The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belon...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino....

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los ...

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

To make her father's dream come true, a woman, with the help of her sister, decide to disguise thems...

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...