The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck’s iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family — led by just-paroled son Tom — loads up a truck and heads West. On the road, beset by hardships, the Joads meet dozens […]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - 1920
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. This is a classic and a first in it’s genre. Many movies since have used the “Genius / Crazy Guy Controls Someone To Do Crazy Things” gimmick.
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages - 1916
Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras. In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious rivalry that leads to the city’s downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the impending St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare for marriage. […]
His Girl Friday - 1940
Hildy Johnson, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is getting ready to leave her career and marry a second time, this time to a somewhat bland, though well-meaning, insurance salesman. But not before her sly and charismatic ex-husband and boss Walter Burns (played by Cary Grant) tries every trick up his sleeve to get Hildy […]
The Roaring Twenties - 1939
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Pygmalion - 1938
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Scarlet Street - 1945
When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
My Man Godfrey - 1936
my-man-godreyA homeless man gets a job as a butler after going on a scavenger hunt with an airy, well-to-do socialite. There is more than meets the eye about Godfrey, and soon Irene has fallen in love with the family’s new butler, even if she feels such attraction between a once-homeless butler and an airy, well-to-do […]
Night of the Living Dead - 1968
On a visit to their father’s grave, Barbara and her cynical brother Johnny see a strange visitor in the cemetery. They both get their first sign that something horrible has happened when the strange visitor bloodthirstily attacks Barbara. As Johnny moves in to save Barbara, he himself is attacked and killed. A frightened and hysterical […]
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