Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Rope movie storyline. Manhattan socialites Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan choke the life out of an associate, David, as an intellectual challenge to commit the perfect murder. Not content to escape the penalty of law by simply disposing of the body quietly, they furthermore devise an elaborate and dangerous display of arrogance.
Rope (1948) Read More
Spellbound movie storyline. The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen.
Spellbound (1945) Read More
The Lady Vanishes movie storyline. Passengers on a scheduled train out of the mountainous European country of Mandrika are delayed by a day due to an avalanche, and thus get up close and personal with each other out of necessity in the only and what becomes an overcrowded inn in the area.
The Lady Vanishes (1938) Read More
Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland’s, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him.
Marnie (1964) Read More
Family Plot movie storyline. The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird who believes she is a spiritualist. After a séance, she discovers that Julia is tormented by her past, when she forced her sister and single mother Harriet to deliver her baby for adoption to avoid a family scandal.
Family Plot (1976) Read More
Dial M for Murder movie storyline. Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour.
Dial M for Murder (1954) Read More
Torn Curtain movie storyline. Professor Michael Armstrong is heading to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend a physics conference accompanied by his assistant and fiancée Sarah Sherman.
Torn Curtain (1966) Read More
Frenzy movie storyline. In London, a serial killer is raping women and then strangling them with a necktie. When the reckless and low-class with a bad temper bartender Richard Blaney is fired from the pub Global Public House by the manager Felix Forsythe, he decides to visit his ex-wife Brenda, who owns a successful marriage agency.
Frenzy (1972) Read More
Topaz movie storyline. Russian official, Boris Kusenov, his wife and daughter defect to America. Hoped to be a boon for battling the Cold War, Americans soon find out that they have more to deal.
Topaz (1969) Read More
Psycho movie storyline. Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married.
Psycho (1960) Read More