The Gondoliers

A group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the same vacations plans as them.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Joachim Hasler

Cast

Chris Doerk, Frank Schöbel, Regine Albrecht

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Ondi Timoner

Cast

Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Otto Preminger

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.

Deliveryman Deke Rivers is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote him to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Hal Kanter

Cast

Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Luther Reed

Cast

Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler