The Skin Game

Feb 26, 1931

1h 22m

★ 5.4

Ancestral pride v. Industrial progress

Overview

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

British International Pictures

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Cast

Mr. Hillcrist

C. V. France

Mrs. Hillcrist

Helen Haye

Jill Hillcrist

Jill Esmond

Mr. Hornblower

Edmund Gwenn

Charles Hornblower

John Longden

Chloe Hornblower

Phyllis Konstam

Rolf Hornblower

Frank Lawton

Dawker

Edward Chapman

Mrs. Jackman

Dora Gregory

Second Stranger

George Bancroft

First Stranger

R.E. Jeffrey

Mr. Jackman

Herbert Ross

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

5.1

Trauma

Sep 17, 2004

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

3.5

Four Dogs Playing Poker

Jun 6, 2000

With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.

6.7

Man on the Train

Oct 2, 2002

A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

6.3

Cash Truck

Apr 14, 2004

Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm. It is in this difficult context that a man, Alexandre Demarre, one morning presents himself to start his first day of work at Vigilante.

7.0

Chase a Crooked Shadow

Jan 16, 1958

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

4.5

The Omega Code

Oct 15, 1999

An ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of apocalypse.

6.3

The Premature Burial

Mar 7, 1962

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

6.2

The Laughing Policeman

Dec 20, 1973

When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.

3.4

iMurders

Aug 9, 2008

A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.

4.3

Doubts

Jun 12, 1964

A fickle and unfaithful husband, Antonis, tries to drive his rich wife crazy so that he can get his hands on her fortune, with the chauffeur and his lover as accomplices. In order to succeed, he fakes his own death, but fate, as usual, plays its own game. A game in which an old friend of his wife is also involved, a reporter on the police beat, Bekas, who is trying to solve a mystery in which strange phenomena come one right after the other, and doubts never seem to end.

6.7

House by the River

Mar 23, 1950

Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.

5.9

Sirocco

Jun 13, 1951

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

4.8

Rancid

Dec 13, 2004

Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder.

4.7

Acceptable Risk

Mar 1, 2001

An ambitious medical researcher discovers a mold that he believes could be the foundation of a miracle cure for degenerative disease.

3.8

Original Sins

Apr 12, 1995

On Jonathan Frayne's radio talk show, the guilty call in to reveal their darkest sins. But when one mysterious caller confesses to murder, Jonathan is inextricably drawn into the case--and soon finds himself a pawn in the psychopath's menacing game.

5.9

Homecoming

Jul 17, 2009

A jilted ex-girlfriend plots revenge after her former beau comes back to their hometown with a new lover.

6.3

Homicide

May 28, 1991

While investigating the ruthless murder of an elderly woman, a Jewish police detective unravels a bizarre conspiracy involving a Zionist organization.

6.8

The Prowler

May 25, 1951

Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.

6.6

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Mar 11, 1952

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.