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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

1 hr 29 mins

The bane of young Bart Collins' existence is the piano lessons he's forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker, the only person he detests because of his dictatorial nature. Bart feels that Dr. Terwilliker has undue influence on his widowed mother Heloise. Bart constantly daydreams of a place--the Terwilliker Institute--at which the evil madman is its overlord. The mad doctor's built a piano so immense that it needs 500 children to play it.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
  • 1953

The Divorcee

1 hr 24 mins

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.

The Divorcee
  • 1930

Last Summer in the Hamptons

1 hr 48 mins

Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances have forced them to put on the market. Victoria Foyt plays a young Hollywood actress whose visit wreaks havoc on the stellar group of family and friends - led by matriarch Viveca Lindfors and made up of an extraordinary mix of prominent New York actors, directors, and playwrights. In the course of a very unusual weekend, comic as well as serious situations arise, and the family's secrets - of which there are many - begin to unravel.

Last Summer in the Hamptons
  • 1995

Gray Lady Down

1 hr 51 mins

The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.

Gray Lady Down
  • 1978

A Dry White Season

1 hr 46 mins

Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener, Stanley's (Zakes Mokae's) son, Jonathan (Bekhithemba Mpofu), is brutally beaten up by the Police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.

A Dry White Season

Split Image

1 hr 50 mins

A rootless young man is drawn into an unnamed religious cult by a beautiful girl. Every moment with the group causes him to become increasingly under the control of the cult's leader. After his parents fail in their attempt, they hire someone who has experience in kidnapping and then 'de-programming', undoing the mental damage which had been done to him.

Split Image

We're Not Married!

1 hr 26 mins

A Justice of the Peace performs weddings a few days before his license is valid. A few years later, five couples learn that their marriages are not legal. Annabel Norris, already Mrs. Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. America contest, is now free to enter the Miss Mississippi contest.

We're Not Married!
  • 1952

Born Yesterday

1 hr 43 mins

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall to see if he can soften her rough edges and make her more presentable in capital society. But Harry gets more than he bargained for as Billie absorbs Verall's lessons in U.S. history and not only comes to the realization that Harry is nothing but a two-bit, corrupt crook, but in the process also falls in love with her handsome tutor.

Born Yesterday
  • 1950

A Place for Lovers

1 hr 28 mins

Julia, a divorced American fashion designer, is dying of a tragic, incurable disease. With only ten days to live, she spends her time vacationing in an Italian villa and watching television. She spots a TV interview with an Italian engineer Valerio, who designs plastic air bags to protect passengers in automobile collisions. She recognizes his face as having met him before at the airport and calls him up to invite him over to her villa where they decide to spend the next several days together, making love. Julia's friend Maggie reappears and reveals that Julia is actually an escapee from the hospital where she was being treated for her disease. Maggie urges Julia to return to the hospital where she can die a painless death. Julia ignores her and returns to the villa and the arms of her lover. Maggie then telephones Valerio and tells him about Julia's condition. Valerio is willing to stay for the duration but Julia is so upset by the fact that her lover knows her secret that she runs to a nearby mountaintop with the intention of committing suicide.

A Place for Lovers
  • 1968

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1 hr 53 mins

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. Once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Hidden Agenda

1 hr 48 mins

A member of a panel investigating British atrocities in Northern Ireland is caught up in the cover-up of the death of her boyfriend at the hands of British soldiers.

Hidden Agenda
  • 1990

Big Top Pee-wee

1 hr 26 mins

In the sequel to "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", Pee-Wee Herman has had enough with the fame and constant media attention he received after the events of the first movie, so he's now a simple farmer living quietly in a small town. But after a big storm blows their way, a circus ends up at Pee Wee's farm. So he lets the circus stay at his farm for a while. The circus decides to put on a show with one lovable star, Pee-Wee! Also, a love triangle develops between Pee-Wee, his nice fiancée Winnie, who's the local schoolteacher, and mysterious loner Gina, the circus' attractive trapeze artist. The outcome of this subplot is somewhat unexpected.

