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1960s Movies

Portrait in Black (1960)

October 16, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

Portrait in Black movie storyline. In San Francisco, shipping magnate Matthew Cabot, though fatally ill, watches over his fleet and remains controlling and cruel to his wife Sheila and second-in-command, Howard Mason. As he does each day, Dr. David Rivera, who is secretly having an affair with Sheila, arrives to administer Matt’s injection of ether to control the pain, a procedure Howard considers suspicious.

1970s Movies

Chato’s Land (1972)

August 8, 2020January 19, 2023 - by greatmovies

Chato’s Land movie storyline. After a deadly confrontation with the racist local sheriff in the town’s whites-only bar, the half-Apache, Pardon Chato, flees into the unforgiving desert. Hell-bent on making Chato pay, the famed former Confederate officer, Captain Quincey Whitmore, assembles an angry posse of blood-thirsty men.

1980s Movies

Being There (1980)

August 7, 2020January 19, 2023 - by greatmovies

Being There movie storyline. Chance is mentally challenged, those that know him who would probably call him simple. He doesn’t know how to read or write.

1970s Movies

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

June 15, 2020February 21, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Island of Dr. Moreau movie synopsis. Shipwrecked Andrew Braddock washes ashore on a remote, tropical island in the Pacific. There he is attended to by the seemingly kindly Dr. Moreau and his dour assistant Montgomery.