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Miracle on 34th Street (1947) George Seaton

At the Macy’s Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Read More »
Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele

Of Glocca Morra, Ireland, Finian McLongeran, who has his own unique belief system of Irish legends Read More »
Westward the Women (1951) William A. Wellman, Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson

In a time when “The West” pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men Read More »
A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955) Tomu Uchida, Chiezo Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa

A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice. Read More »
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) Ken Annakin, Sam Itzkovitch, Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Walter Chiari

In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Read More »
Night of the Demon (1957) Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis

Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader Julian Karswell. Read More »
The Great American Girl Robbery (1979) Jeff Werner, Kristine DeBell, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis

A busload containing three cheerleading teams from 3 different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped. Read More »
Santa Claus (1959) René Cardona, José Elías Moreno, Cesáreo Quezadas ‘Pulgarcito’, José Luis Aguirre ‘Trotsky’

Santa Claus, high above the North Pole in his cloud-borne castle equipped with more surveillance devices than the Impossible Mission Force Read More »
Little Fugitive (1953) Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams

Joey, a young boy, runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother. Read More »
The Reckless Moment (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks

In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »
Alice Goodbody (1974) Tom Scheuer, Colleen Brennan, Daniel Kauffman, Keith McConnell

Sharon Kelly plays a naive waitress who sleeps her ways to bigger and bigger roles in a musical adaptation of Julius Caesar Read More »
Man from Deep River (1972) Umberto Lenzi, Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Prasitsak Singhara

A photographer on assignment in the rain forest is ambushed and held slave by a primitive tribe Read More »
Diamonds of the Night (1964) Jan Nemec, Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova

Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Read More »
Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter

Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Read More »