Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement" realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama[1] film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property to build an oil refinery. The musical score was composed by Mark Knopfler. The film premiered on 17 February 1983. It received critical acclaim, and holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[5] At the 37th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated for seven BAFTA Awards and won Best Direction for Forsyth. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the film as one of the Top 100 British films of the 20th century.

New Plaza Cinema celebrates the 50th anniversary of Taxi Driver with a special evening featuring filmmaker and author Steven C. Smith. "You talking’ to me?" One of the most influential films of the last half-century, director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader's TAXI DRIVER shocked audiences in 1976, with its prescient depiction of an alienated New York cabbie (Robert De Niro), whose obsession with social decay, and frustrated romantic desires, turn him into a human time bomb. Join New Plaza Cinema as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this landmark drama. Award-winning filmmaker Steven C. Smith will present a guided tour of TAXI DRIVER’s creation, giving special attention to its Oscar-nominated score by Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo). Smith will share highlights from his interviews with Scorsese and others, as they recall the score’s final recording session on what would be the last day of Herrmann’s life. Smith also will be signing copies of his acclaimed new book, Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema. Steven C. Smith is a four-time Emmy-nominated documentary producer and award-winning author. His over 200 documentaries include collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Stephen Sondheim, John Williams, Julie Andrews and Sidney Poitier. His biographies of composers Bernard Herrmann and Max Steiner each received the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Award. His latest book is Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema (Oxford), which has received rave reviews in the Wall Street Journal, London Times, Variety, and BBC Music Magazine among others.

The Breaking Point is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by Michael Curtiz. It is the second film adaptation of the 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not,[3] the first one having featured Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film stars Patricia Neal and John Garfield in his penultimate film role.

Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, "The Red Stockings", and their search for equality.

THE LONG WAY HOME is Michael Apted’s revealing, rollicking portrait of Soviet underground rock legend Boris Grebenshchikov, during his 1988 odyssey to the West to record an album and bring it back home in the early, optimistic days of Glasnost. In addition to Grebenshchikov the film features his legendary Russian band Aquarium, and Dave Stewart, with special appearances by Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, Ray Cooper, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Remastered in 4K and available for the first time in over 30 years, it is followed by an epilogue co-directed by Steven Lawrence and Susanne Rostock (the film’s producer and editor) that brings Boris’s journey up to date, including his exile from Russia for speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine.

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.