Tag Archives: USA

Rent (2005) Chris Columbus, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rosario Dawson, Drama, Romance, Musical

Rent (2005)
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) Robert Siodmak, George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood, Drama, Film-Noir

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last…thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?
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Family Business (1989) Sidney Lumet, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick, Crime, Drama

Family Business (1989)
Jessie McMullen (Sean Connery) is a widower, a tough guy and most of all, proud of his past as a career criminal (now semi-retired). He raised his son Vito (Dustin Hoffman) to follow in his footsteps, but Vito went straight once he had a son of his own, Adam (Matthew Broderick). Over the years, Vito became ashamed of his family’s criminal past. He has tried to raise his son right, which in his mind means keeping young Adam away from his deadbeat grandfather. Little does Vito know that this strategy has backfired; the mystery surrounding Jessie has caused Adam to idolize him.
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Mermaids (1990) Richard Benjamin, Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mermaids (1990)
After yet another failed relationship, Mrs. Flax (Cher) ups her family to the east coast to start all over again. Reluctantly dragged along with her is her daughter Charlotte – going through a very confusing time of her life – who wants to become a nun, and instead falls in love with a quiet, mild-mannered church employee, to the mixed response of her mother. Set at around the time of the Kennedy Assassination.
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The Godson (1971) William Rotsler, Keith Erickson, Jane Allyson, Jason Yukon, Action, Crime, Sexploitation, Erotic

The Godson (1971)
Most gangsters would be happy overseeing a house of hookers for the mob, but not Marco. The Godson of crime boss Leo Rocca, Marco doesn’t like being a mere assistant to Mr. Danielli, the sadist who runs the prostitution rackets, so when a hooker with a habit offers to give Marco insider information if he will keep her baby sister, Barbara, out of the business, Marco sees an opportunity for advancement and violently double-crosses Danielli. Put in charge of the organizations Number One Whorehouse-which features Scandinavian sex goddess Uschi Digart as one of the working girls-the overly ambitious Marco then tries to expand into the drug business and ends up triggering a mini mob war until Rocca orders Marco and his rival to fight “a duel” at a deserted trailer park with blonde little Barbara as bait…From the director of Mantis In Lace, The Godson is an offer you simply can’t refuse.
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Wolfhound (2002) Donovan Kelly, Jim Wynorski, Allen Scotti, Jennifer Courtney, Julie Cialini, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Wolfhound (2002)
Colum Kennedy went with his family to an Irish village to visit the places of origin of their ancestors. Once he arrived in the village realizes that the community is populated by beastly shape-shifting beings able to transform into animals. Colum begins to feel an intense passion for a woman who can transform into a wolf and must make a choice: return to his family and bring her home or to give in to temptation.
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Roxanna (2002) Ted W. Crestview, Suzi Lorraine, Erin Brown, Josh Robinson, Drama, Sexploitation, Erotic

Roxanna (2002)
Roxanna (Misty Mundae) knows who she wants, what she craves, and how to get them, and nothing or no one is going to stop her. She spends her night and days experimenting with her sweet young body – satisfying a hot erotic appetite with an endless parade of female loves. But Roxanna’s obsession with exquisite pleasure of the flesh begins to take over her life, and soon lesbian desires surge beyond her control! Naughty fantasies become mouth watering reality, and Roxanna loses herself completely to this world of delectable sin. With the final realization that she has taken things too far, further than her mind and body can handle, Roxanna must come to terms with her insatiable libido or face the devastating consequences.
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Secret of the Incas (1954) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Adventure

Secret of the Incas (1954)
An Inca legend says the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled star burst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and the ancient civilization will spring anew when the treasure is returned. The natives want it but so does Harry Steele, an American adventurer of slightly-shady ways who wants it for personal gain, as does his adversary, a grizzled old man even more into skulduggery than Steele. The latter teams up with Elena Antonescu, an Iron Curtain refugee fleeing from the MKVD. She can help him get a plane and he can help her escape Peru for the relative safety of Mexico.
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