Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.
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Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Boris Sagal, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee
In this mystery, Holmes pursues his archenemy Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Read More »
Broadway Bill (1934) Frank Capra, Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Comedy, Drama
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Read More »
Abraham Lincoln (1930) D.W. Griffith, Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Biography, Drama, History
Brief vignettes about Lincoln’s early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates Read More »
Lansky (1999) John McNaughton, Richard Dreyfuss, Yosef Carmon, Mosko Alkalai, Drama, Crime
This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. Read More »
F.I.S.T. (1978) Norman Jewison, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. Read More »
Manila, Open City (1968) Eddie Romero, Charito Solis, James Shigeta, Alex Nicol, Drama, War
In early February 1945 as Allied Forces slowly closed the net around the Japanese army entrenched within the city ruins of Manila, the defeated Empire’s soldiers adopted a brutal and savage operation of persecution against the citizens. Read More »
Night of Dark Shadows (1971) Dan Curtis, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Kate Jackson, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches. Read More »
Fragment of Fear (1970) Richard C. Sarafian, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Crime, Mystery, Drama
A young British author is plunged into a nightmare as he tries to solve his aunt’s murder in Italy. Read More »
Desperate Moment (1953) Compton Bennett, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War
In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. Read More »