Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel ‘Mike’ Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He’s killed on the US side of the border but it’s clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate.
Touch of Evil (1958) Read More
A Streetcar Named Desire movie storyline. Blanche DuBois, a high school English teacher decides to move to live with her sister and brother-in-law,
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Read More
A Star is Born is the 1954 musical, acclaimed by many as greatest Hollywood musical ever made. Judy Garland’s intense performance as the main character, probably the finest of her entire career.
A Star Is Born (1954) Read More
The Third Man is a visually-stylish thriller – a paranoid story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a depressed, rotting 20th century Vienna following World War II.
The Third Man (1950) Read More
Some Like It Hot movie storyline. When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They’re desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players.
Some Like It Hot (1959) Read More
Singin’ in the Rain is one of the most-loved and celebrated film musicals of all time from MGM, before a mass exodus to filmed adaptations of Broadway plays emerged as a standard pattern.
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Read More
Shane movie storyline. Enigmatic gunslinger Shane rides into a small Wyoming town with hopes of quietly settling down as a farmhand.
Shane (1953) Read More
The Searchers storyline. Ethan Edwards, returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother, hopes to find a home with his family and to be near the woman he obviously but secretly loves.
The Searchers (1956) Read More
Roman Holiday storyline. Joe Bradley is a reporter for American News Service in Rome, a job he doesn’t much like as he would rather work for what he considers a real news agency.
Roman Holiday (1953) Read More
After breaking his leg during a dangerous assignment, professional photographer L. B. “Jeff” Jeffries (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment, whose rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. The tenants he can see include a dancer, a lonely woman, a songwriter, several married couples, and Lars Thorwald (Burr), a salesman with a bedridden wife.
Rear Window (1954) Read More