Friday, Dec. 30 - Dentist in the Chair

Dentist in the Chair (1960)

When a thief doing what he promises to be his last job accidentally burglarises a Dentistry Suppliers instead of the "Silver Shop" next door he decides to flog the suitcase full of tools to a couple of dental students. Some very uncomplicated complications ensue before the thief confesses all to the police.

Thursday, Dec. 29 - I Am Waiting

Ore wa matteru ze (1957)

On a dark night, Jôji (Yujiro ishihara) a former boxer, saves Saeko (Mie Kitahara), a beautiful, suicidal hostess. They live and work together at a restaurant where they begin to fall in love, struggling to escape from their dark pasts. Jôji deals with his failure as a boxer, shamed of having been barred from the ring. Saeko hopes to hide from gangsters who have forced her to work at their cabaret.[5]

They both find their source of support in their sole dreams: he wishes to Brazil to join his brother on a ranch, and she dreams of finding love. Pushed by gangsters, they learn that dreams are easily crushed.

Wednesday, Dec. 28 - The House on Skull Mountain

The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

Four cousins who have never met are invited by their Great-Grandmother Christophe to visit her mansion outside of Atlanta. When they arrive, they learn she has just died. They stay to hear the reading of her will and soon are being killed off one-by-one with voodoo magic. The survivors try to find the killer before he finishes them all off.

Tuesday, Dec. 27 - 90 Degrees in the Shade

90 Degrees in the Shade (1965)

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.

Monday, Dec. 26 - A Taste of Excitement

A Taste of Excitement (1970)

This is a complex but very stylish murder-mystery, beautifully set in South France and starring the talented Eva Renzi as the unknowing key person of a political conspiracy. Upon her arrival in France, where she intends to spend a summer vacation, Jane Kerell is the target of attacks and strange events. She becomes involved with a local painter and together they discover that Jane, against her knowledge, carries around important evidence of an international crime network. Scotland Yard is looking for this evidence, but so are the gangsters, and Jane's life is in great danger.

Sunday, Dec. 25 - Double Feature!: It Can Be Done Amigo

Si può fare... amigo (1972)

An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

Sunday, Dec. 25 - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)

After the suicide of the small time drug dealer and thief Davey, his brother and former powerful gangster Will Graham, who is living a peaceful recluse life trying to redeem himself from his past, returns to his homeland to investigate the motives for such desperate act. Will hires an independent autopsy and the coroner informs that Davey had been raped the night before his death. Will returns to his past life seeking for revenge.

Saturday, Dec. 24 - Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

Friday, Dec. 23 - Black Sun

Black Sun (1964)
Kuroi taiyô (original title)

Freewheeling Akira crosses paths with fugitive African American soldier Gil. Akira feels an affinity with Gil because of his love for jazz and black culture, but... An atypical work depicting an unorthodox friendship and the loneliness of youth. Also features the superb drumming of Max Roach, specially performed for this film.

Thursday, Dec. 22 - Motor Patrol

Motor Patrol (1950)

A story of the motorcycle cops of the traffic-division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Ken Foster, a trainee, is engaged to the sister, Jean Collins, of motorcycle policeman Larry Collins, who is taking part in the investigation of a hit-and-run killing the police believe was a deliberate murder. Sighting a stolen car used in the killing, Larry pursues it and is killed by the driver. Ken is taken from the training academy and given the assignment of impersonating a known auto-thief, now in police custody, in the hopes he will be accepted by the hot-car ring working the city. He gets close before his identity is discovered and he is confronted at gunpoint by the gang-leader.

Wednesday, Dec. 21 - Fashions of 1934

Fashions of 1934 (1934)

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash (William Powell) goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap (Frank McHugh) and fashion designer Lynn Mason (Bette Davis) to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses. Lynn discovers that top designer Oscar Baroque (Reginald Owen) gets his inspiration from old costume books, and she begins to create designs the same way, signing each one with the name of an established designer.

Tuesday, Dec. 20 - Our Girl Friday

The Adventures of Sadie (1953)
Our Girl Friday (original title)

Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances.

