
On 30 September 1659, the aristocratic British Robinson Crusoe’s ship sinks and he miraculously survives on a deserted island somewhere in South America. Read More »
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High, Wide and Handsome (1937) Rouben Mamoulian, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Musical, Western

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show Read More »
Girls in the Night (1953) Jack Arnold, Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A morbid and rugged look at life in the tenements of New York City. Chuck Haynes and his girl friend, Georgia Cordray, plan to rob a fake beggar of a supposed fortune Read More »
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Comedy, Western

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. Read More »
Brewster McCloud (1970) Robert Altman, Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Comedy, Fantasy

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. Read More »
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Norman Taurog, Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, Adventure, Family

Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Read More »
Psyche 59 (1964) Alexander Singer, Curd Jürgens, Patricia Neal, Samantha Eggar, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Alison Crawford lives a comfortable life with her husband Eric and their two children. Alison is blind and she knows that her illness is not physical but psychosomatic. Read More »
Come September (1961) Robert Mulligan, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Comedy, Romance

Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Read More »
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) H.C. Potter, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Comedy, Romance

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night Read More »
Moses the Lawgiver (1974) Burt Lancaster, Irene Papas, Aharon Ipalé, Joseph Shiloach, Drama

A biopic of Moses, who found the Ten Commandments and parted the Red Sea. Read More »