Pauline Kael: 5001 Nights at the Movies

In Sicily, a leftist professor seeks to uncover the truth about two men killed during a hunting party, but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic Church.

In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

A wealthy businessman in New York absconds to Mexico by train in order to avoid capture for embezzlement. On the way, he steals the identity of another man for a visa, but that only complicates matters.

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.

During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire and five people are killed and five injured.

The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he had assumed.

Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.

Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.

A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated.

In December 1926, mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie's husband Colonel Archie Christie asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing for eleven days. US reporter Wally Stanton searches for her in this speculative story.

Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Alexander Main, a bail bondsman, falls for one of his "customers", a pretty gypsy girl, Maritza, who's been accused of murder.

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Unrepentant ladies' man Alfie Elkins gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle in 1960s London.

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.