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A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.

Carrie (1976) It's nearing the end of the school year. High school senior Carrie White is a social outcast, largely due to being unwise to the ways of the world based on her upbringing. Her mother, Margaret White, is a religious fanatic, her extreme views primarily targeted against sex, which she be

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

Tim is a young man with below average intelligence. He works as a builder's labourer, and is often taken advantage of by his fellow workers and other people. Mary asks Tim to work around her yard for a day. The day stretches into a few weekends, and the two soon become good friends. Some people, how

Children of a Lesser God (1986) James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her feelings change over t

Son of Ali Baba (1952) In medieval Persia, Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a roisterer by night. The morning after a rowdy banquet, Kiki, an escaped slave, takes shelter under Kashma's roof. Word comes that the wicked Caliph is looking for her; but Kashma, by this time in love, flees with

The Mississippi Gambler (1953) Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but

Trauma (1993) An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman an

Tiger Warsaw (1988) Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.

Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. H

Dawn at Socorro (1954) Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears

Smoke Signal (1955) Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the su

Ruby (1977) Sixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. Meanwhile, the behaviour of her mute daughter Leslie is becoming increasingly strange and a visiting psychic c

The Grass Harp (1995) After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena to market Dolly's locally-famous tonic, Dolly f

The Golden Blade 1953 Harum Rock Hudson is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan Piper Laurie, a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the Caliph She giv

Another Harvest Moon (2010) An elderly dementia patient must decide whether to leave this world under his own conditions, before he loses his dignity, or give in to his loving family and nursing home roommates' appeals to fight on and risk losing it.

A Christmas Memory 1997 A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried Buddy brings life to the house and develops a close friendship with one of the older, simple

Johnny Dark (1954) Automobile engineer, Johnny Dark, designs a radical new car. When the owner refuses to sponsor the car in a Canada to Mexico Sports-car race, Johnny, with the aid of the owner's granddaughter, steals the car and runs the race against the favored driver, his ex-buddy.

Mae West 1982 Biography of the curvaceous and sharp witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s 30s with her frank approach to sex

Francis Goes to the Races 1951 Peters been friends with Francis since Burma Francis is a talking mule He ends up being sent to the race tracks with Travers race horses Peter gets a ride there from Miss Travers Francis tells Peter whos winning the horse race and he bets 10 FBI agents are suspicious a