Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Night of the Hunter movie storyline. In West Virginia in the Great Depression, Reverend Harry Powell is a misogynistic serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River.
The Night of the Hunter (1955) Read More
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors.
The Tenant (1976) Read More
For Alfie, the only real life is sex life. Only then, can he kid himself he is living. Sex is not used as the working-class boy’s way to “the top”. Executive status has no appeal for Alfie.
Alfie (1966) Read More
The Poseidon Adventure movie storyline. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the SS Poseidon is struck by a 90-foot tidal wave and is capsized. Reverend Frank Scott leads nine survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Read More
A Double Life movie storyline. The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony “Tony” John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony has a breakdown, beginning to lose his mind and sense of reality, confusing his identity with his characters.
A Double Life (1947) Read More
He Ran All the Way movie storyline. Nick Robey is a two-bit hood, whose insecurity, superstitiousness and skitterishness make him an ineffective criminal. He lives with his slattern of a mother, who doesn’t care what happens to him, he in turn who feels the same about her.
He Ran All the Way (1951) Read More
A House Is Not a Home movie storyline. Polly Adler (Shelley Winters) 8is a poor Polish immigrant who works in a sweatshop. She loses her job after she is sexually assaulted by her boss, for which her housemates blames her. She then is forced to move out.
A House Is Not a Home (1964) Read More
That Lucky Touch movie storyline. The generals are gathering for the NATO War Games in Belgium, so are the journalists and the salesmen. One of the first films to satirise NATO and the European Union in Brussels begins when a cynical arms dealer discovers he lives next door to an attractive pacifist from the ‘Washington Post’, whose best friend happens to be married to an American General.
That Lucky Touch (1975) Read More
A Patch of Blue movie storyline. Accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother Rose-Ann at the age of five, Selina D’Arcey (Elizabeth Hartman) spends the next 13 years confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with “Ole Pa”, Selina’s grandfather.
A Patch of Blue (1965) Read More
The Chapman Report movie storyline. The sexual and romantic lives of four women residing in the upscale San Francisco suburb of Briarwood are presented against the backdrop of Dr. George Chapman and his associates coming to town to compile data through anonymous interviews for his sex survey and resulting report on sex and the American woman, especially as it relates to marriage.
The Chapman Report (1962) Read More