Six stories, five directors, one night! The film unfolds during Nuit Blanche, a massive annual all night, city wide, art festival. It follows six different interweaving stories -- an artist questioning her place in the world; a fired lawyer who dons a superhero mask; two high school friends reuniting in a way that might finally become more; a lost traveller constrained by a language barrier; an altered observer who lives to capture life through his lens; and a dedicated volunteer, more focused...
The passionate worlds of dance and global politics collide in this explosive thriller from Academy Award nominated director Taylor Hackford (2004, Ray). In a role which hits close to home, ballet's Mikhail Baryshnikov plays Nikolai Rodchenko, a legendary Soviet dancer who has defected to the West - until a cruel twist of fate suddenly traps him back in Mother Russia. Tap dancer Gregory Hines co-stars as Raymond Greenwood, a cynical U.S. Army deserter ordered by the KGB to make Nikolai's...
Scoundrel Mark Granger tries to force himself on innocent young Rose Miller after cornering her on a riverboat. The horrified girl hurls herself overboard to save her honor. Although she is rescued from drowning, she emerges from the Mississippi deathly ill. Her brother Oak rushes to Rose's side but the girl is slowly dying. He engages a nurse to care for her and they join a wagon train to seek their fortunes in the West. But Oak Miller is a force to be reckoned with and vows that the man that...
An archaeologist working in Southern Mexico believes that there are remnants of the ancient Toltec civilization in a remote area. He requests a photographer, and is frustrated when he is sent a young woman to do the job. A romantic love triangle ensues on their adventure through the ruins
Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.
The Missing Link Found! London explorer Sir Harry Bragdon (Gordon Richards) and his beautiful daughter, Pamela (Maris Wrixon), arrive in west Africa seeking the mysterious albino gorilla that may be the bridge to human evolution. They organize a safari and embark for the dark depths of the untamed Congo. During the trip, Pamela becomes infatuated with Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser), a dashing hired rifleman who harbors a secret identity. Their quest takes them through savage jungle where...
Harlon Mackey (Krause) has been haunted by visions since his alcoholic father forced him to kill a rabbit while hunting. Now that Harlon is a bullied high school teen, his undiagnosed mental illness is getting worse. He starts to hear voices and his imagination spurs him to carry out violent acts. But things begin to look up when Julie (Robertson), a rebellious young girl, moves to town and befriends Harlon. When she betrays him, however, the rabbit and his other visions taunt him into...
Even today, the Marquesas Islands beckon travelers yearning for an exotic and authentic Polynesian experience. Imagine the wonder of 1928 audiences when White Shadows in the South Seas took them thousands of miles from home to that remote Eden of rolling waves and palm-fringed beaches. The first of W.S. Van Dyke's famed filmed-on-location adventures (the others: The Pagan and Trader Horn) tells a dramatic tale of foreign interlopers -- a booze-sodden doctor and a rapacious pearl trader -- who...
Academy Award winner Sophia Loren (1961, Best Actress, Two Women) stars as a young woman who loses her lover in an oil field accident in Libya. Brokenhearted, she becomes a nun, known as Sister Germana. Returning to Italy, she becomes an administrator of an unconventional hospital where a Marxist patient, Annibale (Adriano Celentano, La Dolce Vita), seems to have the run of the place; counseling doctors, administering cures and romancing nurses. What follows is an unusual relationship between...
When three campers witness an alien mothership descending on their town and turning the population into "Altered" human beings, they team up with a reclusive stranger who offers to guide them to safety. As they're chased deep into the forest and one of them becomes infected, they realize there's nowhere to hide from the Altered horde that seems intent upon finding and assimilating them.
A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.
A diabolical woman runs a seedy brothel for missing girls.
Eetay-O-Wahnee (May Wynn, The Caine Mutiny) is a white squaw raised by a Native American tribe. Not knowing her true father, the secret is revealed when he wills her half of his land on his deathbed. A ruthless landowner (David Brian, Intruder in the Dust), however, will do anything to keep Eetay-O-Wahnee and her tribe from getting even an acre of the land. Newly remastered.
One late summer night, 21-year-old Bella, witnesses the horrific death of both her parents during a home invasion. To help recover from her trauma and get on with life, Bella and her brother, Mason, move in with their aunt and uncle. Although Bella very much wants to move on, it's as if life won't let her. Days leading up to her parents' death start to repeat themselves. The same conversations, the same people, the same situations. No matter what she does, she cannot keep the past from playing...
Tod Browning, the renowned director best known for the classic motion pictures Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932), created the atmospheric and disturbing White Tiger in 1923, a Carl Laemmle Universal Jewel production. Two years later he would achieve international acclaim directing Lon Chaney in The Unholy Three, the first in a series of offbeat but highly regarded films which would include The Unknown (1927), London After Midnight (1927) and West of Zanzibar (1928).Count Donelli, assisted by...
Steve Reeves is Hadji Murad, the legendary 19th century Avar/Chechen warrior chieftain who battles his peoples' Tsarist oppressors in this sweeping spectacle loaded with swashbuckling violence, forbidden desire and betrayal.Filmed in Technicolor by acclaimed genre director Mario Bava and brimming with first-rate action sequences, this tale is a frank and even-handed depiction of the effects of the atrocities of war on the peasant class.The source for The White Warrior was Leo Tolstoy's novel...
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
Professional game hunter Lonni Douglas is hired by a nurse, Ellen Burton, to take her into the heart of Africa to hopefully find a man that was her mentor.
In the harsh northern reaches of Canada's Ellesmere Island, elusive arctic wolves share their secrets with two patient observers. Shielded by their remote location and inhospitable climate, these wild animals have not yet learned to fear humans. This is the most intimate film about wolf behavior ever made.
Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton star in the gripping Pre-Code drama about forbidden love, White Woman. The life of a glamorous nightclub performer (Lombard) changes drastically when she agrees to marry a wealthy plantation owner (Laughton). As the two begin their domestic life together on his remote Malaysian estate, she realizes the extent of his cruel and jealous nature. She soon finds herself drawn to another man but must keep their love secret to avoid the wrath of her husband.
..."For you, my friend, they are the angels of death." Thus replies Murder Legendre (Bela Lugosi) to John Harron when he inquires about the zombies he encounters on the island of Haiti, the locale of this horror classic. When Harron arrives on the isle with his lovely fiancee, Madeline (Madge Bellamy), a wealthy fellow traveler, Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer), offers his lush plantation home for their nuptials. Unfortunately, Beaumont has become smitten with Madeline and enters into an...
A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
Watch Bela Lugosi use his special zombie grip to make beautiful women submit to his every desire! In this low budget screamer, a couple honeymooning in Haiti run afoul of a diabolical voodoo master. They're soon wishing they'd gone to Cancun! This Pre- Code horror classic is considered to be the first feature length zombie movie, and features great atmospheric direction by Victor Halperin. The film's unsung hero was set designer Ralph Berger, who exploited sets of previous Universal Studios...