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The Long Gray Line (1955) John Ford

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer Read More »
Pieces AKA Mil gritos tiene la noche (1982) Juan Piquer Simón, Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña

While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Read More »
The Duellists (1977) Ridley Scott, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney

Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. Read More »
The Magnetic Monster (1953) Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock, Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron

Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart Read More »
The Baby (1973) Ted Post, Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill

A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. Read More »
The Damned AKA Les maudits (1947) René Clément, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly

Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers Read More »
Street of Shame AKA Akasen Chitai (1956) Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao

Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »
Nights and Weekends (2008) Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Jay Duplass

The film recounts a long-distance relationship between two people, Mattie and James Read More »
Patrick (1978) Richard Franklin, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar

After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital Read More »
The Grissom Gang (1971) Robert Aldrich, Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish Read More »
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) John Ford, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden

When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne Read More »
Cradle Will Rock (1999) Tim Robbins, Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack

In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program Read More »
Cahill U.S. Marshall (1973) Andrew V. McLaglen, John Wayne, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes

J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they’ve got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks Read More »
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)

Kru is a pioneer, living deeper in the jungle of northern Siam than any of his predecessors. Read More »