Flirting (1991)

Flirting (1991)

[8] Writer/director John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Lawn Dogs) takes an earnest and engaging stab at the 'boy meets girl and falls in love' narrative with Flirting. Noah Taylor stars as an ostracized Australian boarding school student in…
The Boys Next Door (1985)

The Boys Next Door (1985)

[7] Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield (Grease 2) star as high school graduates who take a weekend car trip to L.A. where they start a killing spree. Sheen's character slowly begins to wrestle with his lingering empathy, while Caulfield's grows…
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

[7] A doctor visits a woman in an insane asylum to determine if she requires a lobotomy to forget the horror of seeing her cousin murdered, or if her aunt is pushing for the procedure to cover the truth. Tennessee…
The Deep End (2001)

The Deep End (2001)

[5] Tilda Swinton stars as a mother trying to cover-up the accidental death of her son's aggressive gay lover. But things get even more complicated when a strong-arm (Goran Visnjik) tries to extort the dead man's debts from her. Tilda…
Mermaids (1990)

Mermaids (1990)

[6] Winona Ryder and Cher give us their take on the classic mother/daughter divide in this adaptation of a novel by Patty Dann, directed by Richard Benjamin (The Money Pit, Little Nikita). Ryder's character is of high school age and…
American Madness (1932)

American Madness (1932)

[7] In this early Frank Capra flick, romance blossoms and seeds of betrayal are sown during two days at a bank where a robbery leads to a public panic that threatens the bank's existence. Walter Huston plays the bank's owner,…
Outbreak (1995)

Outbreak (1995)

[6] Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo star as an estranged married couple both working government jobs in the area of infectious disease control. When a fast-acting deadly virus begins spreading in America, the two find themselves working together to control…
Staying Alive (1983)

Staying Alive (1983)

[3] John Travolta returns under the curious direction of Sylvester Stallone for this sequel to the mega-hit Saturday Night Fever. But whereas Saturday Night Fever was a sincere story about a young man with big dreams and lessons to learn,…
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

[7] Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty star in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams's novel about an aging starlet (Leigh) who becomes a widow while vacationing in Italy. She reluctantly agrees to let a scheming contessa (Lotte Lenya) set her up…
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

[6] You only get to see his face in the film's final moments, but Vincent Price otherwise stars as this sequel's titular character. The film has loose narrative ties to James Whale's 1933 classic, and is as much a remake…