Movies: Mala Powers

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an i...

In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and coo...

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work....

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military....

A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered....

A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can crea...

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues....

A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results......

A respected civic leader is caught between two rival underworld crime families on the verge of war....

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawy...

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman....

Director James B. Clark's western, set in 1848 California, is about a brother and sister battling a crooked businessman over property rights....

Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica....

A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster that feeds on the local inhabitants....

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers....

A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents....

Accused of killing a woman on a train, Sharon Carlin runs home to find another corpse there too!...

Period adventure tale about an expedition using a hot-air balloon to rescue an explorer lost in Africa....

There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida L...

Six people survive the crash of an airplane and find themselves in a mysterious Central American mansion and ghost town, where they encounter ghosts from their past. They are then judged for their sins by a demonic figure while the jury chants their ...