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poster Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker

75mn - Comedy, Romance

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly a…

poster Borrowed Wives

Borrowed Wives

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

poster The St. Francisville Experiment

The St. Francisville Experiment

79mn - Horror, Thriller

Four non-actors, with no script, lock themselves in a haunted Louisiana plantation home overnight to film what takes places. The Lalaurie plantation, site of grisly murders, comes alive before their camer…

poster La Parisienne

La Parisienne

The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.

poster Charade

Charade

113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…

poster Lady Gangster

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 Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

poster Is Spiritualism a Fraud?: The Medium Exposed

Is Spiritualism a Fraud?: The Medium Exposed

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

poster Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle

72mn - Comedy, Romance, Music

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placati…

poster Money Mad

Money Mad

9mn - Crime, Drama

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple…

poster Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse

Nonemn - Drama, Comedy

When Sheila and her brother plot to kill her husband with a staged gas leak to collect the insurance money, they believe their scheme is foolproof - especially since the only witness is her husband's para…

poster Are Crooks Dishonest?

Are Crooks Dishonest?

Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.

poster Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs

Two traveling musicians unwittingly become part of a gasoline pill scam during wartime rationing, then team up with a charming con man to help a young singer recover her family's stolen fortune through an…

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 Get That Man

Get That Man

58mn - Action, Crime, Comedy

A down-on-his-luck taxi driver discovers he's the spitting image of a murdered millionaire heir and gets blackmailed into claiming the fortune by a corrupt lawyer. When his murderous wife and her lover ar…

poster Dementia 13

Dementia 13

75mn - Horror, Thriller

A widow deceives her late husband's mother and brothers into thinking he's still alive when she attends the yearly memorial to his drowned sister, hoping to secure his inheritance, but her cunning is no m…

poster Forlorn River

Forlorn River

56mn - Action, Western

Nevada, a wandering cowboy, hijacks stolen bank loot from a gang of outlaws, only to find himself entangled in a scheme involving government horse buyers, corrupt officials, and a beautiful ranch owner's …

poster The Oil Raider

The Oil Raider

59mn - Romance, Action, Adventure

A determined wildcatter races against time to strike oil and repay a $50,000 loan, unaware that his own financier has hired saboteurs to destroy his rig and steal his claim. When romance blooms with the b…

poster Knock Off

Knock Off

91mn - Action, Adventure, Thriller

A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.

poster The Deal

The Deal

A washed-up Hollywood producer on the brink of suicide gets one last shot at redemption when his nephew brings him a script about Benjamin Disraeli, but desperation drives him to transform the historical …

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