A Kiss Before Dying
Newly Added
•
1h 34m
Directed by Gerd Oswald • 1956 • United States
Starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
He had looks, charm, and killer instinct! This Sirkian noir stars Robert Wagner as Bud Corliss, a handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he’d do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend (Joanne Woodward) gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It’s the perfect crime—until the dead girl’s sister (Virginia Leith) begins to unravel Bud’s deadly scheme.
Up Next in Newly Added
-
We Need New Names
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2015 • United Kingdom
Using the funeral of the filmmaker’s family matriarch as a jumping-off point, WE NEED NEW NAMES explores contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity, cultural memory, and the very concept of fiction.
-
Evolution of a Criminal
Directed by Darius Clark Monroe • 2014 • United States
Starring Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie FoumbiWhen he was sixteen years old, filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe, along with a group of high school friends, donned a skeleton mask, walked into a Texas Bank of America, and robbed it at gun...
-
Carita de cielo
Directed by José Díaz Morales • 1947 • Mexico
Starring Antonio Badú, María Elena Marqués, Ninón SevillaLaced with sly class commentary and blitzed with elements of noir and musical, this breezy crime comedy follows plucky heiress Lupe (María Elena Marqués) as she goes undercover first as a crim...
