The Big Heat (1953)

6.7

Romance
2015
Movie

Tanna

6.7
2015

In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Genre : Romance

Drama
1953
Movie

Gate of Hell

7.2
1953

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.

6.8

Mystery
1944
Movie

Ministry of Fear

6.8
1944

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

Genre : Mystery

6.9

Drama
1997
Movie

The Eel

6.9
1997

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

6.4

Comedy
1957
Movie

The Prince and the Showgirl

6.4
1957

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

Genre : Comedy

Drama
1937
Movie

Pépé le Moko

7.2
1937

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

6.8

Drama
1954
Movie

The Barefoot Contessa

6.8
1954

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.

7.5

Crime
1939
Movie

The Roaring Twenties

7.5
1939

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Genre : Crime

Mystery
1944
Movie

Murder, My Sweet

7.2
1944

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Genre : Mystery

6.9

Comedy
1940
Movie

My Favorite Wife

6.9
1940

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.

Genre : Comedy

Mystery
1955
Movie

Kiss Me Deadly

7.2
1955

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Genre : Mystery

7.7

Western
1943
Movie

The Ox-Bow Incident

7.7
1943

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Genre : Western

7.4

Thriller
1953
Movie

Pickup on South Street

7.4
1953

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

Genre : Thriller

7.3

Romance
1947
Movie

Dark Passage

7.3
1947

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Genre : Romance

7.3

Drama
1941
Movie

How Green Was My Valley

7.3
1941

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

7.5

Comedy
1939
Movie

Ninotchka

7.5
1939

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Genre : Comedy

7.4

Western
1948
Movie

Red River

7.4
1948

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

Genre : Western