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  • James Tinling – Strange Journey (1946)

    1941-1950AdventureCrimeJames TinlingUSA

    Story
    Reformed racketeer “Lucky” Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn’t commit.Read More »

  • Raoul Walsh – High Sierra (1941)

    1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsDramaFilm NoirRaoul WalshUSA

    Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery.Read More »

  • Abel Ferrara – Tommaso (2019) (HD)

    Drama2011-2020Abel FerraraUSA

    Playing opposite the director’s own wife and daughter, Willem Dafoe is a Ferrara-like American artist living in Rome in this improvised drama of doubt and disconnection, shot in self-reflective documentary style.Read More »

  • Woody Allen – September (1987)

    1981-1990DramaUSAWoody Allen

    At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who’s in a relationship with Peter, who’s falling for Stephanie, who’s married with children.Read More »

  • Kurt Neumann – The Fly (1958)

    1951-1960HorrorKurt NeumannSci-FiUSA

    Quote:
    After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was experimenting with teleportation – transporting objects from one point to another by breaking the object down to the atomic level and then reassembling it in a receiver a distance away. The system had some glitches – it seemed to work with inanimate object but his cat disappeared when he tried teleporting it. He thinks he’s solved all of the problems with his invention and decides to try and teleport himself. When a fly enters the teleportation device with him, disaster strikes.Read More »

  • Julien Temple – Absolute Beginners (1986)

    1981-1990Julien TempleMusicalRock n' Roll MusicalsUSA

    Quote:
    A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin’s Notting Hill housing estate…Read More »

  • René Clair – It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

    1941-1950ComedyFantasyRené ClairUSA

    Quote:
    A newspaper obit writer, impatient to move ahead at his job, wishes he could know the news before it happens. One night, Old Pop Benson grants him that power, in the form of the next day’s newspaper. At first it only gets him in trouble, but also brings him closer to the pretty girl in a fortune-telling routine. By the third tomorrow’s paper, he’s sure he’s got this whole future business in the bag — reporting advance scoops, picking sure winners at the race track — when he reads a very final headline: the news of his own death.Read More »

  • William C. Faure – Shaka Zulu (1986)

    1981-1990DramaUSAWarWilliam C. Faure

    Framed around Queen Victoria’s decision on England’s political stance towards the Zulu Nation, this mini-series details King Shaka’s rise and fall with mythic detail. Prophecy is mixed with recorded fact regarding Shaka’s birth, exile, innovations in warfare, assumption of the throne, building of the Zulu Empire, first contact with Europe and the events that lead to his downfallRead More »

  • Various – O. Henry’s Full House (1952)

    Drama1951-1960ComedyMarilyn MonroeUSAVarious

    Synopsis:
    John Steinbeck introduces five of O. Henry’s most popular short stores in this anthology film. In “The Cop and the Anthem” a homeless alcoholic is increasingly frustrated in numerous attempts to get arrested and jailed for 90 days in a warm cell rather than face the rigors of a New York winter. In “The Clarion Call” a NYPD detective has a crisis of conscience when he is torn between his duty to arrest a childhood friend for a murder only he knows he committed and the debt of honor he still owes to him. In “The Last Leaf” a naive young girl is stricken with pneumonia after being seduced and jilted by venal actor. Read More »

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