
Boots Malone is jockey’s agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. Read More »
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Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama

James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
Pushover (1954) Richard Quine, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. Read More »
Chicago Deadline (1949) Lewis Allen, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Read More »
The Corsican Brothers (1941) Gregory Ratoff, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, Romance

Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta Read More »
First Love (1939) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Comedy, Musical

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. Read More »
Golden Salamander (1950) Ronald Neame, Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

British archaeologist David Redfern comes to Tunisia to catalog a collection of art relics and stumbles into evidence of a gun-smuggling racket. Read More »
Halls of Montezuma (1950) Lewis Milestone, Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Adventure, War, Drama, Action

The Marines attack a strongly held enemy island in the Pacific. Read More »
Daguerréotypes (1976) Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda, Documentary

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
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Glissements progressifs du plaisir / Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Michael Lonsdale, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Erotic

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. Read More »