J. Lee Thompson - Kkiste

Return from the Ashes

A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.

NR

7.2

1965 Drama 105 min Spielen

7.2

What a Way to Go!

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

NR

7.2

1964 Comedy 111 min Spielen

6.2

Kings of the Sun

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

NR

6.2

1963 Adventure 108 min Spielen

6.6

Taras Bulba

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

NR

6.6

1962 Adventure 119 min Spielen

7.5

Ein Köder für die Bestie

Psychothriller aus dem Jahr 1962, der auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von John D. MacDonald basiert. Der Psychopath Max Cady kommt frisch aus dem Knast und hat nur eines im Sinn: Rache an seinem Anwalt Sam Bowden, dem er seine langjährige Strafe anlastet. Cady terrorisiert die Familie des Anwalts. 1991 filmte Martin Scorsese ein erfolgreiches Remake.

NR

7.5

1962 Drama 101 min Spielen

7.4

The Guns of Navarone

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

NR

7.4

1961 Action 158 min Spielen

6.1

No Trees in the Street

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from ...

NR

6.1

1959 Crime 96 min Spielen

7.4

Tiger Bay

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.

NR

7.4

1959 Drama 105 min Spielen

6.9

Brennendes Indien

Der Film spielt 1905 in Indien. Muslimische Rebellen verschanzen sich in den Bergen, um einen Angriff auf den Palast eines Maharajas durchzuführen. Der Angriff gilt dem sechsjährigen Sohn und zukünftigen Herrscher der Region. Kurz bevor der Angriff jedoch stattfinden kann flieht der britische Captain Scott mit dem Kind und dessen amerikanischer Gouvernante Catherine Wyatt. Die Drei sind allerdings nicht die einzigen Flüchtlinge, die vor den Rebellen fliehen. Im von Menschen überfüllten ...

NR

6.9

1959 Abenteuer 129 min Spielen

7.3

Ice Cold in Alex

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

PG

7.3

1958 Adventure 125 min Spielen

7.4

Woman in a Dressing Gown

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

NR

7.4

1957 Drama 93 min Spielen

7.3

Yield to the Night

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

NR

7.3

1956 Drama 99 min Spielen

10

As Long as They’re Happy

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the ...

NR

10

1955 Comedy 91 min Spielen

5.7

For Better, for Worse

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

NR

5.7

1954 Comedy 85 min Spielen

5.6

Murder Without Crime

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

NR

5.6

1950 Crime 78 min Spielen