Yojimbo is a Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, set in the late Edo period of Japan. The film follows a wandering ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small, lawless town torn between two rival gangs. With his cunning and swordsmanship, he plays both sides against each other to bring about […]
Spellbound - 1945
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist at Green Manors mental asylum. The head of Green Manors has just been replaced, with his replacement being the renowned Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck). Romance blossoms between Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwardes, but Dr. Edwardes starts to show odd aversions and personality traits.
Seven Samurai - 1954
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village’s request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits […]
The Naked Kiss - 1964
Kelly, a prostitute, traumatised by an experience, referred to as ‘The Naked Kiss,’ by psychiatrists, leaves her past, and finds solace in the town of Grantville. She meets Griff, the police captain of the town, with whom she spends a romantic afternoon. Kelly finds a job as a nurse in a hospital for handicapped children. […]
The Wasp Woman - 1959
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula’s side effects have deadly consequences.
The Ghoul - 1933
An Egyptologist comes back from the dead to wreak havoc on the living that disturbed his tomb and messed with his precious jewel.
The Mystery of Mr. Wong - 1939
The second of the Mr. Wong series. In this one Boris finds Brandon Edwards who is getting the largest star sapphire in the world, the “Eye of the Daughter of the Moon”. He confides in Wong that his life is in danger. He dies, and in another few murders the sapphire gets juggled around a […]
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 […]