Drunken Angel
The chaotic worlds of the Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after an unfortunate incident…
Robin Hood-Winked
Popeye is Robin Hood; he’s got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to…
Pre-Hysterical Man
Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up…
Popeye The Sailor: Wigwam Whoopee
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.
Snow Place Like Home
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre’s Trading Post;…
Olive Oyl for President
Symphony in Spinach
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Popeye’s nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.
Popeye Meets Hercules
The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of…
A Wolf in Sheik’s Clothing
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she’d like to kiss…
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress (Linden Travers) who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio…
Force of Evil
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants…
The Noose Hangs High
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two…
Hollow Triumph
A film noir drama in which a sophisticated con man, who has just stolen from the mob, is forced to impersonate a psychiatrist who looks just like him, going so…
Wake of the Red Witch
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
The Miracle of the Bells
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for…
Louisiana Story
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
The Greed of William Hart
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their…
The Man from Colorado
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war,…
The Amazing Mr. X
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf…then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who…
Esther Waters
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer’s daughter. Left alone to bring up…
Fighting Back
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Bodyguard
A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.
Incident
An innocent man — due to a case of mistaken identity — is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target — a gangster– and warn…
In the Street
Images of street life in New York’s Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.
Another Shore
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
Homecoming
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it’s “the thing to do” rather than deep-seated patriotism. On…
Tap Roots
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The…
The Shanghai Chest
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man’s finger prints show up at all three murder sites.
Ruthless
Wealthy, powerful Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to…
B.F.’s Daughter
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
Against the Wind
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who…
The Cumberland Story
A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.
On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day’s roving…
Silver River
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most…
A Song Is Born
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson….
The Voice of the Turtle
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
All My Sons
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years.