Monday, Dec. 19 - Hysteria

Hysteria (1965)

An American (Robert Webber) wakes up in a British hospital after a car-accident. He suffers from a bad case of amnesia and he has to start digging into his own past and personality. The only thing he was carrying at the time of the accident was a picture of a stunningly beautiful, mysterious girl! Also, someone is paying for his hospital bills and has arranged an apartment for him but he has no idea who that is.

Sunday, Dec. 18 - Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore (1976)

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and thrive on living dangerously.

Saturday, Dec. 17 - Double Feature!: Two Undercover Angels

Sadist Erotica (1969)
Rote Lippen, Sadisterotica (original title)

Two beautiful detectives Diana ('Succubus' star Janine Reynaud) and Regina (Rosanna Yanni) operate under the pseudonym "Red Lips", with a lipstick kiss as their trade mark. While investigating the disappearance of a woman they stumble across a series of abductions/possible murders, which appear to be linked to the mysterious eye-patch wearing artist Klaus Tiller, and his hirsute, werewolf-like assistant Morpho. (Adrian Hoven and Michel Lemoine, both also from 'Succubus'). The pair attempt to earn their clients' fee, catch the baddies, and simultaneously evade capture themselves by the police.

Saturday, Dec. 17 - The Cool World

The Cool World (1964)

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest, to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one.

Friday, Dec. 16 - Tales of the Unexpected: Fat Chance & Taste

Season 2, Episode 6: Fat Chance
Original Air Date—5 April 1980

Mary Burge's figure has ballooned over the years since she first married her pharmacist husband John because she is a great comfort eater. John is tired of her and turns to legal secretary Frances, who becomes his mistress. Mary, however, will not divorce him and Frances is issuing an ultimatum. He decides to put his pharmaceutical skills into play and poison his wife's chocolates. However, not everything will go to plan.

Season 2, Episode 7: Taste
Original Air Date—12 April 1980

Richard Pratt, a pretentious wine expert, is one of several dinner party guests at the home of stockbroker Mike Schofield. Pratt claims to be able to identify any wine from its bouquet but Schofield has picked a really rare wine that he is so convinced Pratt will fail to recognize that he includes his house and his daughter in the wager to everyone else's horror... particularly when Pratt guesses it right. Fortunately for the rest of the family the dutiful housekeeper has discovered Mr. Pratt's glasses in a room where they should not be.

Thursday, Dec. 15 - Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist's assistant in order to get hold of poison to do away with her boozy husband.

Wednesday, Dec. 14 - Tales of the Unexpected: The Hitch-Hiker

Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series 1979–1988)

Season 2, Episode 4: The Hitch-Hiker
Original Air Date—22 March 1980

Flash American Paul Duveen stops to give elderly Irish vagrant Michael Fish a lift in his new BMW. Michael is a pickpocket, which comes in very handy after his encouragement to Paul to break the speed limit has attracted the attention of a traffic cop on a motor-bike, who waves them over. After the cop has gone Michael shows a happy Paul that he stole the cop's notebook and evidence but before long Paul will be anything but happy.

Tuesday, Dec. 13 - Intimidation

Aru kyouhaku (1960)

Nobuo Kaneko is a bank manager who has embezzled a bunch of money from his bank. Kojiro Kusanagi plays a blackmailer who has discovered this. He attempts to make Kaneko rob his own bank.

Monday, Dec. 12 - Radar Secret Service

Radar Secret Service (1950)

A hijacked convoy carrying uranium (without shielding) is stolen from under the Radar Secret Service's nose by the Mob, but still has to be shipped up river to some vaguely evil bad guys. However, the Radar Secret Service is on the trail, using their all-knowing, all-seeing electronic marvel to find the uranium and follow them. It's a battle of wits and double-crossing to get the bad guys.

Sunday, Dec. 11 - The Mephisto Waltz

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

This offbeat occult thriller stars Alan Alda as journalist and burgeoning musician Myles Clarkson, whose long-sought interview with ailing concert pianist (and closet Satanist) Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens) leads to a mysterious ritual in which Ely's soul is transferred into Clarkson's body at the moment of the elder man's death.

