Jul 31, 2007
Horrors of Spider Island (1962)
A plane crash leaves a dance troupe stranded on a deserted island where a mutant spider bite turns the troupe's leader into a monster.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
Andy Hardy returns home after serving in the army. And it's not too long before he's caught up in the usual Hardy capers.
Jul 29, 2007
Little Men (1940)
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused.
Jul 26, 2007
Alfred Hitchcock - The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Travellers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears.
Jul 25, 2007
Alfred Hitchcock - Jamaica Inn (1939)
In Cornwall, around 1800, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Alfred Hitchcock - Under Capricorn (1949)
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness
Alfred Hitchcock - Secret Agent (1936)
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences
The Werewolf Cult Chronicles, Part I: Chimera (2003)
At the early part of the 21st century, overpopulation across the planet led the top countries to investigate the possibility of colonizing other planets. Far more economically plausible, however, was the possibility of colonizing the empty frozen lands of Siberia, Antarctica, and Northern Canada and making them fit for human occupation. America, Russia, and Canada all combined their scientific efforts to use their many isolated arctic Cold War-era radio-tracking stations, known as "The Dew Line", as precursors for future self-operating civilian communities. However, the remote locations of the bases made them ideal hosts for governments' most secretive experiments. This is a tale of such an experiment gone wrong.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. Surprised there is any question on his suitability, he recounts his lively life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, but mainly concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult twenty-five years of marriage to Martha.
Jul 24, 2007
Beat the Devil (1953)
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen.
Directed by John Huston. Screenplay by Truman Capote and John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre.
Directed by John Huston. Screenplay by Truman Capote and John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre.
Jul 23, 2007
Moon Child english subbed (2003)
In the year 2014, Japan has collapsed economically and thus its people emigrated in large numbers and settled in other parts of the world. In a corner in Asia, there is a little street called Mallepa, a big melting pot where Asians such as Hongkongers, Taiwanese and Japanese live together. It was a place where people fought for order, food and freedom. It was there where Shou, raised as an orphan and Kei, who could live forever, met and became the best of friends. However, they were unable to escape from the fight for power involving gangs of different ethnicity on the street of Malepa.
Ninja Dragon (1986)
The Ninja Dragon begins with major figures in the ninja community being slaughtered. The film follows the exploits of three ninjas as they attempt to figure out what evil people want to bring an end to all ninjas, and also to rescue the kidnapped daughter of one of their mentors.
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Amos 'n Andy - Check and Double Check (1930)
Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
Jul 22, 2007
The She Beast (1966)
A couple on their honeymoon in Transylvania crash their car into a lake-the same lake where a witch was drowned many years before. The witch takes over the wife's body and it's up to her husband and a descendent of Van Helsing to save her.
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein's granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse's slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor.
Warning From Space (1956)
A group of starfish like aliens from the planet Pyra, which is on the same orbital plane as Earth but on the opposite side of the sun, come to Earth to warn mankind about a runaway planetoid known as Planet R that is on a collision course with Earth.
Jul 21, 2007
Mutiny (1952)
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard.
Jul 20, 2007
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Dr Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973)
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Puppet Master (1989)
Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon's puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon's puppets who have a variety of strange traits including a drill for a head and the ability to spit up leeches.
Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune.
Jul 19, 2007
Made for Each Other (1939)
Young lawyer meets and marries girl after knowing her one day. Takes bride home to meet his mother who disapproves of the marriage. Lawyer thinks everything will be fine as he moves up the ladder of the law firm. He doesn't and things get tough. A baby makes things even tougher.
Laurel and Hardy - Utopia (1951)
Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiancé, they set up their own government on the atoll. Uranium is discovered and world powers begin fighting over ownership of the island.
Jul 18, 2007
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Little David MacLean has a problem--all the adults in town begin acting strangely shortly after he sees strange lights settling behind a hill near his home.
Held for Ransom (1938)
Kidnapers of a wealthy man have more problems than just an agent on their trail when the ransom money is picked up by an innocent bystander who tries to return it to its rightful owners. He's killed and both good guys and bad guys try to find where he hid it.
Girl o' My Dreams (1934)
A college setting here, with a looming election and neglected sweethearts while the hustings are in full vigour.
Jul 16, 2007
Baby Love (1968)
Now 15 years old, Luci grew up alone with her slutty mother in a poor district of London. After her mother's suicide, Robert, her mother's former high-school boyfriend, brings Luci to his home where she meets his rich wife Aimee and their teenage son.
Jul 15, 2007
The Brain Machine (1977)
Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950)
In Paris, a down and out medical student is paid to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder is suspected.
Jul 14, 2007
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)
Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing.
Captain Scarlett (1953)
A 19th-century Frenchman who returns home after years away to discover that his lands have been seized by a nefarious nobleman. After saving the life of beautiful princess Leonora Amar, he tries to reclaim his property with the help of a young man who has also been the victim of injustice.
It's a Joke, Son! (1947)
Beauregard Claghorn is a blustery barber shop orator; no mortal can silence him except his wife. He soon finds himself in a heap of hot water when he is persuaded to run for state senate.
Jul 13, 2007
The Second Woman (1950)
Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia?
West of the Divide (1934)
Ted Hayden (John Wayne) impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father. He saves Virginia Winters' dad's ranch from Gentry and also rescues his long-lost brother Spud.
Jul 12, 2007
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
Jul 10, 2007
Quicksand (1950)
After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.
Jul 8, 2007
A Star is Born (1937)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor machine.
Jul 3, 2007
Captain Kidd (1945)
Captain Kidd, a ruthless pirate, schemes to escort a treasure ship bound from India to England.
Jul 2, 2007
Popeye - I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936)
Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive).
Popeye - Little Swee' Pea (1936)
Popeye takes Swee' Pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
Jul 1, 2007
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
The owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he's been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde on the night of their 20th wedding anniversary. He has to find a way to convince her that the "beautiful blonde" in question was actually a store mannequin that he was taking in for repairs.
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