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poster Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

117mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby…

poster Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun

98mn - Action, Drama, War

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by …

poster Cry for Happy

Cry for Happy

110mn - Romance, Comedy

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

poster Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

102mn - Drama, Thriller

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and…

poster Between Love and Honor

Between Love and Honor

87mn - Drama, Romance

Steve Collura is an undercover cop out to infiltrate Carlo Gambino's mob. He soon falls in love with Gambino's daughter Maria and must make a choice between his duties as a police officer, his love for Ma…

poster A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

80mn - Drama, Romance, War

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous cha…

poster Gung Ho!

Gung Ho!

88mn - Action, Adventure, Drama

A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed…

poster For a Few Dollars Less

For a Few Dollars Less

A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.

C-Man

A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.

poster The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

115mn - Drama, Romance

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

poster The Naked Street

The Naked Street

84mn - Thriller, Drama

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of priso…

poster Three Bullets for Ringo

Three Bullets for Ringo

100mn - Western

Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, w…

poster The Tramp

The Tramp

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in h…

Charade

113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving ch…

poster Five for Hell

Five for Hell

Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run into a bru…

poster The Chase

The Chase

86mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

poster The Room

The Room

99mn - Drama, Romance

Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begi…

poster Svengali

Svengali

81mn - Drama, Horror, Romance

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

poster Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run

77mn - Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleano…

D.O.A.

83mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the h…

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