Rudolph Maté
1) D.O.A
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a California businessman shows up at the San Francisco police station to report a murder, the police captain asks him who was murdered. His reply: 'I was.' So begins the tale of a man who is poisoned at a dark jazz club and, with only hours left to live, is determined to find out who poisoned him and why.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Returning to the city from her wealthy employer's residence, Joyce Willecombe spots two armed men on the train. She reports them to the conductor who radios the station's police. Once at Union Station, she points out the men to Lt. William Calhoun, who discovers that the gunmen are members of a gang who have kidnapped her employer's blind daughter, and are seeking a ransom. The Chicago police, headed by inspector Donnelly, and the FBI are both called...
3) Sahara
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An explosive war story about an American ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.
4) D.O.A
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Frank Bigelow, a real-estate salesman, is given a slow-acting, lethal poison. In the few hours left to him, he frantically seeks to learn who is responsible and why he was poisoned.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A secretary accepts an impulsive marriage proposal from an army private just before he is dispatched overseas to fight in World War II. When she receives news of his death, her suffering becomes unbearable-- until a miracle occurs.
10) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Deutsch
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror....
11) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young traveler finds a remote castle, and starts seeing mysterious things, only to find that his own nightmares are coming true.
13) Gilda
Series
Criterion collection volume 795
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A deceitful woman plays with the lives of her husband, his crime lord boss, and his right-hand man.
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Road to Lourdes: A spoiled American learns the beauty of faith while in Spain. Three, and two please (Sister Ann's Christmas): Sister Ann tries to make Christmas merry for a grumpy man and small boy. Sister Ann: Sister Ann decides to donate her small fortune to the Mercy Hospital. Faith, hope and Mr. Flaherty: A donation invested bring big profits but also trouble.
15) Love affair
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Michel Marnet and Terry McKay meet on a ship on which he is sailing to marry a rich heiress. When they fall in love, they agree to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building if they are both still free. On the way to their rendezvous, Terry meets with a crippling accident leaving Michel to wait in vain. Fate will eventually bring the two of them back together.
16) Doa
Publisher
MysteryMovies.tv
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a night on the town, small-town accountant Frank Bigelow wakes up to find he's been given a poison with no antidote, and has a week to live! With that, he embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own killer.
17) The violent men
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A large sprawling western drama about a ruthless land baron who loses his grip on things due to violent forces opposing him.
Publisher
Critic's Choice
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The hitch-hiker: While on their way to a fishing trip, two men pick up a hitchhiker -- not knowing that he is a sadistic and psychopathic killer.
Detour: After he is picked up while hitchhiking, Al Roberts' samaritan dies of a heart attack. Afraid of being accused of the murder, he ditches the body, then takes the man's clothes, wallet, and car.
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend, the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
English
Description
"In The black shield of Falworth, Tony Curtis woos his real-life bride Janet Leigh, while defending the British throne in a swashbucking tale filled with joust, jests and medieval heroics. The time is England in the reign of King Henry IV. Miles (Curtis) is a headstrong, handsome peasant determined to learn the name of his slain father and discover his true heritage. His fiery ambition and swift sword lead him to the majestic MacWorth Castle. There...