
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 »
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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 »
Screwball Hotel (1988) Rafal Zielinski, Michael Bendetti, Andrew Zeller, Jeff Greenman, Comedy

Three boys drop out of military school. They get jobs working at a hotel, but it’s about to go under. They decide to help the owner raise enough money to stay in business. Read More »
Tarzan and the Great River (1967) Robert Day, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr., Action, Adventure

Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. Read More »
Two Hands (1999) Gregor Jordan, Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Read More »
For Men Only (1952) Paul Henreid, Kathleen Hughes, Russell Johnson, Drama

A college professor begins to suspect that a student’s accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional “hazing” and was no accident. Read More »