2024-09-27
Best Actress Jane Fonda stars as a call girl who aids a small-town detective on his search for a missing scientist in New York City. Realizing she is in danger after receiving threats from a john, the call girl reluctantly begins to fall for the sleuth despite her wish to remain unattached.
World War II heist actioner with Clint Eastwood sneaking a motley trio of fellow U.S. soldiers behind enemy lines to retrieve a fortune in Nazi gold bullion. Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland provide comic relief.
John Huston directed this documentary chronicling six months in the lives of a group of soldiers stationed in a remote Alaskan outpost during World War II.
Rory Calhoun as a soldier of fortune transporting a gold shipment. Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia. George Sherman directed.
An undercover agent travels to Mexico looking for the source of heroin being smuggled into the U.S. by the mafia.
In the midst of an anti-Cleric and anti-Catholic regime in the Mexican state of Tabasco, the last remaining priest flees persecution and seeks freedom in America, finding help along the way.
A story of a Mexican peasant boy and the bull he saves and makes his pet, until the original owner of the animal returns to claim the beast and ship it off to the bullring, where it is pitted against the country's top matador. The film won a Best Story Oscar for Robert Rich, who was actually blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.
Best Picture nominee is a treatise on greed and what "gold does to men's souls" when three miners, circa 1920s, set out to find the precious mineral in the mountains of Mexico. Oscars went to John Huston for Screenplay and Direction, and his father, Walter Huston, who won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as an old prospector.
An alcoholic defrocked clergyman leads a busload of Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast, stopping at a crumbling jungle hotel, where he finally confronts his own failures.
Malcolm Lowry's novel about a self-destructive diplomat in 1938 Mexico.
A CIA researcher finds seven of his colleagues murdered and goes on the run. Not knowing who to trust, he must outrun and outwit the people responsible.
Using the unfinished final manuscript of African-American writer James Baldwin, this searing documentary delves into the legacy of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, and explores their impact on what it means to be black in America.