
H.P. Lovecraft meets Hollywood: Wilbur Whateley wants to help the Old Ones break through by consulting the Necronomicon, and Armitage must stop him. Read More »
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Ghost Story (1981) John Irvin, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Fred Astaire

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. Read More »
Camelot (1967) Joshua Logan, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero

The story of the marriage of England’s King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot. Read More »
Enbalming AKA Enbamingu (1999) Shinji Aoyama, Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige

Young female embalmer Miyako while performing the embalming process the head of the corpse shes restoring is stolen. Read More »
Pit Stop (1969) Jack Hill, Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn

Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a “new” form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. Read More »
Billy Budd (1962) Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas

H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars Read More »
The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times AKA La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972) Emilio Miraglia, Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman Read More »
Spite Marriage (1929) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle

Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances Read More »
Moby Dick (1956) John Huston, Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. Read More »
A Strange Adventure (1956) William Witney, Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English

A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder Read More »
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery

Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. Read More »
White Zombie (1932) Victor Halperin, Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn

In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance Read More »
One from the Heart (1981) Francis Ford Coppola, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia

Hank and Frannie don’t seem to be able to live together anymore. Read More »
Heart Like a Wheel (1983) Jonathan Kaplan, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Bruce Barlow

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Read More »
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) Terence Davies, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley

Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. Read More »