Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone Read More »
Film-Noir
The Killing (1956) Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
After just being released from a five year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five man team Read More »
The Woman on the Beach (1947) Jean Renoir, Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
Scott, a troubled Coast Guardsman assigned to a fog-bound station on a remote stretch of beach Read More »
The Strange One (1957) Jack Garfein, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman
Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school’s executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Read More »
The Big Combo (1955) Joseph H. Lewis, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde
Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown Read More »
His Kind of Woman (1951) John Farrow, Richard Fleischer, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. Read More »
Paid (1930) Sam Wood, Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn’t commit. Read More »
Wicked Woman (1953) Russell Rouse, Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton
A blonde floozy drifts into town and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Read More »
The Girl in the Kremlin (1957) Russell Birdwell, Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. Read More »
I Was a Shoplifter (1950) Charles Lamont, Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King
Police detective sergeant Jeff Andrews is working on a case involving a gang of shoplifters Read More »
The Reckless Moment (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »
Crack-Up (1946) Irving Reis, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night Read More »
On Dangerous Ground (1951) Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects Read More »
Underworld (1927) Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
‘Nobody helps me — I help them!’ boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed Read More »
5 Fingers (1952) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie
Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador Read More »