Kwaidan
Synopsis: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish production draws […]
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La frusta e il corpo
Synopsis: Nevenka’s ex-lover, who is her husband’s brother, Kurt, has come back to claim her and he does so by engaging in a forbidden rendezvous. The next day Kurt is […]
Hausu
Synopsis: How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any […]
The Frighteners: The Director’s Cut
Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) comes this wicked comedy-thriller. Michael J. Fox stars as Frank Bannister, a small-town “ghostbuster” in league […]
La cité de la peur
Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie “Red […]
Basic Instinct
Synopsis: Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone co-stars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine […]
Alias Nick and Nora
Synopsis: Their on-screen chemistry in the Thin Man films forever linked William Powell and Myrna Loy in moviegoers’ minds. Now you can learn about the impressive careers–together and separately–of these […]
Song of the Thin Man
Synopsis: At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader’s body is growing cold. They’re […]
Duel
Synopsis: Fear Is The Driving Force. Steven Spielberg directs this high-velocity thriller about a motorist terrorized by an evil truck. Spielberg’s first full-length movie, Duel, helped jumpstart the director’s big-screen […]
The Thin Man Goes Home
Synopsis: Outlaws come and go in Nick and Nora’s lives. Now it’s time to meet the in-laws. The debonair sleuths leave little Nicky Jr. at boarding school, grab Asta and […]
Shadow of the Thin Man
Synopsis: A jockey who threw a race is murdered in the locker room. “My, they’re strict at this track!” Nora Charles exclaims. With that, she (Myrna Loy) and hubby Nick […]
Another Thin Man
Synopsis: Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They’re just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional bon vivants Nick and Nora Charles. And now there’s a […]
Xing ji dun tai
Synopsis: ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it’s unlike any sci-fi flick you’ve ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, […]
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