
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who cadges meals, drinks Read More »
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My Love Came Back (1940) Curtis Bernhardt, Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Read More »
Saratoga (1937) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore

Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Read More »
Kafka (1991) Steven Soderbergh, Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. Read More »
Enemies, A Love Story (1989) Paul Mazursky, Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin

Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi Read More »
Disaster on the Coastliner (1979) Richard C. Sarafian, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, Robert Fuller

Victor Prescott, who’s real name is Jim Waterman, modifies the computer controlling the railroad track Read More »
Nickelodeon (1976) Peter Bogdanovich, Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O’Neal

This homage to the childhood days of the motion pictures starts in 1910, when the young attorney Leo Harrigan by chance meets a motion picture producer. Read More »
Uneasy Terms (1948) Vernon Sewell, Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Faith Brook

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Read More »
Comrades (1986) Bill Douglas, Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman

The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed Read More »
Hot Tomorrows (1977) Martin Brest, Ken Lerner, Ray Sharkey, Hervé Villechaize

A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. Read More »