In Budapest, in the shop of the unfriendly Mr. Matuschek work Flora, Ilona, Pepi, Vadas, the old Pirovich and Alfred Kralik, the most important shop assistant. One day, Klara Novak enters the shop and gets a job because she manages to sell an item which was considered unsellable. Alfred reveals to Pirovich that he has a pen-girlfriend he has never met in person. When he find...
Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene...
Lucy Muir, a beautiful widow, moves with her daughter into a seaside cottage. She soon discovers her new home is haunted by the handsome ghost of a sea captain. When Lucy loses her income, the captain comes up with a solution to her financial woes and, in the process, wins her heart. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and a young Natalie Wood co-star in one of the most romantic g...
A writer meets a young socialite on board a train. The two fall in love and are married soon after, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both them and everyone else around them. Amazing and sensational drama, perversive and fascinating. Gene Tierney's beauty is breath-taking, as gorgeus is the Oscar winning cinematography by Leon Shamr...
Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura Hunt, found dead on her apartment floor. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love?...
Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body, Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the killing on cab driver Jiggs T...
The famous orchestra conductor Sir Alfred De Carter returns to New York after a long journey. His brother-in-law delivers him a report showing that his wife Daphne has betrayed him with his young secretary. During one of his concerts, Alfred begins planning three different ways of solving the problem - uxoricide, forgiveness, duel - setting each to a different classic...
Three ladies receive a letter from their “best friend” Addie Ross, who announces that she is running away with one of their husbands, but she does not say which one. Little by little, through the use of flashbacks we discover the weaknesses of each of the three couples, in a tale of passion, fragility, little tragedies and pettiness, illustrated with a bri...
The unsettling lives of a group of teenagers from California. The film opens with the suicide of Ken Park, who shoots himself in the head with a handgun to avoid becoming a father. Claude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father, who detests him for being insufficiently masculine. Peaches' father, an extremely religious man, catches her and her boyfri...
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune, meets Jean Harrington and her dad, "Colonel" Harrington, on a ship. Jean falls hard for Pike and shields him from her card sharp father, but when Pike's valet discovers the truth about her and her father, Pike dumps her. Furious at being scorned, ...
Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ”They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition. Over this crucial weekend while their parents are away, J’s ...
