When Beatrice (Estella Blain) decides to spend an evening with a group of wealthy playboys, her working class fiance, Pierre (Robert Hossein), follows her and exposes a gang of organized criminals.... more
Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Gloria Madison, Nicholas Joy. A young black man becomes a victim of white society as he finds himself hopelessly caught in a web of political oppression. Based on the... more
Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt. From the director of The Big Heat comes this long-lost film noir masterpiece about a successful novelist who murders his maid and with his brother disposes of... more
Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philipe. Set in chic 1950s Paris with a classic jazz score by Thelonious Monk, this tale of love, sex and betrayal is tres French. A scandalous married couple help one another... more
Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman. Two buddies have their fishing trip ruined with their car breaks down and they find themselves at the mercy of a psychopath. A rare film noir directed... more
More than a concert film, this classic 1959 documentary chronicles the day and the night of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Along with candid scenes of the crowd and the town, you'll see an amazing... more
Claus Holm, Mario Adorf. A Nazi soldier turned police detective pursues the serial killer he believes is responsible for the murders of dozens of women over the course of the Third Reich. The... more
Dorothy Dandridge, Curt Jurgens, Jean Servais. This bold and daring drama is set in 1815 aboard an illegal slave ship, whose brutal captain sparks a revolt among his prisoners led by Tamango. The... more
Shooting on location in New York City and capturing intimate moments in the lives of the common person, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin have come to be recognized as pioneers of the American independent... more
Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith. Soldiers crash 6 miles behind enemy lines. After making a simple plan to escape the enemy, they are discovered by young woman who might give them away. The matter is... more
Death in the Garden (1956) is one of Luis Buñuel's (Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) most underrated films, a delirious descent into the heart of darkness. A revolt has erupted... more
Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot. Famed inspector Jules Maigret is up against a ticking clock. In Paris, a woman-killing madman increases his tally of murders every night, and the sense... more
Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier. Inspector Maigret returns home to meet an old friend, a Countess who sent him an ominous letter. But when he arrives and finds her dead by heart attack,... more
Peter Falk, Barbara Lord, Jack Betts. From the director of the cult classic The Mask comes this turned-on tale of beatniks, murder and revenge. When a messenger boy dies from eating a hamburger laced... more
In 1944, after their vessel was scuttled by American air power, a dozen Japanese merchant seamen found themselves shipwrecked on the small Mariana isle of Anatahan-with the sole population being a... more
In postwar London, 16-year-old tough Roy Walsh (James Kenney) found a knack for leading the rest of the neighborhood hooligans in targeting and mugging women. Although he manipulates a lenient... more
Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot. Famed inspector Jules Maigret is up against a ticking clock. In Paris, a woman-killing madman increases his tally of murders every night, and the sense... more