
Whiplash (2014)
Director: Damien Chazelle
Actors: Austin Stowell, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Miles Teller, Nate Lang, Paul Reiser
Country: United States of America
The Two Jakes (1990)
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife’s lover, who happens to be his business…
The Swordsman of Siena (1962)
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the…
The Chef (2005)
Death in Small Doses (1957)
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from…
DNA (2020)
Naked Alibi (1954)
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is…
Prison in the Andes (2024)
The Cleaner (2021)
When middle-aged house cleaner Buck Enderly takes on an eccentric new client, he gets roped into locating her estranged son. Buck tracks down the disturbed young man but in another…