Diversion

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Detour

67mn - Crime, Drama

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

poster The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement

The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement

15mn - Comedy, Mystery

An amateur detective's automobile is stolen by a young woman who is determined to elope, leading to a complicated chase involving several vehicles.

poster Recreation

Recreation

Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the loca…

poster Civilization

Civilization

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commen…

poster A Submarine Pirate

A Submarine Pirate

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

poster Dangerous Charter

Dangerous Charter

76mn - Drama, Thriller

When struggling fishermen discover an abandoned luxury yacht with a corpse aboard, they think their salvage claim will solve their financial woes. But their dream windfall becomes a deadly nightmare as th…

poster Conspiracy

Conspiracy

Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the tru…

poster Trauma Therapy: Psychosis

Trauma Therapy: Psychosis

82mn - Horror, Thriller

Fleeing criminal charges in the US, charismatic self-help guru Tobin Vance secretly establishes a new base in remote Scotland. With his loyal assistant Elizabeth and devoted follower John, he lures troubl…

poster Twisted Minds

Twisted Minds

81mn - Drama, Horror

Local banker Bruno Adani's life is turned upside down when his stepbrother, Greg Tillney's darkened past catches up with him.

poster The Cape Town Affair

The Cape Town Affair

100mn - Action, Thriller

South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film, Pickup on South Street.

poster Vows of Deception

Vows of Deception

94mn - Short, Drama, Thriller

When a prominent lawyer is found murdered, his wife is promptly arrested and charged with the crime. She swiftly accuses her stepson, with whom she claims to be having an affair. This sheds enough reaso…

Rain

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sad…

poster Stealing a Nation

Stealing a Nation

56mn - Documentary

This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos i…

poster Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

1mn - Documentary

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.

poster Daring Daughters

Daring Daughters

Terry Cummings, a savvy and cynical city girl working at a hotel cigar counter, tries to protect her naive younger sister Betty from the predatory men and temptations of big-city life. When Betty arrives …

poster Liquid Bridge

Liquid Bridge

98mn - Drama, Action

Nick McCallum is mechanic who trades in his wrench for a surfboard, going against the wishes of his father– a former surfing legend who lost his ability to walk after a horrible accident on the water.

poster Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die

Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die

100mn - Western

A determined debt collector arrives in Tucson to collect his 10% commission after retrieving $100,000 for a corrupt bank president. When the banker refuses to pay and frames him for a crime, the collector…

Move On

2mn - Documentary

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The pictu…

poster The Shattering

The Shattering

76mn - Thriller

When a desperate boyfriend leads his cancer-stricken girlfriend and friends to meet a mysterious healer in the woods, they discover too late that they've been set up as bait for deadly creatures and param…

poster Escape 2120

Escape 2120

A detached orphan teen escapes to the future in suspended animation, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.

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