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Dog Eat Dog! (Einer frisst den anderen)

A small-time gangster boss and his crew extort a bank director. During a botched robbery of a money transport, one of the gangsters is killed, and the remaining gang members divide the loot. One member, intent on keeping all the money for himself, smuggles it into a villa and proceeds to kill three of his accomplices to frame them as the sole culprits. A fourth friend, also targeted for murder, survives and embarks on a quest for revenge. He locates the killer's hideout and demands his share of the money back. A violent shootout ensues, leaving the friend severely wounded, but he manages to take the money from the killer before making his escape.

The Big Red One

The film follows a battle-hardened Sergeant and his squad from the 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed "The Big Red One," as they fight their way across North Africa, Sicily, Omaha Beach, France, Belgium, and into Czechoslovakia during World War II. The narrative chronicles their harrowing experiences, close calls, and the profound impact of constant combat on the men, particularly four young soldiers who form the core of the squad, often contrasting their initial naiveté with the brutal realities of war. As they face various enemy encounters, witness atrocities, and suffer losses, the Sergeant instills in them a cynical but essential will to survive, emphasizing that the only thing that matters is making it to the next day. Their journey culminates with the liberation of a concentration camp, leaving them with the indelible scars of a war that has stripped them of their youth and innocence.

Bringing Out the Dead

"Bringing Out the Dead" follows Frank Pierce, a burned-out and emotionally exhausted paramedic working the graveyard shift in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen during the early 1990s. Haunted by visions of the people he couldn't save, particularly a young girl named Rose, Frank struggles with insomnia and a growing sense of despair. Over the course of three nights, he partners with a series of eccentric colleagues, each with their own coping mechanisms, as they respond to a series of harrowing and surreal emergency calls. As Frank navigates the chaos of the city and his own deteriorating mental state, he forms a connection with Mary Burke, the daughter of a patient in a coma, which offers him a glimmer of hope and redemption amidst the relentless cycle of life and death.

Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea, a disillusioned classical pianist who abandoned his privileged upbringing for a working-class life as an oil rig worker, lives with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette, in a trailer park. Upon learning that his estranged, ailing father is dying, Bobby reluctantly decides to visit him on an island in Puget Sound, bringing Rayette along despite his embarrassment by her. At the family home, a tension-filled reunion ensues with his intellectual siblings and father, as Bobby struggles to reconcile his past with his present and grapples with his deep-seated existential angst. After a series of volatile arguments and uncomfortable encounters, and realizing he cannot truly reconnect with his family or his former life, Bobby ultimately abandons Rayette at a gas station and hitchhikes north with a truck driver, leaving his entire life behind once more in search of an undefined escape.

The Running Man

In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their free... Read all Tags: Storyline: When Rob Cohen purchased the rights to the Richard Bachman novel "The Running Man", he had no idea that Bachman was actually a pseudonym for Stephen King.

Silent Movie

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years. Tags: Storyline: On the May 19, 1981, broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Alan Alda related his experience of attending the film's 1976 premiere in Westwood (which had Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in the audience). Alda said he probably laughed harder than anyone in the crowd, and once the movie had ended, he approached Brooks and Bancroft to compliment them on a job well done. According to Alda, Bancroft didn't miss a beat and responded, "Oh, that was you laughing? You see, Mel? I told you SOME idiot would find this funny!"

Of Mice and Men

A nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.