
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs. Read More »
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Separate Tables (1958) Delbert Mann, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven

It’s the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Read More »
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Allan Arkush, Joe Dante, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, George Wagner

Lovely Candice Rialson, stars as aspiring actress, Candy Hope. Candy arrives in Hollywood, fresh from the Midwest. Read More »
New York, New York (1977) Martin Scorsese, Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander

The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman

Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake

A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »
The Return of the Vampire (1943) Lew Landers, Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch

When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly Read More »
House of Games (1987) David Mamet, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum

A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. Read More »
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Douglas Sirk, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn

Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate Read More »
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Michael Curtiz, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell

In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum…and his ‘children.’ Read More »