Thelma ritter

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poster Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on …

poster Messalina

Messalina

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The…

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 The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion

78mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

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…

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That Hamilton Woman

125mn - Drama, History, Romance

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Lady Gangster

62mn - Crime, Drama

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a b…

poster Tango Tangles

Tango Tangles

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

poster The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall

63mn - Mystery, Drama

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known a…

poster My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette

87mn - Comedy, Thriller, Mystery

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, B…

poster The Naked Witch

The Naked Witch

A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch (who happens to be both beautiful and naked) rises from her grave and embarks on a campaign o…

poster Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story

Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story

100mn - Crime, Drama, Short

Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a …

poster Baby Doll

Baby Doll

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby …

poster Goodbye Charlie

Goodbye Charlie

116mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi, Romance

When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend a…

poster The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris

116mn - Romance, Drama

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues h…

poster The Girl in Black Stockings

The Girl in Black Stockings

75mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified gues…

poster Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder

82mn - Drama, Western, Crime

Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.

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.

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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…

poster Teaserama

Teaserama

69mn - Documentary

A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.

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