Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. Read More »
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Rosemarys Baby (1968) Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Drama, Horror
Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. Read More »
Burma Convoy (1941) Noel M. Smith, Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Charles Bickford plays the boss of a group of American truck drivers on the Burma Road. Read More »
Woman in Hiding (1950) Michael Gordon, Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Chatos Land (1972) Michael Winner, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Western
Half-Apache Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) finds himself in a bar fight with a bigoted sheriff and kills the man to save his own life. Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »
Meeting Venus (1991) István Szabó, Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Kiri Te Kanawa, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. Read More »
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Drama
Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Read More »
Unspeakable Acts (1990) Linda Otto, Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Sam Behrens, Biography, Drama
Horrendous acts of sexual abuse were discovered at Miami’s Country Walk Day Care Center in 1984. Read More »