Ben Maddow

A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. (imdb)

Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends a famous player himself who's at death's door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a satanist, who arranges to have thier souls switch places at his death, so that he can be young again and continue to play piano (thus needing a skilled piano player like Alda to switch bodies with). (imdb)

Odd Western about racial intolerance focuses around Kiowa claim that the Zachary daughter is one of their own, stolen in a raid. The dispute results in other whites' turning their backs on the Zacharys when the truth is revealed by Mother... (imdb)

Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes that he is the town's new leader.(imdb)

This beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans' civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. (criterion.com)

A prim American schoolteacher succumbs to the looser moral values of her new home in New Zealand and soon finds herself torn between two lovers. (Guardian Unlimited)

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US (imdb)

Circumstance throws together Lieutenant Benson and his platoon with Sergeant Montana and the shell-shocked colonel in his keep during the Korean War. The group must make it fifteen miles through enemy territory in hopes of finding friendly ground on Hill 465.

Mike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes. (imdb)

Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment. (imdb)

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. (imdb)

An American scientist (Gregory Peck) is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button! (imdb)

Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution. (imdb)

In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows Judith - a newly divorced woman looking for a fresh start - through the streets of Los Angeles as she encounters the strange denizens of the city, ranging from trendsetters to religious fanatics. All the tawdry and desperate faces of this world become a mirror for Judith's personal failures and struggles to claim her new life. (imdb)

Burt served in the Marines during the war, but now he is confined to an asylum. His experiences in the South Pacific left him mentally ill and deathly afraid of storm clouds and rain. Stella, his girl friend, hopes Burt's sister Betty, and his brother-in-law Lou, will take him in so as to help him recuperate. However because of their young children, Betty and Lou are afraid of inviting him to live with them. Can Burt be helped? How can he find a life outside the mental hospital? (imdb)

This episodic drama is set in New York and chronicles the sexual lives and difficulties of three people as they describe their romantic woes. One is an aging fashion model who clings to her young lover because she knows that she will never have another. Two others are married, unhappy, and totally neurotic. (allmovie.com)

Documentary on a labor education center founded in 1932 in a beaten-down Tennessee mining and lumber region. Highlander Folk School is shown off as a cultural center and a resource for training organizers. After a harsh struggle that endured the union leader's murder, the workers' triumph is shown as proof that labor education is a vital tool for empowering populations and winning better lives.

A documentary about the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin. (imdb)

Documentary detailing the 1939 strike by the Tool and Die Makers union against General Motors.