Locked Down (2021)
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world’s most exclusive department…
Young Adam (2003)
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers’ lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he…
Words and Pictures (2013)
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Woman Times Seven (1967)
Seven mini-stories of adultery: “Funeral Possession,” a wayward widow at her husband’s funeral; “Amateur Night,” angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; “Two Against One,” seemingly prudish girl turns out…
Waves (2019)
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under…
Vanity Fair (2004)
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright…
Tomcats (2001)
College buddies chip in and promise that the group’s last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 — money Michael needs to…
The War Between Men and Women (1972)
A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward…
The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922)
In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel “The Three Musketeers”.
The Romance of Seville (1929)
Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon’s betrothal,…
The Ring (1927)
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she’s framed for rustling.
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a…
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
The Lost Moment (1947)
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis…
The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen Verona, The Lords of Flatbush is a low budget film starring Perry King, Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone (who also wrote additional dialog). Set…
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for…
The Knot (2012)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym (“Ernest”) on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which…
The Good Fairy (1935)
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining…
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying…
The Duke Wore Jeans (1958)
A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess
The Docks of New York (1928)
A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
The Deadly Affair (1967)
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan’s wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination…
The Card (1952)
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can…
Ten North Frederick (1958)
A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter’s roommate.
Syncopation (1942)
Stage Beauty (2004)
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor’s success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century,…
Semi-Tough (1977)
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner’s daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Royal Flash (1975)
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman’s (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own…
Road House (1948)
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Pulsion (2014)
Follows a young woman, Eva, seeking professional help for a sexual addiction that threatens to overwhelm her. The therapist recommends a retreat to a lush countryside manse with a mixed-gender…
Paris Holiday (1958)
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
On Secret Service (1933)
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl…
Move Over, Darling (1963)
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the…
Love Circles (1985)
French erotic auteur Gerard Kikoine makes the world his canvas in this sexy roundelay of intimate encounters across the globe. Following a pack of cigarettes that ends up with partner…
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2015)
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Konga (1961)
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back…
King Creole (1958)
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is…