Drama

1983

R

Plot: Ava Gardner made her last theatrical film appearance in the German-Italian Regina. Gardner is cast as the Smothering Mom to end them all, determined to keep her middle-aged son Ray Sharke ...

Horror

1982

NR

Plot: The poor social skills of a young yokel turn out to have a horrifying explanation in this low-budget splatterfest, which marks the debut of Frankenhooker director Frank Henenlotter. The f ...

Mystery

1989

NR

Plot: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allinghams novel The Case of the Late Pig. The title character is Roland Isidor ...

Mystery

2002

Plot: Another in a long line of revisionist Sherlock Holmes dramas, the made-for-cable Case of Evil offers a 28-year-old Holmes (James DArcy) who, in contrast with his later and more fam ...

History [nf]

1997

Plot: For years, debate has raged over just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico, where a UFO was purported to have crashed, with alien bodies found on board. In 1997, the United States Air Force produced a ...

Culture & Society

1996

NR

Plot: This documentary examines the evidence on both sides, of the guilt or innocence of Abu Jamal, a black man who was convicted in the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia police officer. Now serving time o ...

Science Fiction

2001

NR

Plot: This independent comedy pokes fun at low-budget sci-fi films of the 1950s and 1960s as well as the pop psychology and social mores of the 1990s as Charles OToole (Rick Ziegler), a gifted scientist, inv ...

Mystery

2004

Plot: The similarities between the murder of a lowly shop-girl and a glamorous debutante spark legendary detective Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) to break out his famous magnifying glass and crack the case ...

NR

Plot: Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his fourth screen appearance as S. S. Van Dines dilettante detective ...