Saturday, Dec. 10 - Tales of the Unexpected: Poison

Tales of the Unexpected: Poison

Season 2, Episode 5: Poison
Original Air Date—29 March 1980
Harry, a young teacher working in India but about to return home is petrified when a poisonous snake creeps into his bed and sits on his belly. His friend Timber happens by and they call a local doctor. The snake is parted from Harry's body and the others leave but...

Friday, Dec. 9 - Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (1950)

Guided missile, charming secretary, dark rooms, a little talk and some good action sequences in this story of enemy agents tracked by David Harding.

Thursday, Dec. 8 - The Gazebo

The Gazebo (1959)

Elliott Nash is a befuddled television director feeling pressure from the job and a blackmailer who has nude photos of his wife Nell a Broadway star. Unable to meet the blackmailer's demands he lures him to his suburban home, murders him and buries him under the gazebo. Problem is the blackmailer had associates and Nash's perfect crime begins to unravel fast.

Wednesday, Dec. 7 - The Hi-Jackers

The Hi-Jackers (1963)

Terry is a self-employed lorry driver. He meets Shirley at a roadside cafe and later offers her a lift. On the way his truck with a valuable shipment of whiskey is hijacked on a quiet stretch of road. How did the hijackers know he was going on that route? Who tipped off the hijackers?

Tuesday, Dec. 6 - Smokescreen

Smokescreen (1966)

When a blazing car goes over the cliff to the east of Brighton an insurance investigator is sent to the coast to poke around. As the driver had recently taken out life insurance, suspicions mount when no body can be found. The wife who would benefit from the policy, the business partner who has financial troubles, and the guy who sold the policy and fancies the wife are all in the frame.

Monday, Dec. 5 - Devil's Angels

Devil's Angels (1967)

The Skulls, a violent biker gang led by Cody have a run in with a small-town sheriff after a member accidentally kills a citizen on the highway. He agrees to let them stay and protect the town. Cody then deserts them after a second gang's rescue attempt leaves the town in shreds. With Beverly Adams as Lynn and Mimsy Farmer as Marianne. A follow-up to the popular "The Wild Angels", the previous year

Sunday, Dec. 4 - The World Ten Times Over

The World Ten Times Over (1963)

Two girls, Ginnie and Billa, share a flat together and work as hostesses in the same night club. The film follows one crucial day in their lives. Ginnie agrees to go away with Bob, a wealthy young man who is infatuated with her and prepared to leave his wife for her. Billa is visited by her father, who is not prepared to accept the truth about the way she lives. After a disastrous night at the club, which is visited by both men, followed by Ginnie's attempt at suicide, each recognises her dependence on the other.

Saturday, Dec. 3 - The Boss (Il Boss)

Wipeout! (1973)
Il boss (original title)

Nick Lanzetta (Henry Silva) takes out several members of a rival crime family for his boss Don Corrasco (Richard Conte). The enemy clan attempts retribution by kidnapping an associate's daughter, who turns out to be a nymphomaniac. A violent power struggle within the Mafia ensures.

Friday, Dec. 2 - The Saint: The Covetous Headsman

Season 1, Episode 4: The Covetous Headsman
Original Air Date—25 October 1962

On a flight to Paris, the Saint meets Valerie North, who is on her way to meet her long-lost brother, only to find on arrival that he has been murdered, for a St. Christopher medal taken from around his neck. Valerie owns an identical medal, which she gives to the Saint. She is then kidnapped by Olivant, a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War, who recognizes that the two medals together are worth a fortune. The Saint has to discover why, as well as saving Valerie from Olivant's clutches.

Thursday, Dec. 1 - Cage of Evil

Cage of Evil (1960)

Disgruntled cop Ron Foster, passed over for promotion one time too many, is seduced by B-girl Patricia Blair into a diamond theft scheme. And then things go downhill!

Wednesday, Nov. 30 - Burn, Witch, Burn

Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
Night of the Eagle (original title)

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.

Tuesday, Nov. 29 - The House Across the Street

The House Across the Street (1949)

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time and, after several narrow escapes from death, finally solve it.

