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  • Black Snake Moan picture
    Movies

    Black Snake Moan (2007)

    A troubled bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) seeks to redeem a young woman (Christina Ricci) whose...

  • Chattahoochee picture
    Movies

    Chattahoochee (1990)

    A disturbed Korean War hero (Gary Oldman) is placed in a barbaric Florida hospital for the...

  • Birdman of Alcatraz picture
    Movies

    Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

    Murderer Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) spends decades in solitary confinement studying birds and...

  • Belle of the Yukon picture
    Movies

    Belle of the Yukon

    Left by a con man (Randolph Scott), a dancer (Gypsy Rose Lee) finds him in gold-rush Alaska running...

  • The Dalton Girls picture
    Movies

    The Dalton Girls

    Holly (Merry Anders), Rose (Lisa Davis), Columbine (Penny Edwards) and Marigold become outlaws after...

  • Blazing Barriers picture
    Movies

    Blazing Barriers

    Two wayward youths (Frank Coghlan Jr., Edward Arnold Jr.) are morally improved by stints in the...

  • No Limit picture
    Movies

    No Limit

    In this fluffy comedy, an innocent usherette falls for a customer whom she finally meets and...

  • Metropolis picture
    Movies

    Metropolis (1927)

    An industrialist (Alfred Abel) rules a 21st-century city where the rich play above and slaves toil...

  • The Desert Flower picture
    Movies

    The Desert Flower

    Proving once and for all that Western filmmaking was treacherous work even for the greatest of...

  • Buy and Cell picture
    Movies

    Buy and Cell (1989)

    An imprisoned stockbroker makes a fortune for himself and his fellow inmates while behind bars.

  • Magnificent Obsession picture
    Movies

    Magnificent Obsession (1954)

    A reckless playboy (Rock Hudson) turns surgeon to help a woman (Jane Wyman) whose blindness and...

  • The Big Caper picture
    Movies

    The Big Caper (1957)

    Obviously inspired by such films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing, The Big Caper takes place in...

  • The Shock picture
    Movies

    The Shock

    A crippled criminal (Lon Chaney) falls in love with the daughter (Virginia Valli) of the banker he...

  • Ladies of the Mob picture
    Movies

    Ladies of the Mob

    The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow...

  • A Monkey In Winter picture
    Movies

    A Monkey In Winter (1961)

    A middle-aged alcoholic with a wife and child swears off drinking if they survive the famous...

  • Fragment of Fear picture
    Movies

    Fragment of Fear (1971)

    Reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

  • Gangster Story picture
    Movies

    Gangster Story (1960)

    An upstart gangster (Walter Matthau) moves in on another's (Bruce McFarlan) territory.

  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon picture
    Movies

    Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

    The life of Francis of Assisi.

  • B. Monkey picture
    Movies

    B. Monkey (1999)

    A woman (Asia Argento) tries to settle a debt with her roommate (Rupert Everett) and a local mobster...

  • Unchained picture
    Movies

    Unchained (1955)

    A convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish out his sentence and get...

  • Two Eyes, Twelve Hands picture
    Movies

    Two Eyes, Twelve Hands

    Progressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to...

  • Voices of Iraq picture
    Movies

    Voices of Iraq (2004)

    A compilation of footage taken from 2,000 Iraqis who were given digital video cameras and allowed to...

  • The Lonely Man picture
    Movies

    The Lonely Man (1957)

    Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have...

  • Saddle the Wind picture
    Movies

    Saddle the Wind (1958)

    A retired gunfighter's (Robert Taylor) younger brother (John Cassavetes) brings home a saloon singer...

  • Clay Pigeon picture
    Movies

    Clay Pigeon

    This crime drama from the 1970s examines the experiences of a Vietnam vet who gets involved with...

  • The Lawless Breed picture
    Movies

    The Lawless Breed (1952)

    After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography...

  • Come Next Spring picture
    Movies

    Come Next Spring (1956)

    A long-gone wayward man (Steve Cochran) returns sober to his wary wife (Ann Sheridan) and family in...

  • The Lively Set picture
    Movies

    The Lively Set (1964)

    A reckless young man, obessesed with his car racing, finally meets a girl who makes him turn his...

  • Yasha picture
    Movies

    Yasha

    In an emotional and dramatic -- if not melodramatic accounting of a former Japanese gang member,...

  • Lean on Me picture
    Movies

    Lean on Me (1989)

    Principal Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) goes to bat against drugs, crime and bad grades in his...