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Hud (1963) Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Ho

The Changeling (1980) It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems a

The Tenant (1976) In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsk

Being There (1979) A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a gues

The Candidate (1972) Californian lawyer Bill McKay fights for the little man. His charisma and integrity get him noticed by the Democratic Party machine and he is persuaded to run for the Senate against an apparently unassailable incumbent. It's agreed he can handle it his own way, on his own terms.

A Womans Face (1941) Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope of starting a new life, and a return to her dark past.

Ninotchka (1939) Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. So the three Russians who have come to sell the jewels settle into the suite until a higher ranking official is dispatched to find out what is delaying the sale. Sh

Angel (1937) A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

The Americanization of Emily 1964 During the build up to D Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were oversexed, overpaid, and over here Thats Lieutenant Commander Charles Edward Madison James Garner exactly he knows all of the angles to make lif

Advance to the Rear (1964) A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up to.

The Old Dark House (1932) Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm

Woman in the Dark 1934 A paroled prisoner hits a man attacking a woman He runs away scared that he may have killed him he did not From a book Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett

Billy Budd 1962 H M S Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere Sir Peter Ustinov He relies on his cruel and often sadistic Master at Arms John Claggert Robert Ryan to mainta

Theres Always a Woman (1938) An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case

The Vampire Bat (1933) When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gl

I Never Sang for My Father (1970) Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedd

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947) An obsessively bitter war widow and one of the men her husband saved in WW2 meet. He tries to convince her the sacrifice was necessary, but her problem isn't that simple. And can she help him with his wartime emotional scars he hides with alcohol?

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is easier said than done.

That Certain Age (1938) Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European

Tonight or Never 1931 A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer

Rapture 1965 Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union