Monday, Nov. 28 - Four Boys and a Gun

Four Boys and a Gun (1957)

Four boys are involved in a robbery in which a policeman is killed. Caught, they are told they will most-definitely be convicted. Three will get life sentences and only one will be given the chair if they tell who pulled the trigger. Left to themselves, the boys must decide which will forfeit their life for the others.

Sunday, Nov. 27 - Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

Magazine editor Margot Merrick (Myrna Loy) pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

Saturday, Nov. 26 - The Secret Ways

The Secret Ways (1961)

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!

Thursday, Nov. 24 - Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance

Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance (1963)
Zoku shinobi no mono (original title)

Nobunaga Oda has decimated the ranks of the Iga ninja clan, but now his one mistake is about to come back to haunt him. Goemon Ishikawa is the last living Iga Ninja. After all the violence and bloodshed, all Goemon wants is to live with his wife and his child in peace. But Nobunaga's tyranny knows no bounds, and the evil warlord will not relent until he rules all of Japan.

Wednesday, Nov. 23 - The Nanny

The Nanny (1965)

Bette Davis is an English nanny whose charge is 10-year-old Joey, just released from a home for disturbed children where he'd spent two years undergoing treatment for drowning his little sister in the bath. Shortly after his arrival home, suspicion arouses again when his mother is poisoned. But Joey continues to insist Nanny is responsible, just as she was with the death of his little sister, with only a neighboring friend believing the young boy.

Tuesday, Nov. 22 - Get Yourself a College Girl

Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)

A college co-ed tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher whom tries to pursue her.

Monday, Nov. 21 - No Trace

No Trace (1950)

When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland Yard friend then invites him to help solve the case. To make matters worse, his loyal secretary also starts investigating, thinking she is helping.

Sunday, Nov. 20 - Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

An aging, reclusive southern belle, plagued by a horrifying family secret, descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Saturday, Nov. 19 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy. Through a series of relationships with three women and his lifelong friendship with a German officer, we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honor to modern notions of "total war."

Friday, Nov. 18 - Double Feature! - Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Chinese Jade

Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Chinese Jade (1963)
Nemuri Kyoshiro 1: Sappocho (original title)

Kyoshiro makes quick work of a group of ambushers, convincing their master Lord Maeda that this is a man that could be useful for his own purposes. Maeda sends his ward Chisa to seduce Kyoshiro in an attempt to convince him to attack a man who has evidence linking Maeda to an illegal smuggling ring. Blinded by love, Kyoshiro is eventually forced to face off against criminals and a Shorenji boxing master who’s obsessed with finding out if his technique can beat the Full Moon Cut.

Friday, Nov. 18 - Julie

Julie (1956)

Her new husband's behaviour convinces Julie Benton that his jealousy is dangerous, and when he admits he killed her first husband she realises she has to get away. A long-time friend helps all he can, but even in a town the size of San Fransisco Benton seems able to track them down. The police can do nothing despite a death threat, so the next move is up to Julie.

Thursday, Nov. 17 - Seven Keys

Seven Keys (1961)

Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.

Tuesday, Nov. 15 - Double Feature! The Velvet Vampire

The Velvet Vampire (1971)

Sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid, but pretty wife, Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is in reality a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.

Tuesday, Nov. 15 - The Gypsy

The Gypsy (1975)
Le gitan (original title)

Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who's searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious circumstance just after a major burglary. The Gypsy needs to settle a few scores and make one more heist before going to ground, and, by coincidence, his path takes him close to Yan, who's hiding in the hotel of a close friend and former lover, Ninie. The Gypsy lives by a code of honor, which puts him at risk on occasion; and he despises those who treat his people as worse than dogs. The police close in. Is there honor among thieves?

Sunday, Nov. 13 - The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net (1959)

John Hamilton leaves a comfortable New York job to take up as an artist in a quiet Connecticut town. His dipso wife hates the life and falsely makes him out to be selfish, unsuccessful, and, worst, someone who hits her. When she suddenly disappears suspicion falls on him and the townsfolk take the law into their own hands. Hamilton finds his only allies are the local children he has befriended.

Saturday, Nov. 12 - Casanova '70

Casanova '70 (1965)

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.