Distaff Noir From German director Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) American period, this noir melodrama, adapted from the Clifford Odets play, opens with Barbara Stanwyck as a fallen woman returning to a seaside hamlet to find unstable domesticity with a simpleminded fisherman (Paul Douglas).
Polish Film Festival Wajda’s first bona fide masterpiece and the conclusion of his informal “war trilogy,” Ashes and Diamonds bravely depicts the uneasy Polish political realities in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Labor Film Series With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Beneach) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she works as a nurse on the overnight shift. With one colleague out sick and no replacement on deck, just two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen patients.
Halloween Bela Lugosi is Dracula, determined to pick Lou Costello's brain - literally. The vampire wants to put Lou's brain in Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), but werewolf Lon Chaney Jr. is busy trying to tip Abbott and Costello off about the plot.
Lovecraftian Not adapted directly from Lovecraft’s work, but heavily inspired by it, the final film in director John Carpenter’s loose “Apocalypse Trilogy” finds Sam Neill as John Trent, an insurance agent on the trail of missing author Sutter Cane.
