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3,745. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

Nov 25, 2005 • Rated Not Rated

This film centers around an elegant elderly lady (Mrs Palfrey) who, after being recently widowed, moves from Scotland to London to be near to her 26 year old grandson, Desmond. When Desmond fails to return any of her several phone calls, or visit her at the resident hotel she is staying (The Claremont), fate brings her together with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer, after she has an accident outside his basement flat. (Cineville)

3,746. Shallow Grave

Feb 10, 1995 • Rated R

Three roommates believe they've found the perfect fourth person to share their home. But almost immediately after moving in they find him dead in his bedroom from a massive drug overdose. Even stranger, they find a suitcase full of money under his bed. They are faced with the moral dilemma of whether to call the police and turn in the cash or dispose of the body and keep the money for themselves. They decide to keep the money, but then find themselves consumed with violent paranoia toward each other. (MGM)

3,747. A Faithful Man

A couple's relationship becomes complicated when she leaves him for his best friend, and returns after he dies.

3,748. Sanctuary

May 19, 2023 • Rated R

Rebecca (Margaret Qualley), and her wealthy client, Hal (Christopher Abbott), engage in a high stakes role playing game for power and control. In the wake of inheriting his father’s hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with Rebecca. A battle of wills ensues over the course of one incredibly fraught night, with both Rebecca and Hal struggling to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.

3,749. The Ninth Day

May 27, 2005 • Rated Not Rated

The agonizing tale, based on a true story, of a young Catholic Priest who is incarcerated in the Dachau concentration camp.

3,750. Kubi

Set in the 16th century, as rival warlords battled to control Japan. Lord Oda Nobunaga, intent on controlling Japan, is waging war against several clans when one of his vassals, Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears. Nobunaga assembles his other vassals including Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi, and orders them to capture the fugitive Murashige, warning “I’ll choose whoever works hardest as my successor.” With various thoughts, schemes, and traps they carry out, they’re soon brought to a crossroads in a complicated situation. All roads lead to Honno-ji temple, where fate awaits them all. Which way will their heads roll…? [Cannes]

3,751. An Affair of Love

Aug 11, 2000 • Rated R

It began as a purely sexual arrangement between anonymous strangers. Now, some time after it has ended, a woman (Baye) and a man (Lopez) recall their unusual affair in separate interviews. (Fine Line Features)

3,752. The Flower of Evil

Oct 10, 2003 • Rated R

Set in the Bordeaux region of France, Flower of Evil tells the story of the Charpin-Vasseurs, one of the most well respected upper middle class families in the region. The family's picture perfect image is shattered when murder occurs. (Palm Pictures)

3,753. Open Range

Aug 15, 2003 • Rated R

Academy-Award winning director Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves") helms this traditional Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing. (Touchstone Pictures)

3,754. Blackboard Jungle

Mar 25, 1955 • Rated Approved

A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

3,755. Horror of Dracula

May 8, 1958 • Rated Approved

Jonathan Harker begets the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, forcing his colleague Dr. Van Helsing to destroy the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones.

3,756. The King of Staten Island

Jun 12, 2020 • Rated R

Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys—Oscar (Ricky Velez), Igor (Moises Arias) and Richie (Lou Wilson)—and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley). But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray (Bill Burr), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

3,757. As Tears Go By (1988)

Apr 19, 1996 • Rated Not Rated

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

3,758. The Ides of March

Oct 7, 2011 • Rated R

"The Ides of March" takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency. (Sony Pictures)

3,759. Shortcomings

Aug 4, 2023 • Rated R

Ben (Justin H. Min), a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko (Ally Maki), who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice (Sherry Cola), a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.

3,760. Guinevere

Sep 24, 1999 • Rated R

Harper Sloane (Polley), an affluent college graduate on her way to Harvard Law, meets a much older Bohemian photographer named Connie (Rea) at her sister's wedding. She moves in with Connie and mixes romance with her unorthodox education in the ways of photography.

3,761. Tesla

Aug 21, 2020 • Rated PG-13

Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention. [IFC Films]

3,762. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Sep 29, 2006 • Rated R

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is writer/director Dito Montiel's candid debut capturing his youth in the mid-1980s in the toughest neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. Exuding the rawness and authenticity of such classic urban dramas as "Kids," "Mean Streets," "Do the Right Thing" and "Saturday Night Fever," the film is based on Montiel's memoir of the same name. (First Look Pictures)

3,763. Poison

Apr 5, 1991 • Rated Unrated

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax. “Hero,” shot in mock TV-documentary style, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; “Horror,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama, is a gothic tale of a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague; while “Homo” explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates. [Zeitgeist Films]

3,764. Runaway Train

Jan 17, 1986 • Rated R

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

3,765. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sep 21, 2012 • Rated PG-13

The Perks of Being a Wallflower captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. (Summit Entertainment)

3,766. In the Aisles

Jun 14, 2019 • Rated Not Rated

When the reclusive Christian (Franz Rogowski) takes a job working the night shift at a big box store, his new manager, Bruno from the Beverage Department (Peter Kurth), teaches him the lay of the land and the delicacy it takes to operate a forklift. Christian becomes enamored by his charming but mysterious co-worker “Sweets Marion” (Sandra Hüller), with whom he begins to share flirtatious break room coffees and conversations. But Marion has secrets of her own and when she suddenly goes on sick leave, Christian is tempted to fall into habits of his dark past. [Music Box Films]

3,767. The Cincinnati Kid

Oct 15, 1965 • Rated TV-14

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

3,768. Lady Chatterley's Lover

Nov 23, 2022 • Rated R

Based on the classic D.H. Lawrence novel, a story well ahead of its time, we follow the life of Lady Chatterley (Emma Corrin), a woman born to a life of wealth and privilege, who soon finds herself married to a man that she eventually falls out of love with. Lady Chatterley engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper (Jack O'Connell) on their English estate, discovering more desire and intimacy than she thought possible. When she realizes that she has fallen heart and soul, she breaks all traditions of the day and seeks happiness with the man she loves.

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