Black Widow (1987)

Black Widow (1987)

[4] Debra Winger plays a federal investigator on the trail of a 'black widow,' a woman (Theresa Russell) who marries and murders one rich man after another, collecting inheritances as she goes. It's great to see Debra Winger in anything,…
Alucarda (1977)

Alucarda (1977)

[6] In this dream-like film from director Juan López Moctezuma, a teenaged girl named Justine goes to live at a convent after the death of her parents. Unfortunately, her nun roommate, Alucarda, turns out to be a satanic lesbian with…
Center of My World (2016)

Center of My World (2016)

[7] Jakob M. Erwa directs his own adaptation of Andreas Steinhöfel's novel about a 17-year-old who returns from summer camp to find his hedonistic mother and twin sister have become uncomfortably distant. At the same time, he enters into his first…
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

[5] Sylvia Sidney (Madame Butterfly, Sabotage) plays a rich girl smitten with a drunkard. Fredric March co-stars as her somewhat charming but sobriety-challenged lover, effectively doing a dry-run for the type of role for which he'd receive an Oscar nomination…
Double Indemnity (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)

[8] Chameleon master craftsman Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend) staked a name for himself and elevated low-budget film noir to new levels of respectability with his Hitchcockian suspense yarn Double Indemnity. The film, co-written by Wilder and Raymond…
American Gigolo (1980)

American Gigolo (1980)

[4] Ten years before he picked up Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, Richard Gere played a ho himself in American Gigolo. As a male 'chauffeur', Gere's plenty pretty to look at, aided by an array of Armani suits and moody…
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

[8] Indie maverick John Cassavetes examines a family under the stress of mental illness in A Woman Under the Influence. Cassavetes regulars Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (his real-life wife) star as the parents of three children whose family is…
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)

[7] Two years after his wife Gillian (Michelle Pfeiffer) died in a boating accident, David (Peter Gallagher) keeps her alive in his imagination through nightly frolics and conversations on the beach at night. As family and friends come together to…
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

[8] Jimmy Stewart gives a career-defining performance in this Frank Capra classic about a celebrated boy scout leader (Stewart) who gets chosen to fill a deceased senator's seat in the U.S. congress. His party assumes Stewart will be a doting…
The Opposite of Sex (1997)

The Opposite of Sex (1997)

[7] Christina Ricci definitively sheds her child-star persona in The Opposite of Sex, playing a snarky teen who runs away from mother and crashes with her older gay half-brother (Martin Donovan). After she seduces his naïve young lover (Ivan Sergei)…