Drama
The Devil Bat
Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who commands a mutant bat to avenge himself upon his enemies (using a specially formulated after-shave lotion as the targeting device). Even as he takes diabolical pleasure in such a ludicrous premise, Lugosi invests the character with an underlying sense of tragedy,…
MOM AND DAD (FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EXPLOITATION PICTURE Volume 1)
In the 75 years since its initial release, Kroger Babb’s Mom and Dad has achieved mythical cinematic status. It was a film that, during the height of the Production Code, not only dared to address issues of venereal disease and unexpected pregnancy but presented graphic footage of bodies scarr…
She Should'a Said 'NO'!/Devil's Sleep (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 6)
“She Should’a Said ‘NO’!” stars Lila Leeds as a party girl recruited by a hard-boiled cop to take down the sinister dope-pusher responsible for the addiction and death of her brother. George Weiss loaded his gymnasium pill-mill thriller "Devil’s Sleep" with three …
Test Tube Babies/Guilty Parents (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Pictures, Vol. 7)
Cathy and George seem like the perfect postwar American couple, but a medical deficiency deprives them of the children that will complete their happy home.
Immensee/The Great Sacrifice
Immensee stars Kristina Söderbaum as Elisabeth, a woman in love with Reinhardt, a brillian
Monsieur Vincent
Monsieur Vincent is a compassionate and beautiful film about the remarkably selfless life of Saint Vincent de Paul, who devoted his life to caring for the poor and the sick, through poverty and plague.
Munchhausen
Starring hypnotic, blond superstar Hans Albers, this lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette.
Nicholas Nickleby
Based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel, Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of the eponymous young hero and his attempts to save his family and friends from the clutches of his greedy Uncle Ralph.
Paracelsus
A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst.
Port of Freedom
Under the direction of Helmut Käutner (Black Gravel), German heartthrob Hans Albers stars as Hannes, a former sailor who now works as an entertainer, playing his accordion in the streets and cabarets of the garish red light district of Hamburg.
The Southerner
After achieving worldwide acclaim for such films as La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game, French filmmaker Jean Renoir wrote and directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perrys novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand. The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer (Zachary Scott) trying t…
The Stranger
In the Academy Award-nominated THE STRANGER, legendary director Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics. Edward G. Robinson stars as a government agent …