The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke…
The Shop at Sly Corner
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil’s Island, since when he has allowed…
Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in…
Comrade X
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Rage in Heaven
Robert Montgomery plays a jealous man who plots to fake his death and incriminate his wife’s suspected lover.
Seven Sinners
Beautiful chanteuse ‘Bijou’ (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia’s ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant’s lap. As Bijou ‘drifts through the standards’, the fleet’s Admiral reckons the US…
Mr. Sardonicus
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father’s grave causes Sardonicus’ face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction–with…
The Key
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into “U-Boat Alley” to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He’s…
Boys’ Night Out
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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I Remember Mama
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads Charles Dickens to the family…
The White Tower
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
The Executioner
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
The Invisible Woman
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge…
Funeral in Berlin
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his…
Song of Norway
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars…
The Tamarind Seed
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
Billion Dollar Brain
The Long Ships
With this elaborately mounted seafaring experience, Rolfe is a Viking chief with all the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe informs others of “The Mother of Voices,” a…
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama movie directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based mostly partly on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was…