Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. Read More »
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The Evil That Men Do (1984) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, Action, Drama, Thriller
Clement Moloch (Joseph Maher (R.I.P.))is a doctor (dubbed “the doctor”), but instead of using his skills to heal; he uses them to torture. Read More »
The Bellboy (1960) Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton, Comedy
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. Read More »
The Moderns (1988) Alan Rudolph, Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. Read More »
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) Terry Hughes, Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Musical, Drama, Thriller
Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. Read More »
The Dead Mother / La madre muerta (1993) Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Karra Elejalde, Ana Álvarez, Lio, Art-house, Drama, Thriller
Ismael Lopez (Elejaldo), a petty criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Read More »
Ulee’s Gold (1997) Victor Nunez, Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Drama
Ulee is called one day by his incarcerated son, Jimmy, asking for a favor. Jimmy will repay his debts if they save his wife, Helen, from hoodlums. Ulee must now risk his and his family’s lives to save Helen.
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Border Incident (1949) Anthony Mann, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Read More »
Ana Yurdu / Motherland (2015) Senem Tüzen, Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal G. Koldas, Semih Aydin, Drama
Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. Read More »
The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. Read More »