Big Top Pee-wee

Keeper of the Flame

1 hr 40 mins

American military leader and war hero Robert Forrest, universally beloved and respected within the country and thus touted as Presidential material, has just died in a freak car accident on his sprawling estate, where, during an unexpected rainstorm, the car he was driving plunged over a ravine as he didn't notice the washed-out bridge. While the nation mourns, the national reporters descend on his small hometown to write the story of the incident. One reporter who won't is renowned Steven O'Malley (Spencer Tracy), who wants instead to write an in-depth piece on the man to preserve his status within the public consciousness. Although happy to use official documents and records, O'Malley wants most specifically to speak to his wife, Christine Forrest (Katharine Hepburn), which may be a difficult task as she has refused to grant any interviews as a very private person. O'Malley is able to meet with Christine in person, and although she is reluctant to oblige his request at first, she is convinced by Robert's aide, Clive Kerndon (Richard Whorf), to cooperate with him so as to control the agenda. As O'Malley begins his research, he begins to think that Christine and others around her are hiding something about Robert and/or his death. O'Malley is determined to discover the truth, which he believes may have something to do with: Robert's mother (Margaret Wycherly), afflicted with dementia and hidden away in a big isolated house on the estate; Christine's cousin, Geoffrey Midford (Forest Tucker), who does not hide his disdain for Robert; and/or Jason Rickards (Howard Da Silva), one of Robert's servants, or one of Jason's children Jeb (Darryl Hickman), Jason who was once Robert's superior in the military before he was permanently injured in battle and saved by Robert in the process.

Keeper of the Flame

Our Mother's House

1 hr 44 mins

When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father , Charlie, reappears...

Our Mother's House
  • 1967

Bachelor in Paradise

1 hr 49 mins

A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'bachelor books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But after he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit, and settles him into Paradise Cove. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.

Bachelor in Paradise
  • 1961

The Conspirators

1 hr 41 mins

A spy thriller where a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII finds himself in Lisbon whilst escaping the Nazis. He soon joins up with underground conspirators, however, one of their number is a traitor.

The Conspirators
  • 1944

The Shining Hour

1 hr 16 mins

A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

The Shining Hour
  • 1938

Mysteries

1 hr 33 mins

Johan Nagel, a wealthy and enigmatic stranger arrives in a small coastal village on the Isle of Man. His presence disrupts the quiet life of the locals as he befriends an outcast dwarf and becomes deeply entangled with two very different women in the town - one virtuous and the other a seductive figure of desire. As Nagel's behavior grows increasingly unpredictable, his romantic obsessions and philosophical eccentricities blur the line between charm and madness.

Mysteries
  • 1978

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

1 hr 41 mins

The trials and tribulations of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as Marjorie Winfield's boyfriend, William Sherman, returns from the Army after W.W.I. Bill & Marjorie's on-again, off-again provide the backdrop for other family issues, primarily brought on by little brother Wesley's overactive imagination and tall tales.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
  • 1953

The Wings of the Dove

1 hr 42 mins

Kate Croy's (Helena Bonham Carter's) mother was born to wealth and privilege, but she threw it all away to marry Kate's Father (Sir Michael Gambon), a penniless opium addict who admits to having stolen from his wife. After her mother's death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the life her mother gave up. There is one condition, however: Kate must sever all of her old ties, not only to her father, but also to her lover, the muck-raking journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache), whom she has promised marriage. Kate reluctantly agrees to this, and in the meantime becomes friendly with "the world's richest orphan", Milly Theale (Alison Elliott), an American making the Grand Tour. Desperate to see Kate, Merton crashes a party that she and Milly are attending, and Milly is attracted to him. When Kate learns that Milly is dying, she comes up with a plan to have her cake and eat it too, but all does not go as planned.

The Wings of the Dove

Idiot's Delight

1 hr 47 mins

When song-and-dance man Harry Van returns from World War I, he finds work hard to come by. His greatest success comes as straight man in a phony vaudeville mind-reading act with the tipsy Madame Zulieka. While on tour in Omaha he meets acrobat Irene Fellara, and they have a brief romance. Twenty years later while Harry is on tour in Europe with a troupe of leggy blonde dancers, his train is stopped at the Swiss border and he finds himself stranded in the Alps in anticipation of World War II hostilities. Harry and his chorines take refuge in an Alpine hotel with a group of disparate travelers who are also marooned there. Among them are an American pacifist, British newlyweds, a cancer researcher, a German munitions manufacturer, and a beautiful blonde expatriate Russian aristocrat who looks suspiciously like the Irene of two decades earlier.

Idiot's Delight
  • 1939

Stroker Ace

1 hr 36 mins

Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.

Stroker Ace

Sweet Bird of Youth

2 hrs 0 mins

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.

Sweet Bird of Youth

The Mask of Fu Manchu

1 hr 9 mins

Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. Fu Manchu is also searching, and if he gets the mysteriously powerful relics, he and his diabolical daughter will enslave the world!

The Mask of Fu Manchu
  • 1932
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