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1) Pitfall
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job as an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has robbed a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair.
2) Gilda
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Johnny Farrell goes to work for the owner of an illegal South American gambling casino, he is given the assignment of keeping his boss's new wife faithful, complicated by the fact that she is Farrell's ex-lover.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Manny Balestrero, a musician unjustly accused of armed robbery. Balestrero vehemently protests his innocence but acts thoroughly guilty, leading a host of policemen and witnesses to finger him as the thief. The trial goes badly for Manny, but life is worse for his wife, Rose, who falls apart under the strain of his ordeal.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Charley Davis is a strong-willed young prizefighter whose ruthless quest for a shot at the title forces him to mortgage his humanity to a corrupt boxing syndicate. But when faced with the chance to regain his self-respect, Charley climbs into the ring one last time - in an unforgettable climatic fight scene.
7) Two step
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"James has lost his parents and been kicked out of college. With nowhere else to turn, he retreats to his beloved grandmother, only to watch her pass away. His luck continues its tailspin when he gets mixed up with Webb, a malicious con artist who's been preying on local seniors. James may have been taken under the wing of a benevolent, straight-shooting neighbor, but not even a garrison of guardian angels could ward off Webb, who has a deadly problem...
8) Road house
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A vindictive road house owner tries to break up the romance between his establishment's manager and singer.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Act of violence (1948): Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
Mystery street (1950): Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is...
10) Elena
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time...
12) The Hitch-Hiker
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), THE HITCH-HIKER is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, THE HITCH-HIKER is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He...
13) The stranger
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of a postwar manhunt for the former head of the Nazi torture camps, who is living the life of a model citizen in a small New England town and will resort to anything to avoid capture.
14) Kalifornia
Language
English
Description
Two urban intellectuals set out on a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers. They share the ride with a couple they hardly know and find out firsthand about their subject.
15) Dark city
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A stranger's suicide and a gambler's murder are both linked to an uncashed cashier's check won at a crooked card game.
16) Black widow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect while a series...
17) Shelter
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn in this suspense-laden,...
18) The Bigamist
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
An amazingly sympathetic portrait of a figure historically given very short shrift: the title character is not only a two-timer-he's a traveling salesman as well. But, as embodied by that perpetually pressured everyman of the 1950s, Edmond O'Brien, the bigamist comes across as a victim of his own sensitivity. Caught between two complementary spouses, O'Brien's dazed indecisiveness dominates the narrative. As always in Ida Lupino's directorial efforts,...
19) No Escape
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
An innocent couple, seeking to clear themselves of a homicide charge, discover that a jealous enraged detective is the murderer.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating story cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It's late at night in Times Square, and everything's buzzing with nervous energy. But press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is oblivious to it all as he nervously waits for the early edition of The Globe. Whose career did gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster)...
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