L'abolition

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poster Song of Surrender

Song of Surrender

93mn - Romance, Drama, Music

In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this…

poster City Without Men

City Without Men

75mn - Crime, Drama

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose resid…

poster Children of Eve

Children of Eve

73mn - Drama, Crime

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-…

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 Sentence of God

Sentence of God

Two ruthless gunmen with opposing motivations—a cold-blooded bounty hunter pursuing the reward and a vengeful outlaw seeking justice for his father's murder—reluctantly join forces to track down the notor…

poster Chained for Life

Chained for Life

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

poster The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man

100mn - Drama, Short

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the vic…

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 The Execution

The Execution

2mn - Crime, Drama

A child murderess is led to her execution.

poster Princess Tam Tam

Princess Tam Tam

77mn - Drama, Comedy

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.

poster The Black Swan

The Black Swan

87mn - Action, Adventure

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous …

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 Port of New York

Port of New York

Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.

poster The Little American

The Little American

63mn - Drama, War, Romance

Angela Moore survives a German U-boat attack only to find herself trapped in occupied France, where she must choose between love and patriotism during World War I.

poster Wiretapper

Wiretapper

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

poster Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah

132mn - Adventure, Drama, History

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prev…

poster Male and Female

Male and Female

116mn - Adventure, Drama

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

poster Girl on a Chain Gang

Girl on a Chain Gang

Three young travelers driving through the Deep South encounter corrupt police who frame them on false charges, subjecting them to a brutal ordeal of racial hatred and systematic abuse that exposes the dar…

poster A Burlesque on Carmen

A Burlesque on Carmen

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

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