Oscar-winner Joan Crawford stars as a woman who uses and abandons men--clawing her way from poverty to wealth and social status--a woman who knows that The Damned Don't Cry! Crawford gives one of her best performances as Ethel Whitehead, an empowered woman who leaves her laborer husband and squalid factory town behind to find a new, better life. She uses a quiet accountant who adores her to meet a rich gangster, learns to carry herself as a socialite and leads a life of wealth and luxury as...
On a cold winter night, estranged siblings Sarah and Aaron Cotler arrive at an empty train station in Dombrova, Poland. With their only available ride being a silent Driver, they embark on a quest to fulfil their dying grandmother's wish -- find, dig up, and bring home the bones of her favourite childhood dog, Peter.
A naive, young dance instructor in 19th century Boston has set sail for California, via South America, when he's way-laid by swashbuckling pirates. When he tries to dance his way to freedom, he's mistaken by the locals for a buccaneer himself! Stage star Jonathan Pride absolutely dazzles with his dance routines, propelled by an equally-dazzling musical score from Rogers and Hart. Notably, this film was one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor productions. Previously available only in black...
The Danger Girl (1916, B&W): Madcap lesbian hijinks abound as Gloria dons men's clothes to seduce the beautiful Helen and keep her away from her own boyfriend. A teenage Gloria Swanson shows the beauty, the compelling smile, and the comic genius that would propel her to stardom in the 1920s. Stars Gloria Swanson and Bobbie Vernon; supervised by Mack Sennett; directed by Clarence Badger. Released by Triangle Film Corporation.A Hash House Fraud (1915, B&W): A swindle in a tiny downtown...
Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander star in this remarkable love story inspired by true events from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper. When Gerda (Vikander) asks her husband Einar Wegener (Redmayne) to fill in as a portrait model, Einar's long-repressed feelings surface and she begins living her life as a woman. Embarking on a groundbreaking journey that's only made possible by the unconditional love of her wife, Einar fights to become the person she's meant to be,...
A spoof of the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby "Road" movies, guest starring Claudine Auger, Bing Crosby, Hugh Downs, and Sheldon Leonard.
Racecar driver Bill Foster (Dick Purcell) has the talent to collect racing trophies, but his reckless stunts on the track get him banned from the racing association altogether. Hitting the road with his loyal sidekick, mechanic "Stub" Wilson (vaudeville veteran Charley Foy), Bill crashes into a bus owned by Neeley Transport. Bill is determined to sock Neeley's president in the nose because of the damage to his race car, only to discover that the president is the attractive Jerry Neeley...
A politician (a brilliant and well-liked mayor from his fellow citizens, candidate for the Chamber) clashes with a graduate, disappointed and against the current dancer in a LGBTQ Film.
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Warren William and Bette Davis get out the vote in this snappy political comedy costarring Guy Kibbee. "He's the dumbest human being I ever saw. Every time he opens his mouth he subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge." So states Hal S. Blake (William), campaign manager to dimwitted Zachary Hicks (Kibbee), the Progressive Party's candidate for governor. Aided by his secretary Kay (Davis) and promised a $50,000 bonus if Hicks wins, the unscrupulous Blake leaves no stone unturned as he...
Long estranged from his widowed mother, Keegan Dark (Blaise Embry) is blessed with the astonishing ability to remember his life in videographic detail. This is both a blessing and a curse, keeping him at odds with his family. Returning home with his boyfriend in tow to make amends with his mother, he's shocked to discover she has remarried. His family now includes a step-father and step-brother and Keegan quickly realizes they aren't up to any good. His investigation into their past is...
A look at the growing debate over whether parole boards are too quick to release dangerous criminals. Features the cases of a parolee who raped and killed a coed and an ex-inmate who was released "cold turkey" because of prison overcrowding and then murdered a woman.
What would it be like if you were one of the few Christians left at the End Times? The surviving members of a rural congregation hold fast to their Christian principles as the Lord of Darkness sends his minions to carry out his evil plan. Pastor Peter Braxton and his inspired inner circle embark on a harrowing quest to find his abducted son and other lost members of his embattled congregation.
The small, quiet town of St. Michael hasn't had a suspicious death in the last 30 years, until now. As strange murders disturb the peace, two detectives must solve a deadly game where the myth behind it unravels the town's urban legend and secrets too close to home. Detective Tamara Fischer is a logical, no nonsense woman, but she hasn't been sleeping since the murders started and there are no leads. Her new partner, Detective Lukas Wiles, used to vacation in St. Michael when he was a kid....
Following a family tragedy, Iris and her father move to the countryside in their old holiday home. Their mourning will quickly lead them to bitterness and violence between father and daughter.
John Wayne's character chases the man who killed his father, who is an outlaw.
John Wayne was still a few years from major stardom when he appeared as John Mason, a man seeking revenge for his father's murder. Marion Burns stars as Alice, Mason's love interest, while Reed Howes stars as Mason's friend and rival for Alice's affection. When Mason finally tracks down the man responsible for his father's death, will Ben help, or stand in his way? Produced by Lone Star Pictures, the group behind many of Wayne's early films, The Dawn Rider is a stirring yarn about the price of...
These vintage government films try to convince the average citizen that nuclear war is no big deal. After you get over that pesky radiation sickness, you'll be back to work in no time, at least until the next major nuclear exchange. THE DAY CALLED 'X' (1955): Glenn Ford hosts this chilling vision of what could happen on the day the bomb falls...The Day Called 'X'! For this Civil Defense documentary, 10,000 people in Portland, Oregon ("more or less the size of Hiroshima", according to Ford)...
In The Day It Came To Earth (1979) a glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims. In Tender Dracula (1974), two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles.
BACK ON DVD! Nathanael West's novel about Hollywood decadence in the late '30s is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A deeply insightful work that is powerful in its presentation, staggering in its vision. Director John Schlesinger is masterful in creating a world of platinum blondes, cockfights, glamour and broken dreams. And throughout, he plays on the edge of sexual and physical danger which finally erupts in the shocking climax. Oscar nominations went to Burgess Meredith and cinematographer...
The history-making launch of the first man into space takes an unexpected turn when Astronaut McLaren (Paul Hubschmid) is forced to eject from his ship, leaving the rocket on an uncontrolled journey into the cosmos. Soon there are mysterious occurrences on Earth, including a disturbing bright sphere surrounded by a halo in the sky. The renegade rocket has generated a cataclysmic chain reaction. A vast field of meteorites is hurtling on a collision course with Earth, causing tidal waves and...
Jesse James has set upon the plains, robbing trains and filling the newspapers with his exploits. His ability to escape justice forces the government to offer a $50,000 reward for his capture and every sheriff and bounty hunter in the west is on his trail. Roy Rogers, skeptical of James' exploits - robbing Minnesota one day and Missouri the next - begins his own investigation of the facts. When a massive bank robbery is blamed on Jesse James, Roy and Gabby set out to find the crook and join...
Dariko, the only local television journalist in a small town in Georgia, strives from one report to the next to provide a pseudo-ethnographical portrait of a community and its traditions. Like Virgil with Dante, she leads director Salome Jashi through the Georgian "circles of hell" in a microscopic tragi-comedy that reveals a country in perpetual transition.