Douglas Fairbanks spared no expense for what may be the most lavish fantasy movie ever made. Inspired by the flying-carpet effects of Fritz Lang's somber but spectacular Der Müde Tod, Fairbanks (ever the canny businessman) bought the American rights...
Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and l...
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. Sydney Greenstreet, Mary As...
Acclaimed as "Europe's first post-war masterpiece" (The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers), and winner of the Best Picture award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, Roberto Rossellini's Open City (Roma, Città Aperta) stars the incompara...
The story took place in 80 ages 19th century, A stagecoach with passengers went across Arracksan's plain. It went to Rotsbao, on the way, it experienced layer a lot of difficulty to cross, It finally got to destination, There were impressive looking ...
By the time you read this letter, I may be dead," reads aging bon vivant Louis Jourdan from a letter found in his tiny hotel room. With tousled hair and a tux tired from yet another night of meaningless flirtation, he's startled by these opening line...
This a review of the Laserlight DVD release of 'The Skin Game'. This is one of several early Hitchcock films that i'm sure would have been lost without trace had Hitchcock's name not appeared on the credits. In fact, Hitchcock probably wished it had ...
The great John Barrymore takes on the title characters in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a tormented doctor who ventures into the unknown only to find his dark side. Directed by John S. Robertson and co-starring Nita Naldi, Dr. Jekyll and M...
The story of a prince destined by the force of a ruthless father to marry a princess who can bail his Kindom out of its financial doldrums is infuriating. The princess that he does not love prompts the King to command his son to attend the University...
Tell bickering Budapest gift-shop workers Alfred and Klara that they love each other and they might call you crazy. No lovers can compare to the romantic, secret pen pals each knows only as Dear Friend. What Alfred and Klara don't know, or course, is...
Alfred Hitchcock’s exciting 1942 wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant’s fire-bombing by a Nazi agent. During the deadly explosion, Kane’s best friend is killed and he,...
The first of Alfred Hitchcock's World War II features, Foreign Correspondent was completed in 1940, as the European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Its titular hero, Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), is an American crime reporter d...
The Public Enemy showcases James Cagney's powerful 1931 breakthrough performance as Powers--but only because production chief Darryl F. Zanuck made a late casting change. When shooting began, Cagney has a secondary role but Zanuck quickly recognized ...
Bernadette Soubirous (Jones) is a sickly 140year-old girl who sees a vision of a "beautiful lady", and never suffers from her illness again. Moreover, a fountain suddenly materializes near her vision that seems to heal visitors who bathe in it.
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ohnny Depp plays Gilbert and Juliette Lewis is the girl who turns his life around in this flawless blend of comedy and drama that includes Leonardo DiCaprio's stunning, Oscar-nominated performance as Gilbert's mentally impaired younger brother. Newco...
Delmer Davies's Destination Tokyo is very enjoyable WWII submarine action drama about a covert naval operation to scope out information for the aerial bombing of a primary Japanese naval yard. Starring a very charming Cary Grant as the sympathetic co...
One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hoiled as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gobin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp, and Erich ...
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome-but married-Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Katharine Hepburn's sensitive portrayal of the lonely heroine and Jack Hildyard's glorious Te...
Staring:Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and an ace creative team conjure sheer screen magic, one of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films. Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and loves even more an alluri...
Academy Award® winner Humphrey Bogart (Best Actor, The African Queen, 1951) stars as Dixon Steele, a down-on-his-luck studio scribe who reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Stee...
The story concerns one widow, Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), a beautiful young woman who owns 52% of the small kingdom of Marshovia. Sonia lives a life consisting of black dresses, black shoes, black corsets and black veils...even a black dog. Sonia dec...
With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden wh...
The legendary Rita Hayworth sizzles with sensuality and magnetism as she sings "Put the Blame on Mame" and delivers a dazzling performance as the enticing temptress Gilda. In the story of Gilda, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mun...
In the Black Forrest lives the charcoal burner Peter Munk. When he wants to marry the beautiful Lisbeth, his poverty become painfully conscious to him. He asks the Little Man of Glass who is a good spirit of the forest for help. He gets it but though...
In the Salinas Vally, in and around World War !, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in ...
A soaring musical drama that explores one man's rise to fame as a concert vocalist and subsequent exploration of his African roots. Paul Robeson stars as John Zinga, a British-born stevedore who is discovered by an influential impresario and becomes ...
Young Robert Wagner undergoes a dangerous rite of passage in this undersea adventure that depicts the steadfast virtues of familial loyalty. Set in the Gulf of Mexico off the West Coast of Florida, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef chronicles the life of spon...
One of the most unusual romances ever filmed, Portrait Of Jennie is the picture of sumptuous perfection. Starring Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane) and Oscar winner Jennifer Jones (A Farewell To Arms) in a "sensitive, appealing performance" (The Hollywood...
Film noir, a classic film style of the ′40s and ′50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood′s finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femmes fatales...
Virginia Cunningham (de havilland) appeared to have had an idyllic life - a nice home, a loving husband and prospects for a sriting career. But, something just wasn't right. Confusion, doubts about her husband's love, even violent outbursts led Virgi...
A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage.
As trapped as his captives, Mantee admits:"It tooks ...
Based on William Inge's classic play, Come Back, Little Sheba is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past.
Shirley Booth stars in an Academy Award winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc D...
Nick Condon (James Cagney) is the brash managing editor of Tokyo's English language newspaper when it breaks the startling news that Japan is planning to conquer China. After the double-murder of his ace reporter (Wallace Ford) and the reporter's wif...
In Rene clair's impressibly romantic portait of the crowded tenement of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman, This witty exploration of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, captures the fla...
Winner of 8 Academy Awards including 1953 Best Picture
It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, has heard of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to re...
When a small-town idealist.(Gary Cooper).goes to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist Jean Arthur, becomes theitargetiofiruthless businessmen and relatives, and finally decides to give his fortu...
During World War 2; a group of G.I. 's are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part; they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt; it bec...
Richard Burton stars in this exciting film about the courageous men who beld off notorious German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortres...
Part 1: Festival of the Nations Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. Includes the marathon, men's diving, and American track s...
One of the greatest artistic and technical achievements of the German silent cinema, Fritz Lang's monumental "Die Nibelungen" is a passionate retelling of Nordic legend, invested with all the resources of the colossal Ufa Studios. Scripted by Lang's ...
Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land -rich Texans love,swagger,connive and clash in a saga of family strife,racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the m...
Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." With admirable accuracy, the film follows...
Charlton Heston brings a muscular, physical and moral presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled slave galley, vengeance against his t...
Gil Carter (Henry Fonda) and Art Croft (Henry Morgan) ride into a town frustrated by the prevalence of cattle rustlers. Suddenly, word comes that a popular rancher has been murdered, which puts the already enraged town over the edge. When the spitefu...
A charming masterpiece!" - The Hollywood Reporter" Eloquent, sensitive, poignant" (The New York Times), this romantic and heartbreaking film has an "Absorbing power" (Los Angeles Times). Legendary Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca), in her firs...
James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small-town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him.
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Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much o...
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places... but in all the right shoes. In this much-anticipated movie event Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia...
The life of Joe, an anonymous assassin, takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe, a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Ko...
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him...
An old woman's disappearance during a train ride leads baffled young woman into a dizzying web of intrigue. Delicious mystery-comedy; Hitchcock at his best, with a witty script by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and wonderful contribution by Naunto...
One of Hitchcock's most discussed films. Retired police detective Stewart, who has a fear of heights, is hired by old school chum in San Francisco to keep an eye on his wife (Novak), eventually falls in love with his quarry and that's just the beginn...
'If you had it all to do over again, would you have married me?' Yes, guys, there is a right answer. That's something David Smith learns the hard way when bubbly better-half Ann queries him over breakfast. Also right are radiant Carole Lombard and ea...
Perceptive Americana intertwined with story of young girl who slowly comes to realize her beloved Uncle Charley is really the Merry Widow murderer; Cronyn steals film as nosy pulp-story fan. Scripted by Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, and Sally Benson...
An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the b...
YOUNG AND INNOCENT was an interesting movie where a writer is accused of murder and attempts sereral daring escapes to find the real murderer and prove his innocence. This movie sort of reminded me of one that I saw but didn't review. MURDER. As the ...