Vincent Parry, unjustly condemned of his's wife's murder, has only one possibility: plastic surgery. He changes his appearance and starts looking for the murderer. A young and beautiful woman helps him escape from the police. It is the third of four films that the real-life couple Bacall and Bogart made together.
In Venice, Gaston, a master thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily, a beautiful thief also pretending to be of the nobility. The two fall in love and decide to team up. They leave Venice for Paris, where they work for the famous perfume manufacturer Mariette Colet with the intention of stealing a great sum of money from her safe. Colet begins to flirt with Gaston and he b...
Every year, Gretchen spends one whole day solving as many crosswords as possible. Her aim is to break her own record, even though she knows that nobody will be there to celebrate with her. She uses to spend this day on several lines of the underground, in New York. That's the place where she can give the best. Focused on the crosswords, she doesn't care about the world arou...
The story takes place in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, in West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Harry Powell, a self-anointed preacher, and a serial killer, travels rural roads, preaching in small towns. Arrested for driving a stolen car and sentenced to jail, he meets Ben Harper, a robber who has two children, John and Pearl. After a bank robbery of 10.000 dollars,...
Two biologists, doctor Reed and the young Kay Lawrence, leave for the Amazon River to study the rests of an unknown prehistoric creature, a specie which is half human and half amphibious. A classic movie for the lovers of this genre and a blockbuster in 1954.
Harry Hinkle, an honest cameraman, is knocked over during a football game by the Afro-American champion Luther "Boon Boom" Jackson. His brother in law, an unscrupulous lawyer, persuades him to pretend to be paralyzed to cheat the insurance. A funny comedy about family ties, cynicism and material interests: everybody is cheating to satisfy their own needs.
In post-war Casablanca, all the managers of a famous hotel have wound up being murdered by a Nazi who introduces himself as Count Pfefferman. His aim is to recover a hoard of war, a collection of art works that has been cached in the hotel. Also the new director risks to be killed, but with the help of two employees of the hotel, he will manage to have the killer and his gan...
Set in between the 19th and 20th century, when the industrialization process revolutionizes the consolidated habits, the movie tells the story of the Amberson, the wealthiest family in the southern States, and their downfall caused by their inability to accept any change. The widow Amberson would like to marry again with one of her former lover. Her son, proud and selfish, i...
Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
