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Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »
I Come with the Rain (2009) Tran Anh Hung, Josh Hartnett, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Byung-hun Lee

Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye Kline travels to Hong Kong in search of Shitao, the missing son of a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss. Read More »
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) Ken Annakin, Sam Itzkovitch, Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Walter Chiari

In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Read More »
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953) Arthur Crabtree, Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Sidney James

War time drama. Lili will not marry her true Love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star. Read More »
Night of the Demon (1957) Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis

Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader Julian Karswell. Read More »
One Exciting Night (1944) Walter Forde, Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart, Mary Clare

In wartime London, Vera gets mistaken for the girlfriend of a famous composer and invited to sing at a charity gala Read More »
Voyage to Cythera (1984) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Manos Katrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for. Read More »
The Human Factor (1979) Otto Preminger, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi

When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service’s African section Read More »
The One That Got Away (1957) Roy Ward Baker, Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe

This is the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to escape from imprisonment in Britain during the Second World War. Read More »