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poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster Notorious

Notorious

102mn - Thriller, Drama, Romance

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one anoth…

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 10 Days in a Madhouse

10 Days in a Madhouse

Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.

poster The Steel Claw

The Steel Claw

96mn - Drama, War

A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called back into service to rescue a general held by Fil…

poster My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

94mn - Comedy, Romance

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a serv…

poster Cheers for Miss Bishop

Cheers for Miss Bishop

95mn - Comedy, Drama

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of mi…

poster Unconquered

Unconquered

146mn - Adventure, Drama, History

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin t…

poster Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic

82mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harle…

poster Mae West

Mae West

95mn - Drama, Short

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

poster Can You Feel Me Dancing?

Can You Feel Me Dancing?

100mn - Short, Drama

Based on a true story. Karin is a young blind girl who's been encouraged by her overprotective parents to encounter life boldly. Karin meets a handsome young man named Richie, who falls in love with her.…

poster Dallas Doll

Dallas Doll

Dallas, an American golf tutor, arrives in a quiet Sydney suburb to teach at the local school and sets about causing chaos with the family she stays with.

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.

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…

Perfect Profile

Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…

AWOL

A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.

poster Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth

95mn - Drama, Short

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younge…

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 Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

91mn - Drama, Short

Donna Yaklich meets Dennis the policeman and thinks she might have found a good relationship. But Dennis is obsessed with weight-lifting and uses steroids, which make him aggressive and abusive. Getting o…

Mohawk

79mn - Action, Western

An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the arm…

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