
A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot’s sister. Read More »
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Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »
The Mother (2003) Roger Michell, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Drama, Romance

Toots and May’s marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Read More »
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) George Waggner, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Adventure, Romance, War, Western

Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
South (1919) Frank Hurley, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, J. Stenhouse, Documentary, Adventure

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by the fast-changing weather. Read More »
Breaking In (1989) Bill Forsyth, Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Adventure, Comedy

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has “larceny in his heart”, it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie. Read More »
Heavens Above! (1963) John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Comedy

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. Read More »
The Big Fisherman (1959) Frank Borzage, John Saxon, Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, Drama, History

Howard Keel stars as a stalwart Simon-Peter, the apostle of Christ called “the fisher of men” and the “Rock” upon whom the Christian Church was founded. Read More »
The Young Warriors (1966) John Peyser, James Drury, Steve Carlson, Jonathan Daly, Drama, War

In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans. Read More »