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The Men
Genres: Drama
Starring: Marlon Brando, Ray Teal, Richard Erdman, Everett Sloane, Teresa Wright, Cliff Clark, Howard St. John
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Country: USA
Year: 1950
Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. In the hospital back home, he passes through an initial period of depression with the help of a sympathetic Dr. Brock and his faithful fianc
Three Faces West
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Starring: John Wayne, Charles Coburn, Wade Boteler, Trevor Bardette, Spencer Charters, Wendell Niles, Sigrid Gurie
Directors: Bernard Vorhaus
Country: USA
Year: 1940
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must make a decision between the two men.
Little Caesar
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: George E. Stone, Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Stanley Fields, Maurice Black, Thomas E. Jackson
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Country: USA
Year: 1931
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to the great mobster Pete Montana. In a robbery of a night-club, he kills the Crime Commissioner Alvin McClure and his pal Joe witnesses the murder. When Rico orders Joe to leave his mistress Olga Strassoff, she takes a serious decision.
Rhubarb
Genres: Comedy, Family, Sport
Starring: Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart
Directors: Arthur Lubin
Country: USA
Year: 1951
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
King of the Pecos
Genres: Western
Starring: John Wayne, John Beck, Edward Hearn, Cy Kendall, Arthur Aylesworth, Herbert Heywood, Yakima Canutt
Directors: Joseph Kane
Country: USA
Year: 1936
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own, and refuses Stiles' $1000 offer for his land. Led by the murderous Ash, the hired guns of Stiles kill Clayborn and his wife but their young son John survives and joins his grandfather in Austin. As the boy grows into a man he learns the use of a law book as well as a six gun, intending to use both to bring Stiles to justice. As lawyer John Clay, he travels to the Cottonwood headquarters of Stiles, self-proclaimed King of the Pecos...
Cloak and Dagger
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Vladimir Sokoloff, Marc Lawrence, Gary Cooper, James Flavin, Patrick O'Moore, Dan Seymour, Ludwig Stössel
Directors: Fritz Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1946
Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. In Midwestern University, the scientist Alvah Jesper is called up by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to meet his former colleague Dr. Katerin Lodor in Switzerland and bring her to North America. However, his mission fails and Dr. Lodor is killed by the Nazis but first she informs that Alvah's acquaintance Dr. Giovanni Polda is working for the Nazis in Italy. Dr. Jesper travels to Italy and with the support of the Italian partisans leaded by Pinkie and Gina, he has a meeti...
The Atomic Kid
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Starring: Whit Bissell, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry, Stanley Adams, Hal March, Dan Riss
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
Country: USA
Year: 1954
A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring.
The Uninvited (1944)
Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Ray Milland, Alan Napier, Donald Crisp, Ruth Hussey, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Directors: Lewis Allen
Country: USA
Year: 1944
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted. The reasons for the haunting and how they relate to the daughter whom the brother is falling in love with, prove to be a complex mystery. As they are compelled to solve it, the supernatural activity at the house increases to a frightening level.
Kansas City Confidential
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Neville Brand, Don Orlando, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Howard Negley, Carleton Young
Directors: Phil Karlson
Country: USA
Year: 1952
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.
Hell's Half Acre
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure
Starring: Jesse White, Keye Luke, Elsa Lanchester, Nancy Gates, Wendell Corey, Marie Windsor, Evelyn Keyes
Directors: John H. Auer
Country: USA
Year: 1954
A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she sees him, when he hears that his current girlfriend has been murdered. The wife searches the slum area of Honolulu known as Hell's Half Acre for him, he searches for his girlfriend's killer, and his gangland associates are looking for the two of them.
Champion
Genres: Romance, Drama, Sport
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Mark Robson
Country: USA
Year: 1949
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public...and a heel in private.
To Each His Own
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Frank Faylen, Olivia de Havilland, Doris Lloyd, Willard Robertson, Victoria Horne, Roland Culver, Arthur Loft
Directors: Mitchell Leisen
Country: USA
Year: 1946
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
The Devil and Miss Jones
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Robert Cummings, Edwin Maxwell, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest, Jean Arthur
Directors: Sam Wood
Country: USA
Year: 1941
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. In order to find out who the organizers are, he gets a job at the store as a shoe salesman. Not realizing his true identity, he's befriended by Mary Jones and Joe O'Brien, the two ringleaders, and Elizabeth Ellis, a charming older woman with whom he develops a romance.
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Genres: Adventure, Family, Romance
Starring: Noble Johnson, Charles Belcher, Douglas Fairbanks, Brandon Hurst, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston, Sôjin
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Country: USA
Year: 1924
A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad's daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules...
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Darryl Hickman, James Flavin, Judith Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
Directors: Lewis Milestone
Country: USA
Year: 1946
In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil, now district attorney. At first, Sam is more interested in displaced blonde Toni Marachek than in his boyhood friends; but they draw him into a convoluted web of plotting and cross-purposes.
The Wages Of Fear
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Charles Vanel, Grégoire Gromoff, Yves Montand, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck, Véra Clouzot, William Tubbs
Directors: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1953
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivallry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Sid James, Michael Trubshawe, Jack MacGowran, Reginald Beckwith, Ewan Roberts, Hugh Griffith, Stanley Holloway
Directors: Charles Crichton
Country: UK
Year: 1953
Available Quality: Hi Def
The residents of a small English village are about to lose their ancient railroad. They decide to rescue it by running it themselves, in competition with the local bus company.
The Wonder Ring
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Directors: Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell
Country: USA
Year: 1955
American avant garde experimental film maker, concerned more with technique than subject matter. He filmed many short subjects on 8mm or 16mm film. He often used blurred or out-of-focus shots, superimposed or distorted images, intentionally designed to emphasize subjectivity of vision
The Trap
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Earl Holliman, Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Peter Baldwin, Carl Benton Reid, Richard Shannon
Directors: Norman Panama
Country: USA
Year: 1959
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
White Zombie
Genres: Romance, Horror
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Brandon Hurst, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, John Harron, George Burr Macannan
Directors: Victor Halperin
Country: USA
Year: 1932
Available Quality: Hi Def
Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is ...