FILMMAKER FAVS

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

During the 1950s, a man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.

In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

The secretary to a psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.

Political corruption is vividly depicted as a ruthless WWI veteran takes almost complete control of a state with the help of a crooked lawyer. The film is enhanced by John Payne's persuasive performance as "The Boss."

An urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor.

Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.

War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.

A naive young girl becomes the target of a murderous sociopath when she attempts to reinvent herself to impress the boys in her small Texas town.

Amir lives in California with his wife Soraya. He receives a call from his uncle Rahim Khan who urges him to travel to Afghanistan and rescue the son of Amir's childhood servant and friend, Hassan.

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

After his brother tries to kill him, a man survives only to find himself in another man's body.

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

When an emotionally-disturbed young boy shuts out all of his family and friends, a counselor tries to help bring him and his family together again.