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King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis
IMDb: 8.2
185

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the…

Genre: Documentary
Strip Search

Strip Search

Strip Search
IMDb: 6.2
86

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Running on Empty

Running on Empty

Running on Empty
IMDb: 7.6
116

The Popes are a family who haven’t been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes
IMDb: 6.4
99

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn’t…

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night
IMDb: 7.5
174

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest…

Genre: Drama, History
Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.1
137

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Group

The Group

The Group
IMDb: 6.6
152

It’s 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl’s school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film…

Genre: Drama
Deathtrap

Deathtrap

Deathtrap
IMDb: 7
116

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student’s script.

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty

Find Me Guilty
IMDb: 7
125

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Gloria

Gloria

Gloria
IMDb: 5.1
108

Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who…

Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan
IMDb: 6.6
113

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Q & A

Q & A

Q & A
IMDb: 6.5
132

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.

Family Business

Family Business

Family Business
IMDb: 5.7
110

Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and…

The Verdict

The Verdict

The Verdict
IMDb: 7.7
129

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it…

Genre: Drama
Daniel

Daniel

Daniel
IMDb: 6.6
130

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the…

Genre: Drama
Network

Network

Network
IMDb: 8.1
122

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network…

Genre: Drama
The Offence

The Offence

The Offence
IMDb: 6.9
112

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
IMDb: 7.3
128

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair
IMDb: 6.7
115

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan’s wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination…

The Hill

The Hill

The Hill
IMDb: 7.9
123

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It’s not a military objective. It’s The Hill, a…

Genre: Drama, War
Fail Safe

Fail Safe

Fail Safe
IMDb: 8
N/A

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

Genre: Comedy, Kids
The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind
IMDb: 7.1
119

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying…

Genre: Drama, Romance
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
IMDb: 9
97

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father….

Genre: Drama
Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon
IMDb: 8
125

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Critical Care

Critical Care

Critical Care
IMDb: 5.9
107

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Just Tell Me What You Want

Just Tell Me What You Want

Just Tell Me What You Want
IMDb: 5.5
112

A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Lovin’ Molly

Lovin’ Molly

Lovin’ Molly
IMDb: 5.5
98

Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Garbo Talks

Garbo Talks

Garbo Talks
IMDb: 6.4
103

When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Sea Gull

The Sea Gull

The Sea Gull
IMDb: 6.8
144

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Serpico

Serpico

Serpico
IMDb: 7.7
130

Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and…

Genre: Crime, History
A Stranger Among Us

A Stranger Among Us

A Stranger Among Us
IMDb: 5.6
110

Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker

The Pawnbroker
IMDb: 7.7
116

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Wiz

The Wiz

The Wiz
IMDb: 5.4
134

Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.

The Morning After

The Morning After

The Morning After
IMDb: 5.9
102

Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening — and with a dead body in bed…

Prince of the City

Prince of the City

Prince of the City
IMDb: 7.4
167

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
IMDb: 7.3
117

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents’ jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Guilty as Sin

Guilty as Sin

Guilty as Sin
IMDb: 5.6
107

Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

Bye Bye Braverman

Bye Bye Braverman

Bye Bye Braverman
IMDb: 5.6
94

One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie’s widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with…

Genre: Comedy
Power

Power

Power
IMDb: 5.7
111

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics,…

Genre: Drama
Child’s Play

Child’s Play

Child’s Play
IMDb: 6.2
100

At an exclusive boys’ school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as…