
Life’s flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930’s Hollywoodland’s door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Read More »
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Dixie Dynamite (1976) Lee Frost, Warren Oates, Christopher George, Jane Anne Johnstone

A moonshiner has been given protection by the local sheriff. Read More »
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1969) Mark Robson, Carol White, Paul Burke, Mala Powers

A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered. Read More »
Breakout (1959) Peter Graham Scott, Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, William Lucas

A government official arranges prison breaks as a sideline, but the police steps in and his gang is caught. Read More »
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter Greenaway, Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert

Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner Read More »
Prudence and the Pill (1968) Fielder Cook, Ronald Neame, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote

Prudence is on the pill; so is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Read More »
The New Age (1994) Michael Tolkin, Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau

Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. Read More »
The Tormentors (1971) David L. Hewitt, James Craig, Chris Noel, Anthony Eisley

A wild gang of bikers who shamelessly idolize the Nazis, brutalizes anyone or anything that stands in their way. Read More »
The Lost Moment (1947) Martin Gabel, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet Read More »
Stand and Deliver (1988) Ramón Menéndez, Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Read More »