A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
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Husbands (1970) John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk
A common friend’s sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. Read More »
Red Beard AKA Akahige (1965) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide Read More »
Putty Hill (2010) Matthew Porterfield, Sky Ferreira, Cody Ray, Dustin Ray
A young man’s untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss. Read More »
The Dunwich Horror (1970) Daniel Haller, Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
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 »
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 »