Kansas City Confidential

Actors: Neville Brand, Don Orlando, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Howard Negley, Carleton Young

Directors: Phil Karlson

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Year: 1952

A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.

Hell's Half Acre

Actors: Jesse White, Keye Luke, Elsa Lanchester, Nancy Gates, Wendell Corey, Marie Windsor, Evelyn Keyes

Directors: John H. Auer

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1954

A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she sees him, when he hears that his current girlfriend has been murdered. The wife searches the slum area of Honolulu known as Hell's Half Acre for him, he searches for his girlfriend's killer, and his gangland associates are looking for the two of them.

Champion

Actors: Unknown

Directors: Mark Robson

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1949

Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public...and a heel in private.

The Trap

Actors: Earl Holliman, Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Peter Baldwin, Carl Benton Reid, Richard Shannon

Directors: Norman Panama

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1959

Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Darryl Hickman, James Flavin, Judith Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott

Directors: Lewis Milestone

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1946

In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil, now district attorney. At first, Sam is more interested in displaced blonde Toni Marachek than in his boyhood friends; but they draw him into a convoluted web of plotting and cross-purposes.

Sunset Blvd.

Actors: Hedda Hopper, H.B. Warner, William Holden, Larry J. Blake, Franklyn Farnum, Nancy Olson, Buster Keaton

Directors: Billy Wilder

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod

Year: 1950

The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.

Odd Man Out

Actors: James Mason, Cyril Cusack, Denis O'Dea, Robert Beatty, Dan O'Herlihy, William Hartnell, Robert Newton

Directors: Carol Reed

Country: UK

Available Quality: Hi Def

Year: 1947

Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to continue its activities. During the hold-up, things go sour: Johnny is wounded, cannot make it back to the hideout, and disappears in the back-alleys of Belfast. Immediately, a large-scale man-hunt is launched, and the city is tightly covered by the constabulary, whose chief is intent on capturing Johnny and the other members of the gang. Kathleen sets out in search of Johnny.

Laura

Actors: Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews

Directors: Otto Preminger

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Year: 1944

Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.

Ministry of Fear

Actors: Ray Milland, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford, Hillary Brooke, Dan Duryea, Carl Esmond, Marjorie Reynolds

Directors: Fritz Lang

Country: USA

Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def

Year: 1944

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to.

The Stranger

Actors: Orson Welles, Konstantin Shayne, Philip Merivale, Edward G. Robinson, Martha Wentworth, Richard Long, Loretta Young

Directors: Orson Welles

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Year: 1946

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in.

Killer's Kiss

Actors: Felice Orlandi, Phil Stevenson, Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana

Directors: Stanley Kubrick

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Year: 1955

Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello. He sends men out to kill Davy, but they instead kill his friend. Gloria is soon kidnapped by Raphello and his men, and it is up to Davy to save her.

Kiss Me Deadly

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Nick Dennis, Cloris Leachman, Jack Elam, Albert Dekker, Leigh Snowden, Paul Stewart

Directors: Robert Aldrich

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Year: 1955

Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike's policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story--meaning big money for him--because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage m...

High Sierra

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Elisabeth Risdon, Henry Hull, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Travers, Donald MacBride, Jerome Cowan

Directors: Raoul Walsh

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1941

Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery.

Shadow of a Doubt

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Henry Travers, Joseph Cotten, Wallace Ford, Janet Shaw, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1943

Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delight when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies club as well as the bank president where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice some odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local...

Road House (1948)

Actors: Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead, Grandon Rhodes, Ida Lupino, Ian MacDonald, Robert Karnes, Cornel Wilde

Directors: Jean Negulesco

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1948

Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's marriage proposal, they must face Jefty's murderous jealousy and his twisted plots to "punish" the two.

Dillinger

Actors: Marc Lawrence, Eduardo Ciannelli, Elisha Cook Jr., Lawrence Tierney, Ludwig Stössel, Constance Worth, Ralph Lewis

Directors: Max Nosseck

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1945

The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.

99 River Street

Actors: Ian Wolfe, Frank Faylen, Jack Lambert, John Daheim, John Payne, Jay Adler, Brad Dexter

Directors: Phil Karlson

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1953

Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. Involved with jewel thief Victor Rawlins, Pauline is murdered by him when she impedes his ability to fence the jewels. Blamed for his wife's murder, Ernie must track down Rawlins before he leaves the country.

When Strangers Marry

Actors: Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton, Lou Lubin, Claire Whitney, Virginia Sale

Directors: William Castle

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1944

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

The Window

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, Ruth Roman

Directors: Ted Tetzlaff

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1949

At the age of 9, Tommy Woodry has a reputation for telling tall tales -- the latest one being that his family is moving from Manhattan to a ranch out west. When the landlord interrupts the Woodrys at dinner to show their about to be vacated apartment, the Woodrys tell Tommy enough is enough. Then that hot summer night Tommy decides to sleep on the fire escape -- outside the Kellerson's apartment, since it is a story higher and gets more breeze. Tommy sees the Kellersons kill a man. Tommy's parents and the police won't believe his story. But the Kellersons want to silence him.

Moonrise

Actors: Harry Carey Jr., Harry Morgan, Lloyd Bridges, Phil Brown, Dane Clark, Allyn Joslyn, Irving Bacon

Directors: Frank Borzage

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1948

Danny Hawkins, who lives in a psychological shadow because his father died by a hangman's noose, accidentally kills a man in a fight over a girl, Gilly Johnson, and is afraid to notify the police. He wins the love of the girl but when she tries to influence him to admit his guilt, he runs away.