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Where the Sidewalk Ends
(1950) [PG]

Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else....  More

The Good German
(2006) [MA]

Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his beautiful, embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena to the scheming...  More

A Bittersweet Life
(2005) [MA]

Cool headed perfectionist Sun-woo has earned the trust of his boss by adeptly managing an upscale restaurant. When his boss suspects his young lover of an affair he orders Sun-woo to kill her if she has betrayed him. When Sun-woo catches her with her secret lover, he surprisingly lets them go....  More

Brick
(2005) [M]

Off-beat drama from writer/director Rian Johnson, imitating the conventions of 1940s hardboiled film noir as a teenager investigates his ex-girlfriend's death in a small Southern Californian town. Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an outsider at his high school, but when his ex-girlfriend Emily...  More

Branded to Kill
(1967) [M]

Hanada is the 'Number 3' killer in the Japanese underworld. Hired by a mysterious woman, the scheduled hit goes very wrong and Handa is launched into a deadly cat and mouse game with the sexually perverse rice sniffing 'Number 1' killer. Filled with bizarre imagery, eroticism and brutal violence...  More

The Black Dahlia
(2006) [MA]

Her name was Elizabeth Short. She was a beautiful Hollywood starlet determined to be famous but destined to be infamous. It was the most notorious murder in California history. To the public, it was a sensation. To the two police officers investigation, it became an obsession. From mater...  More

Raw Deal
(1948) [M]

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for Rick, who owes him $50 Grand. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, knowing that Joe will be caught escaping and be shot or locked away forever. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann,...  More

Hollywoodland
(2006) [MA]

An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's 'Adventures of Superman', as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single...  More

House of Bamboo
(1955) [M]

In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heal ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But Eddie isn't quite what he seems as...  More

The Girl Hunters
(1963) [M]

Novelist Mickey Spillane portrays his own creation, Mike Hammer, in The Girl Hunters. Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers (Scott...  More