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Körkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (1921) Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg

It’s New Year’s Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner Read More »
Les diaboliques (1955) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi. Read More »
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. Read More »
The Big Parade (1925) King Vidor, George W. Hill, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth

The idle son of a rich businessman joins the Army when the U.S.A. enters The Great War. Read More »
The Upright Sinner / Der brave Sünder (1931) Fritz Kortner, Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann, Dolly Haas

A small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it. Read More »
The Pyjama Girl Case (1978) Flavio Mogherini, Ray Milland, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michele Placido

In Australia, a retired police inspector is called to duty to solve the murder case of a young woman whose partially-burned body has been found on the beach. Read More »
American Hunter (1989) Arizal, Christopher Mitchum, Bill Wallace, Ida Iasha

A lethal hunter of bad guys tries to retrieve a microfilm containing information that would cause a Wall Street Read More »
Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen

After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Read More »
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Read More »
Love Letters (1945) William Dieterle, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. Read More »
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Hal Ashby, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. Read More »
Heroes For Sale (1933) William A. Wellman, Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon

The saga of Tom Holmes – a man of principles – from the Great War to the Great Depression. Read More »
The Raven (1935) Lew Landers, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews

A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi) Read More »
The War of the Worlds (1953) Byron Haskin, Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne

Earth is under attack in the chilling Cold War classic “The War of the Worlds” (1953). Read More »