Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Actors: Carl Esmond, Carleton Young, Charles D. Brown, Eddie Albert, Janet Murdoch, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Robert Shayne, Sharyn Payne, Susan Hayward
The Landlord
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders “runs away” from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn….
Tulips in Spring
At Payden Farms, Rose meets Tom Novak — a handsome “flower broker” who acts as a liaison between the farm and local distributors — and discovers that the farm is…
Shanghai Kiss
Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother’s home in…
Devil’s Island
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant’s daughter.
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while…
Plan 75
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of…
The Glass House
After the parents of Ruby and her younger brother, Rhett, are killed in a car crash, their parents’ best friends, Erin and Terry Glass, become their guardians. The children hear…
The Great Gatsby
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see…
Angel Face
8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves…