In The Lucky Texan, Jerry Mason (John Wayne) and Jake Benson (George "Gabby" Hayes) strike it rich when they become partners in a gold mine, but their good fortune is short-lived when claim jumpers Joe Cole (Yakima Canutt) and Harris (Lloyd Whitlock)...
An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot's horror classic is the story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress, the two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the poo...
This famous film was launched like a live spectacle by impresario Sol Hurok and was promoted as the first opera film in color. Sophia Loren stars as Aida with her singing dubbed by Renata Tebaldi. The film was a major production with top La Scala and...
Sixteen minutes or so into this adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize play, 1930 audiences got what they were waiting for when Greta Garbo made her entrance and spoke on camera for the first time in her career:" Gimme a whiskey?." Like Lon Ch...
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary peo...
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festval, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran-...
After 10 years apart, Fred Astaire and Ginger rogers reteam in their final film pairing, cleverly written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Directed by Charles Walters. The story, per many soures, mirrors real-life creative tensions the two share...
Whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing. Bantering in the boudoir, enjoying walks with beloved dog Asta or matching each other highball for highball and clue for clue, they combined screwball romance with myst...
New York, New York, it's a wonderful town - especially when sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sights - and when those sights include Ann Miller, Betty Garrett and Vera-Ellen.
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Previously seen in the U.S. in a severely truncated form, Fritz Lang's elaborate superspy thriller is at last restored to its proper length. Rudolf Kleine-Rogge stars as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the underc...
John Wayne is "Duke," a good-hearted rancher from Montana who comes to San Francisco to collect a debt owed to him by Tito (Joseph Schildkraut), slick owner of a casino. He falls in love with Flaxen (Ann Dvorak), the beautiful saloon singer engaged t...
A brilliant film noir classic based on Mickey Spillane's bestseller, Kiss Me Deadly is masterfully directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and hailed as one of his best (Leonard Maltin). This DVD edition of Kiss Me Deadly features the fully rest...
Sir Alec Guinness became an international star with his extraordinary performance as eight different characters in this 1949 Ealing Studios classic. Dennis Price (I'm All Right Jack, Private Progress) co-stars as Edwardian gentleman Louis Mazzini who...
Academy Award winner Cary Grant (Honorary Award, 1970) is at his suave best as alick showman Jerry Flynn, a Broadway producer anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a series of costly flops. Outside his theatre one night, Flynn m...
Jacques Becker lovingly evokes the belle epoque Parisian demimonde in this classic tale of doomed romance. When gangster’s moll Marie (Simone Signoret) falls for reformed criminal Manda (Serge Reggiani), their passion incites an underworld rivalry t...
Lovely Mary Stuart - queen of Scotland and France, but only sometimes ruler of her own heart - careens through a tumultuous life doomed to end with the flash of an executioner's blade. Men flatter her, then betray her. Her people embrace her, then vi...
Sparkling with juicy dialogue and a superb case (including Edmond O’Brien in an Oscar-winning performance), this landmark film is spectacular, ingeniously-fashioned, original entertainment. With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer...
The story of a U.S. naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, 1943-1945. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. Despite personal fricti...
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale (Groucho) is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers, Joseph and Rusty Panello (Chico and Harpo), in a train station, where they steal all his money. They'...
Agreeing to track down a friend's missing brother and niece, John and Marie Ball, the Duke heads north with the law in hot pursuit after his pal Noah Beery, Jr. (The Rockford Files) is framed for murder along the way. They learn that Ball and his par...
The notorious Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers, Pepe is sa...
Cattlemen are being terrorized and shot by a ruthless bunch of desperadoes led by the Shadow, using a tunnel under the main street - with a phony tree stump as an exit - to carry out their dastardly deeds. Wayne is the stranger who rides into town, r...
Music's greatest legends re-enact the birth of jazz in this song-filled tribute to the town where it all began: New Orleans.
Arturo De Cordova stars as Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for black musicians...
Directed by Richard Thorpe.Featuring Johnny Weismuller,Maureen O'Sullivan,Johnny Sheffield.Cheetah.A different jungle awaits in Tarzan's New York adventure.A circus owner smuggles boy out of the jungle and all the way to New York to perform in a show...
Wrongfully convicted of murder in Baltimore, John Brant (John Wayne) breaks out of prison and heads west in this 1933 follows up to Riders of Destiny, directed by Armand Schaefer (The Hurricane Express). On the run from the law, he is befriended by B...
A shot rings out, the captain falls, and with him dies the knowledge of his unit's mission. Now a stalwart sergeant takes charge as he and his men try to escape the surrounding, unseen snipers who felled their captain. They hole up at an oasis in a l...
John Wayne hits the vengeance trail after a gang of express office bandits in this 1935 film from Robert N. Bradbury, who directed most of his many Lone Star Westerns (Texas Terror, The Trail Beyond). John Mason (Wayne) befriends Ben McClure (Reed Ho...
That was the intent, anyway. Cesare Zavattini produced the film and brought together five directors to make short films about love. The results are all good, but none of them great. They all have problems. To add to this problem, the version that I s...
In this thrilling WWII adventure, a new commanding officer is sent to tighten the discipline of a group of Navy underwater demolition experts, a.k.a. frogmen. Replacing a popular officer whom the men idolized, the new commander at first wins few frie...
Back to Bataan is a flag-waving patriotic movie that was filmed and released as WWII was drawing to a close. The story is about the Filipino people and their fight for freedom from their Japanese oppressors. This is very obvious patriotism with the J...
In this offbeat Bogart crime comedy, a ragtag group of con-men set out from a small Mediterranean port on a boat bound for the African coast. The plot twists and turns as these devious characters attempt to swindle each other and acquire uranium-rich...
Hes earthy, she's erudite. He's lumpy, she's angular. He's Tracy, she's Hepbum Together, they're spectacular.
Spencer Tracy and katharine Hepburm show what chemistry is all about in this Academy Award winner about the grand, bumpy romance between ...
This unique love story, based on a novelette by Denis Diderot and with dialogue written by Jean Cocteau, follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex - lover and a prostitute. ...
Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station. Awed by her beauty, they meet again at the ball and quietly leave together. In her room, her husband, about w...
Tolstoy's tragic love chronicle is brought to the screen with Vivien Leigh playing a married Russian woman madly in love with a military officer. The story of this illicit romance is elaborately produced and splendidly acted with Vivien Leigh stealin...
Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate ...
Updated from Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut,this non-operatic version of the familiar tale stars Cecile Aubrey in the title role.Accused of collaborating with the Nazis during WW2,Manon Lescaut is rescued by Robert Desgrieux.Safely ensconced in Paris w...
In Leipzig Williaam gives the letters of his friend Werther to a publisher. Together they read about the fate of the young man. At a ball Werther meets the young Lotte. He becomes a constant guest in the family's house and a friend of the family. His...
Poetic, absurd, erotic, visionary and scandalous, L'Âge d'or can still "provoke, baffle and delight" (The New York Times) more than seventy years after its creation. "Contriving effronteries so offhanded you can't believe you've actually seen th...
In one of his best and final roles (he appeared in only four films after this), Clark Gable plays a submarine captain without a command, having been saddled with a desk job after his previous ship was destroyed due to his overzealous pursuit of the e...
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune - a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast - and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their p...
One of the most famous short films ever made, The Red Balloon is a childhood fantasy with appeal for viewers of every age. It is the story of Pascal, a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which follows him everywhere--to school and...
HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn ... and into movie lore as an American Film Institute Top-100 American Films selection. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total. Cha...
Ernest Hemingway's tragic wartime romance comes to vivid life in this classic 1932 film starring Oscar winners Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes and co-starring Adolphe Menjou.
The cataclysm of WWI sets the stage for an impassioned story of star-crosse...
For the first time ever you can enjoy this timeless classic in a Special Edition DVD. Fully restored to look and sound as it was originally intended, it also features hours of exclusive bonus materials your entire family will enjoy again and again.
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This true masterpiece of cinema, beautifully restored, was made in the silent days of Hollywood, but the lack of audible dialogue does not hold this back from being appreciated today. This multi-part story shows Intolerance in four different times in...
When a beautiful hard-boiled black-mailer is murdered in her swank apartment there are any number of men who might have done it. There's Martin Blair (Dan Duryea) the drunken husband she's dumped; there's shady nightclub owner Marko (Peter Lorre); an...
Set in 17th century Japan, two clans need firearms to win the war, so someone is sent to Spain to obtain five thousand muskets.
在十七世纪时,日本的幕府将军梅亚达航行到西斯牙买武器增强其东军武力。这并非是个顺利的航行,因为梅亚达被卷入西斯牙国王菲�...
Brigadier General Stanley M. Ulanoff, a widely decorated military historian who served with the Counterintelligence Corps in Europe during World War II, introduces these gripping documentary films. See the planning and execution of the most famous ba...
The movie that brought together Bogart and Bacall. Help the Free French? Not world-weary gun-runner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is...
The Phelps Department Store is about to be sold by its new part owner, Tommy Rogers with the permission of Martha Phelps, the dowager co-owner. The current manager doesn't want this as the irregularities in the books will show up. When an attempt is ...
Karen, a young woman from the baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio's village, Stromboli, threatened by the vulcano, is a tough one and Karen can not get used to it.
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Clutching her corsage of violets and in a dress she hopes no one will notice she wore to last year's dance, Alice Adams is ready for South Renford's biggest evening of the year-and to pose as something she longs to be: one of the town's social elite....
From the acclaimed director of The Taste Of Cherry (Winner Palm D'or at Cannes) comes Abbas Kiarostami's latest masterpiece THE WIND WILL CARRY US.
A filmmaker from Tehran travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local rit...
Johnny Case (Cary Grant), a free-thinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams ' Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire ' and she's agreed to marry him! But when Johnny plans a holiday for t...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers headline Swing Time, the romantic spirit-lifter buoyed by a sublime Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields score, nimble direction by Academy Award-winner George Stevens, and the leads' effortless (after 350 hours of rehearsing!) d...
Perhaps the best remembered of the 10 Astaire/Rogers musicals, Top Hat has it all: Art Deco elegance, a wonderfully addled storyline, loopy support from skilled farceurs and the incomparable chemistry of the two leads cheek-to-cheeking to Irving Berl...
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. The woman who would be one of the top stars in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after finishing her formal schooling. Back in the US, she appeared in three films...