez

Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female Read More »
Fort Apache (1948) John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple

In John Ford’s sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday Read More »
Mr. Skeffington (1944) Vincent Sherman, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel

It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy Read More »
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2016) Simon Sheridan, Dexter Fletcher, David Sullivan, Dudley Sutton

Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington – Britain’s most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s. Read More »
Alice’s Restaurant (1969) Arthur Penn, Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick

Arlo Guthrie’s song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. Read More »