The Abandoned

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

Robert Rossen

Cast

Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's insurance.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Billy Wilder

Cast

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Peter Jackson

Cast

Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast

David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begin to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Mark Pellington

Cast

Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack