Maciste in Hell
Year: 1925
Country: Italy
Director: Guido Brignone
Starring: Bartolomeo Pagano, Franz Sala, Elena Sangro, Lucia Zanussi, Umberto Guarracino, Domenico Serra, Pauline Polaire
Available Quality: DivX
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
Hercules Unchained
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1959
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Director: Pietro Francisci
Starring: Primo Carnera, Sergio Fantoni, Carlo D'Angelo, Sylva Koscina, Mimmo Palmara, Steve Reeves, Sylvia Lopez
Available Quality: DivX
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
The Sea of Grass
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Barrat, Russell Hicks, Robert Armstrong, Melvyn Douglas, Trevor Bardette
Available Quality: DivX
The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Pork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Hepburn's character, Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own, and eventually leaves him just long enough to conceive a child with her husband's moral enemy. Two years later, in the midst of a crisis, her husband discovers ...
She Gods of Shark Reef
Genres: Adventure
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Lisa Montell, Bill Cord, Don Durant, Jeanne Gerson, Carol Lindsay
Available Quality: DivX
Two men escaping the police by ship are blown off course by a typhoon and shipwrecked on an uncharted island populated by women who make a living diving for pearls. What the men don't know is that the women are also part of a shark cult that sacrifices young virgins to the sharks in the surrounding ocean in order to appease the shark gods.
Queen of the Amazons
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Edward Finney
Starring: Wilson Benge, John Miljan, Keith Richards, J. Edward Bromberg, Patricia Morison, Robert Lowery, Amira Moustafa
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Jean Preston leads a party to India to investigate the disappearance of her fiance, Greg Jones, but someone manages to thwart their efforts through lies and murder. They pursue the trail to Africa where guide Gary Lambert and his comic cook Gabby guide them into unknown territory. Greg is found living with Zita, a jealous and beautiful Amazon queen. The mysterious deaths continue as Lambert tries to discover who has been dealing in contraband ivory. When he solves that mystery, he also uncovers the identity of the mysterious murderer.
12 Angry Men
Year: 1957
Country: USA
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Henry Fonda, Jack Warden, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman
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"12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis' bases his vote more so fo...
My Friend Irma Goes West
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Year: 1950
Country: USA
Director: Hal Walker
Starring: Kenneth Tobey, Dean Martin, Don Porter, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson, Lloyd Corrigan, Corinne Calvet
Available Quality: DivX
In this sequel film, all the characters remain the same; Al is still unemployed, Jane still has show-biz aspirations for boyfriend Steve; Steve and Seymour are still partners, and Irma is still Irma, which isn't all that easy. Al gets Steve a singing job on television, which is seen by a Hollywood producer. He signs Steve to a long term movie contract, and all hands depart for Hollywood. But, alas, the producer turns out to be an escaped lunatic, and they end up in Las Vegas, where Irma manages to get kidnapped by gangsters, who are very unhappy with Irma.
Helen of Troy (1955)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1956
Country: USA, Italy
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Marc Lawrence, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Douglas
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
God's Little Acre
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: Jack Lord, Robert Ryan, Russell Collins, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Tina Louise, Lance Fuller
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A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter's hand in marriage.
I Love Lucy - Season Six
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX
The show provided Ball ample opportunity to display her considerable skill at clowning and physical comedy. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms, so little was offered about her life before the show.
I Love Lucy - Season Seven
Year: 1956
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
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A few episodes mentioned that she was born in Jamestown, New York (Lucille Ball's real-life home town), (later corrected to West Jamestown), that she graduated from Jamestown High School, that her maiden name was "McGillicuddy" (indicating an Irish ethnicity, though she once mentioned her grandmother was Swedish), and that she met Ricky on a blind date. Her family was absent, other than occasional appearances by her mother (Kathryn Card), who can never get Ricky's name right, she has once called him Mickey Richardson. Lucy also exhibited many stereotypical female traits that were standard for comedy at the time, including being secretive abo...
I Love Lucy - Season Eight
Year: 1957
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
She is also depicted as a devoted housewife and attentive mother. Lucy and Ricky are mountain climbing in the Alps during their 1956 European vacation.Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, is an up-and-coming Cuban American singer and bandleader with an excitable personality.
I Love Lucy - Season Nine
Year: 1958
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
When exasperated, he often reverts to speaking rapidly in Spanish. As with Lucy, not much is revealed about his past or family. Ricky's mother (played by actress Mary Emery) appears in two episodes; in another Lucy mentions that he has five brothers. Ricky also mentions that he had been "practically raised" by his uncle Alberto (who was seen during a family visit to Cuba), and that he had attended Havana University.
I Love Lucy - Season One
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). When the original series ended, the show continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
I Love Lucy - Season Two
Year: 1952
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
I Love Lucy was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld). I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.
I Love Lucy - Season Three
Year: 1953
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX
The show was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it ranked second on TV Guide's list of television's greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." I Love Lucy remains hugely popular today, as 60 years after its debut, it is still seen by 40 million Americans each year.
I Love Lucy - Season Four
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX
Originally set in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and her singer/bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz (William Frawley) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance). During the second season, Lucy and Ricky have a son named Ricky Ricardo Jr. ("Little Ricky"), whose birth was timed to coincide with Ball's real-life delivery of her son Desi Arnaz Jr. by Caesarean section.
I Love Lucy - Season Five
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Director: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Available Quality: DivX
Lucy is naive and ambitious, with an overactive imagination and a knack for getting herself into trouble. Known for her fiery red hair, (despite the fact the show aired in black-and-white), Lucy appears as a scatter-brained homemaker with the matchless ability to turn an ordinary household chore into a complete and unprecedented disaster. Yet, underneath the cover of her wild behavior and crazy antics, she honestly yearns for stardom. She longs to join her husband in show-business, despite his refusal to cooperate. When things go wrong, she tends to say "Eww". Fred and Ethel are former vaudevillians and this only strengthens her resolve to pr...
Baby Take a Bow
Year: 1934
Country: USA
Director: Harry Lachman
Starring: James Flavin, Ralf Harolde, Alan Dinehart, Claire Trevor, Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Ray Walker
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Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the...
Bright Eyes
Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical
Year: 1934
Country: USA
Director: David Butler
Starring: Charles Sellon, Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, George Irving, Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Walter Johnson
Available Quality: DVD
When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple her mother used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned.