What to Watch Right Now

A period drama set in the early years of the twentieth century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.

Peggy (Molly Shannon) is single, childless, in her forties, a lonely executive assistant in a friendly office. Her dog Pencil is the love of her life, and when he dies after eating some sort of toxin, Peggy's life spins out of her control: a friendly neighbor invites her for dinner; a friendly staff member at her vet's calls with an abused dog he recommends she adopt - she does, and also finds herself attracted to this fellow. She becomes a vegan, supports animal-rights causes, and embroils her brother's young children in these concerns. Saving dogs and other animals become such a passion that her mental health and her job may be in danger. Are regaining control and finding love beyond her reach?

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José's studies easier...

A woman private eye investigates a complex case involving murder, blackmail and a mysterious cult.

During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel reservations when she feels the accommodations are inadequate. With no rooms available in the entire city, Lee and Jane pose as a married couple and take positions as maid and butler in the Cromwell's home until the contract can be secured.

David Hemmings plays GPO rider with ambitions to be a pop star. He's joined by Joe Meek regular Heinz as well as Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. Look out for Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple) Steve Marriot (Small Faces) and many other sixties pop figures.

When it comes to "hare-raising" horror, nothing comes close to 1972's Night of the Lepus! Starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. this cult classic centers on a hormone intended to alter the breeding cycle of rabbits overrunning ranchlands. Instead the hormone turns these rabbits into flesh-eating, 150-pound monsters!

Having just been picked up in relation to a shooting and a potential murder, Stanley Maxton relays his recent past to the Los Angeles police. A war vet, he was hospitalized at a VA facility for issues sustained during the war, he needing to feel able to rejoin general life before being released when he hoped to restart his career as a drummer. He tells how he met racketeer Sonny Johnson and how and why he started to work for Sonny in the "insurance" business, code for Sonny's criminal activities, rather than pursue what was his original thought of getting back into music. He tells how he met dancer Jane Tafford, who only wanted to date men who could further her career, which Stanley could not, the nature of their relationship due to that issue combined with he being in love with her and wanting to marry her. And he tells of how he met Fluff, the owner/operator of Fluff's Dixieland, a club, and how and why he became a fixture at Fluff's. Over the course of the discussions between Stanley and the police, the nature of the investigation changes.

A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the boy turns out to autistic. Unhappy with the diagnoses and treatments available, they decide to work out their own therapy program for their son.

After having a nervous breakdown, a rock singer has to spend some time in hospital. A private nurse is hired, and with her he buys a new house, a fantastic house in the country. The nurse, Sheila, can't remember the first years of her life, but this house seems strangely familiar to her. Also, there is this strange old woman who claims that Sheila's real name is Margaret. People who cause Sheila pain or who try to tell her the real story of what happened in this house, they die in strange ways: Tanya, the girlfriend of the singer, and the Library woman who wants to give her some newspaper articles. Can Sheila find out the truth behind all this and can she escape the house that possessed once and wants to possess once more?

As part of a plot to assassinate a visiting Middle-Eastern premier, professional killers invade the home of a flight controller and hold his terrified family hostage.

Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ailments suddenly appearing among the general populace.

In the mountains of Switzerland at the end of the Via Mala, Jonas Lauretz tyrannically rules his family. While he's enjoying himself in the city, spraying his family's hard-won pay, his daughter, son, wife and servant toil in the sawmill.

The story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends.

After being orphaned, two beautiful identical twins move from Vienna to the village of Karnstein. There they are to live with their Uncle, a fanatical Puritan. Nearby, the Count of the village is performing a sacrificial rite which raises his ancestor, the vampire Countess. After she bites him, he too becomes a vampire and sets off in search of victims.

A lusty pirate, Barbarossa (John Payne), escapes from a Spanish prison. With other inmates as crew, he captures a galleon--complete with a Spanish countess (Donna Reed). And, love blooming, he takes on the armada and the garrison in Havana.

Two Americans, with their young daughter Trina, live in the northern Mexican desert, searching for family diamonds lost years before. Jump ahead, Trina's parents are mysteriously dead, and Trina, now grown, continues the search against the advice of Frank, an old family friend. Two gringo convicts, recently escaped from the Matamoros prison and headed for Texas, stumble upon the diamonds then find Trina and ask her for a ride. She realizes they've found the diamonds, keeps that from them, and tries to spirit the diamonds away. Various alliances form and break, one of the convicts tries to convince her to abandon her quest, and Frank watches from a distance.

While digging a new Underground line in London, a construction crew discovers first: a skeleton, then what they think is an old World War II German missile. Upon closer examination the "missile" appears to be not of this earth. This movie examines the age old question of how we came to be on this planet. It is surprisingly scary.

John Macready, a seafaring captain who has been beached for losing his ship, goes into the salvage-from-wrecked-vessels business with lovable old George Lockhart, and is leading the fight against the erection of a lighthouse that would tend to do damage to the salvage business. Macready's brother Angus dies in a shipwreck, and Macready begins to suspect that his lovable old partner may be causing the shipwrecks by misdirecting the vessels.

A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.

Several traveling salesmen get involved with business, booze, romance, party girls and a lot more while staying at a hotel Detroit.

Sammi Curr was a famous, devil-worshiping rock star who died under mysterious circumstances. Now he wants to come back to life. Doing so requires possessing radio wave & automobiles and making a few human sacrifices.

John "Ringo" Baker shoots an Army Captain in New Mexico in self defense and his brother, Lieutenant Mike Baker is charged with bringing him in. Ringo is on his way to Utah to see Livvy Weston and has an encounter with the U.S. Cavalry patrol led by his brother, and wounds Mike in making his escape. He arrives in the town of Gunlock and befriends Glenn Larrabee, owner of a small ranch whose property, and that of the other ranchers, is coveted by Wade Proctor. Ringo becomes Glenn's partner and organizes the small ranchers to fight against Proctor, who sends a fast-draw, hired gunman, Dancer, gunning for Ringo, who also has his brother and the Army closing in on him.