An insurance investigator looks into the death of a man who drove his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. After looking into the incident, the investigator begins to suspect it may not have been suicide after all.
Tag: 1950s
In this film, an Italian girl enjoys a brief wartime romance with an American paratrooper — but she is already the property of a suave millionaire. She forsakes her wanton kept-woman status for her new lover, only to lose her newfound love to enemy bullets.
Based on Matsumoto Seicho’s classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers on a senior detective who is determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
A psychologist pioneers a research study at a prison. He seeks the help of six savvy inmates including a safe-cracker, a mobster, a pair of armed robber and psychopath. Could he trust them? What’s in it for them?
The crusade of a housewife against local council guilty of corruption in connection with a local housing estate.
Antoinette is an attractive young woman who is adjusting her stockings one day when a passing news photographer named Corrado snaps her picture. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it. He then tries to convince her that he can connect her up with powerful men and introduces her to Count Gregorio Sennetti, who can make her a movie star, but things do not turn out well when the count’s wife shows up.
A sophisticated tramp lives during summer in a half-finished construction site. Because he doesn’t want to be cold in the winter, he decides to get imprisoned on time. Therefore, he demolishes a bar but he is only incarcerated for a single week. He promises he will find a way to come back.
Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who’s blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he’s infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life as a magician’s assistant. Robert’s mother bemoans some of the Bonnard family male role models available to Robert: his party animal grandfather, roguish traveling salesman uncle Desmond, and an uncle who carries a water cooler filled with wine everywhere while his wife does all the work. As Desmond’s temporarily off the road, he also targets the maid.